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Updated: May 5, 2025

Hot oysters, salads, boned turkey, quail, and hot terrapin, with wines ad libitum, are offered by the wealthy; but this is a difficult table to keep in order when ten men call at one o'clock, and forty at four, and none between. The best table is one which is furnished with boned turkey, jellied tongues, and pft,s, sandwiches, and similar dishes, with cake and fruit as decorative additions.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages

So with Oliver; he had lived a little while, twenty-six years, perhaps, when pft like that! he became almost as a baby again. He could remember how to talk, but not much more. He had lost his belongings they were gone from the lobe of the brain where he had stored them; but HE was not gone, no part of the real HIMSELF was lacking.

Booth Tarkington - The Guest of Quesnay