... mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy, and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion... Washington Irving - Page 230by Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anna Randall Diehl - Readers - 1883 - 422 pages
...cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of sauce. In the porkers might be carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; each turkey daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wings, and, peradventure, a necklace of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, withits gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright... | |
| Literature - 1885 - 544 pages
...fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn-door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband,...necklace of savory sausages ; and even bright Chanticleer hi mself lay sprawling on his back in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter... | |
| Washington Irving - Americans - 1885 - 398 pages
...dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw can-eel out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing...gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1889 - 702 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy, relishing ham ; not a It:rkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1891 - 276 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent com potency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which bis chivalrous spirit disdained to... | |
| Washington Irving - 1891 - 140 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to... | |
| Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...Chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back in a side-disli, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1892 - 170 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer2 himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side-dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving... | |
| Washington Irving - Avarice - 1893 - 318 pages
...ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek...gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savoury sausages ; and even bright chanti' At the foot of which bubbled up a springof the softest an.i... | |
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