 ... he has had the surprising sagacity to discover that apples will make pies, and it is a question if, in the violence of his efforts, we do not get one of apples instead of having both of beefsteaks. If the ladies can put up with such entertainment,...  Life of Washington, v.3-4 - Page 474by Washington Irving - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...If the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates, once tin, but now iron, (not become so by the labor of scouring,) I shall be happy to see them ; and am, dear Doctor, yours, &c." The course and condition of affairs, and the views and feelings... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1857 - 570 pages
...beefsteaks. If the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates once tin but now iron (not become so by the labor of scouring),...equipage at head-quarters, every thing was conducted with stnct etiquette and decorum, and we make no doubt the ladies in question were handed in with as much... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 622 pages
...bee&fe**4 ,• the ladies can put up with such entertainment, ana » submit to partake of it on plates once tin but now iron (not become so by the labor of scouring),...fare and poor the table equipage at head-quarters, everything was conducted with strict etiquette and decorum, and we make no doubt the ladies in question... | |
 | National Institute for the Promotion of Science - 1857 - 92 pages
...the ladies can put up with such an entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates, once tin, but now iron — not become so by the labor of scouring — I shall be happy to see them, &c." "GEORGE WASHINGTON." A treaty with Turkey with seal and slate-colored silk band attached to it.... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates, once tin, now iron, (not become so by the labor of scouring,) I shall be happy to see them, and am, dear Doctor, yours, &c." Lafayette, who had already on several occasions 1779.] INVITATION... | |
 | E. Cecil - Presidents - 1859 - 292 pages
...beefsteaks. If the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates once tin, but now iron (not become so by the labor of scouring), I shall be happy to see them; and am, dear Doctor, yours, &c." No doubt those ladies were pleased and proud to dine at head-quarters;... | |
 | Augusta Blanche Berard - United States - 1859 - 230 pages
...up with suoh entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates, once tin, but now iron 'riot become so by the labor of scouring), I shall be happy to see them ; and am, dear Doctor, Yours " Repeat the extract from a letter of General Washington. REVIEW QCESTIOXS.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 794 pages
...If the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates, once tin but now iron (not become so by the labor of scouring), I shall be happy to see them ; and am, dear doctor, yours," &c. 1 Montfaucon, in his Antiquity Explained, gives an account of the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 788 pages
...If the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on platee, once tin but now iron (not become so by the labor of scouring), I shall be happy to see them ; and am, dear doctor, yours," &c. 1 Montfauçon, in his Antiquity Explained, gives an account of the... | |
 | William Watson Waldron - Fordham, New York (City). - 1864 - 126 pages
...the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates — once tin, but now iron — (not become so by the labor of scouring) I shall be very happy to see them. I am, dear Dr., your most ob't servant, GEOBGE Thinking that these letters,... | |
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