... Empire style, silver stands supporting finely cut glass bowls in various sizes, which were filled with white orchids and asparagus fern. Nothing could have been lovelier than this special design, which is reproduced by Mappin and Webb, giving a much better ...

... ed elsewhere, indeed the superfluity of fluid is apt to he somewhat exasperating. Showers are just now in fashion, like asparagus and strawberries they came in very early, but we are nothing if not luxurious in these century-end days. It will be the very ...

... charmingly gowned in black satin, trimmed with Venetian point. She held in her hand a posy of damask roses, relieved by asparagus, fern, and other foliage, the gift of the society. The Duchess of Teck, who was to present the prizes, accompanied by Princess ...

... Pontifex, Leonard, and myself. The dinner was simple, consisting of salmon, lamb, and chicken, cutlets, with early peas and asparagus. A littlo light Sauterne, which his reverence recommended in preference to sherry, as leaving the palate clean for the port ...

... were sent off to bed Lord Rockminster constituted himself butler, and Percy Lestrange handed round the pheasants' eggs and asparagus and such things so that there was no alien ear in the room. Lionel Moore, being less familiar with the house, was exempted ...