"Bowls" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... filled with gay young voices and merry preparations for the entertainment of friends. Stands of scarlet droopers were set on the porch, the hot-house flowers being placed against the tapestry and the old armor; bowls of drink were brewed and set to cool, and two o'clock found Dame Dickenson in sober black silk, with a canny eye for the refreshments, and myself in black as well, and a state of what might be ...
— Nancy Stair - A Novel • Elinor Macartney Lane
... precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second-best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned one he gave it a high ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... Olaf: 'We need not fear Swedish horse-eaters;[36] they will be more eager to lick up what is in their sacrificial bowls than to board ...
— The Red True Story Book • Various
... and a good-sized table, upon which, at meal-time, might be noticed a table-cloth, not of diaper, but, what served equally well, the broad smooth silken leaves of the plantain. There were cups, too, and plates, and bowls, and dishes, and bottles, of the light gourd-shell (Crescentia cujete), some of the bottles holding useful liquids, and corked with the elastic pith of a palm. Other vessels of a boat-shape ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid
... if of yore Up-piled upon the cellar-floor, Cask rose on cask, a goodly store, From the best slopes and vintage; now The swilling of our lords, I trow, Unceasing, drains the very lees. E'en the Town-council must give out Its liquor;—bowls and cups they seize; And 'neath the table lies the drunken rout. Now must I pay, whate'er betides; Me the Jew spares not; he provides Anticipation-bonds which feed Each year on that which must succeed; The swine are never fattened ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
|
