 When nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife and fork, and consumed a very substantial portion of mutton...  The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Seite 413von William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1862 - 678 Seiten
...Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was, at luncheon-time, or when nobody was near, most active with her knife and fork, " and consumed...believed she resembled other young ladies of fashion."§ Hear Mr. Lightfoot, the valet's, report of the Sylphide's clandestine procedure. * Noctes AmbrosianiB,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1849 - 454 Seiten
...nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights,...that being the proper phrase. There were, indeed, high-hacked Dutch chairs of the seventeeth century; there was a sculptured carved buffet of the sixteenth... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 Seiten
...nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights,...consumed a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets." — (Ch. xxxvii.) T One other example, from Miss Blanche's quizzical remarks during the courting scene... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 Seiten
...was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amiua, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife and fork, and rommmnd a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets." — (Ch. xxxvii.) T One other example, from... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 528 Seiten
...was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Aminn, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife and lork, and consumed a very substantial portion of mutton cutlets: in which piece of hypocrisy it is... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 462 Seiten
...nobody was near, our little Sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in the Arabian Nights,...hypocrisy it is believed she resembled other young ladle* of fashion. Pea and his uncle declined tii• refection, but they admired the dining-room with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 854 Seiten
...sylphide, who scarcely ate at dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the !Jhouls in the Arabian Nights, was most active with her knife...declined the refection, but they admired the dining-room wich fitting compliments, and pronounced it "very chaste," that being the proper phrase. There were,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 936 Seiten
...dinner more than the six grains of rice of Amina, the friend of the Ghouls in, the Arabian Nights—was most active with her knife and fork, and consumed...with fitting compliments, and pronounced it "very chaste,"—that being the proper phrase. There were, indeed, high-backed Dutch chairs of the seventeenth... | |
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