Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 24, 2025
"The dessert, which may be fruit, should be ready before the meal on the sideboard, with the plates and finger-bowls. When the last course before it is taken off and the crumbs removed, there are no plates on the table at all; it is the one time when it is cleared. So all you have to do is to lay down the plates and finger-bowls with the fruit-knives and spoons and pass the fruit.
The remains of the turkey, a pair of finger-bowls, his old hat all these came hastily into his mind, and were dismissed. He had nothing of value on him. All had been pawned long ago. Stay! The gold locket studded with diamonds and rubies, which contained Alice's photograph. The one memento of her that he had kept, even when the pangs of starvation were upon him.
Fancy doylies of fine linen embroidered with silk are sometimes brought in with the finger-bowls; but these are not for utility, the dinner napkin doing service, while the embroidered "fancy" adds a dainty bit of effect to the table decoration. China, Glassware, Cutlery, Silverware, etc. Chinaware for the dinner service should be of good quality.
It would have been thoughtful if Ruth had waited and lit her fuse when the finger-bowls came on. It seemed a shame to me to waste two perfectly good courses, and unnecessarily sensational to interrupt the ceremony of a Sunday dinner. But it was impossible to sit there through two protracted changes of plates.
He led them to a little Chinese restaurant where a dumb-waiter with a pigtail noiselessly served them with very good things to eat though Avrillia said the prices were outrageous. As they were dipping their eyelashes daintily in the finger-bowls, Pirlaps said, "Well, Sara, shall we go with Avrillia, or would you rather stay here?" "Oh, let's go!" cried Sara.
"I wanted to call your attention," said the Governor, "to the Casino, a place where you can provide for the inner man or any other man. You can here secure soft-shell crabs, boiled lobster, low-neck clams, Hamburger steaks, chicken salad, miscellaneous soups, lobster salad with machine-oil on it, Neapolitan ice-cream, Santa Cruz rum, Cincinnati Sec, pie, tooth-picks, and finger-bowls."
She has not forgotten, for more than once I surprised a light in her eyes as though she were laughing. She has not, it is certain, told even her mother and sister. Somehow this fact invest her character with a charm as of subterranean roominess and secrecy. Women who tell everything are like finger-bowls of clear water. But it is Sylvia that pleases me.
The air was thick with letters for a few days afterwards. Unseen hands played Gluck and Beethoven on finger-bowls and clock-shades; but all men felt that Psychic Life was a mockery without materialised Kittens. Even Lone Sahib shouted with the majority on this head.
George keep on the move. With the shifting of the cloth and the placing of the coasters the nuts, crusts of bread, and finger-bowls being within easy reach most of this desultory talk ceased. Something more delicate, more human, more captivating than sport, finance, or politics; more satisfying than all the poets who ever lived, filled everybody's mind.
Last of all the notched finger-bowls in which to cool the delicate, pipe-stem glasses; and then, and only then, did the real dinner begin. As to the guests, this particular feast being given to the most distinguished literary genius the country had yet produced, certainly the most talked of those who were bidden were, of course, selected with more than usual care: Mr.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking