Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
Nor was that most wonderful object of domestic art called trifle wanting, with its charming confusion of cream and cake and almonds and jam and jelly and wine and cinnamon and froth; nor yet the marvellous floating-island, name suggestive of all that is romantic in the imaginations of youthful palates.
Nor was that most wonderful object of domestic art called trifle wanting, with its charming confusion of cream and cake and almonds and jam and jelly and wine and cinnamon and froth; nor yet the marvellous floating-island, name suggestive of all that is romantic in the imaginations of youthful palates.
It was so palatable he ate it all up even licking the plates; he had never been told it was bad manners to lick your plate. Then he saw a floating-island pudding, with the whites of eggs heaped up high and dotted with candied cherries, floating on the custard underneath. He ate part of this, getting his head covered with eggs. Next he spied several cakes covered with icing which he licked off.
She began to count how much money her mother owed her for eggs which reminded her to look into the nests; and when, in spite of a clucking remonstrance, she put her hand under a feathery breast and touched the hot smoothness of a new-laid egg, she felt perfectly happy. "I guess I'll go and get some floating-island," she thought. "Oh, I hope they haven't eaten it all up!"
And with that, she settled herself down on the floor, with all her little ruffles and flounces and billows of muslin heaping and curling themselves about her, till her pretty head and shoulders were like a new and charming sort of floating-island in the midst. And it came to pass that presently the talk drifted round to vanities and vexations, on this wise.
So when we concluded it might be safe to call each other Lois and Euan, Lana's curiosity leaped over all bounds to the barriers of impertinence. There was, as usual, a respectable company gathered at Croghan's that afternoon; and a floating-island and tea and a punch.
But neither the next evening, which was Friday, nor for Fridays thereafter, would she venture down for fish dinner, dining cozily up in her room off milk toast and a fluffy meringue dessert prepared especially by Mrs. Plush. It was floating-island night downstairs. Henry puzzled a bit over the Fridays.
Nor was that most wonderful object of domestic art called trifle wanting, with its charming confusion of cream and cake and almonds and jam and jelly and wine and cinnamon and froth; nor yet the marvellous floating-island, name suggestive of all that is romantic in the imaginations of youthful palates.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking