10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FINGERGLASS»
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... is it pleasant on the evening of Fingerglass's festival to have Pollaky's young
man scrutinising my appearance as I hand my consort into the cab in which we
are conveyed to the theatre on the sly? But there are a host of small changes
which ...
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Pictures of German Life in XVth, XVIth, XVIIth, XVIIIth and ...
When at table, he presents a fingerglass to hislove alone,even though theremay
bemore distinguished ladiesthere; he offers, itistrue, the waterto others, but none
accept; his lady alonedoes not refuse. Thenhe places her chair, waits upon and ...
3
Hunted Down: A Story ; The Uncommercial Traveller : a Series ...
Your waiter, having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table
napkin folded cocked-hatwise (slowly, for something out of window engages his
eye), awhite wine-glass, a green wine-glass, ablue fingerglass, a tumbler, and a
...
4
The Young Lady at Home and in Society
The spectators probably would reason in this way : — “ You may have eaten with
a silver fork at home, but you are nolady.” A young lady, who stopped at a country
tavern to dine, perplexed the clumsy waiter by calling for a fingerglass, and ...
Louisa Caroline Tuthill, 1869
... and thinking himself – being Captainofa ship –ashaving plain precedence
overa mereislandKing, especially in the King's own house –the Captain coolly
proceeds towash hishands inthe punch bowl; – taking itIsuppose forahuge
fingerglass.
Atank is doubtless more desirable than a fingerglass; a microscope is a far more
puissant instrument than a lens; ut if you begin with finger-glass and lens you will
in due time find yourself wit-h microscope and tank ; whereas if you don't be in ...
never had the required combination of valor and long-suffering to wade through,
but merely dipped into it as into a huge fingerglass, more for the sake of flirting a
criticism on the public, than from the most remote hope of finding either ...
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Recollections, Historical, Political, Biographical, and ...
I was so relieved and delighted by that notice," said Monroe, " that, awkward, as I
know I am, after drinking the toast with my imperial patron, in returning the
decanter, instead of putting it on the table, I plunged it into a fingerglass of water,
and ...
Charles Jared Ingersoll, 1861
'Mrs. Bywank, might I make interest with you for a fingerglass?' Which being
supplied, the gentleman proceeded to a leisurely ablution of his fingers, and then
looked at the dish of fruit before him with grave consideration. 'Which is the best?
It had the same effect on me that a slow rubbing has on the edge of a fingerglass.
Then I appreciated the genius of my nurse. She let the delicate process of silent
recovery go on without comment or curious inspection, and I gathered health ...
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