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... nobbut and graadely. Mr. Carmichael, instead of seeing in dialect something to be only suggested in fiction, like onion in salad, has saturated his story with it, condemning his readers to the labour of translation as they go along, aided by an occasional ...

Published: Saturday 08 March 1890
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1203 | Page: 11 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A PISCATORIAL BLUEBEARD

... nobody saw them) sup off bread and cheese and porter, spirituel poets partial to tripe and (cli hostibus black- puddings. A salad full of onions has ere now attracted an reithetic young reotor who might antecedently be supposed superior to such horrors ...

THE BARBER IN THE MARCHÉ-AUX-GRAINS

... summoned. 'The poor monsieur dined with madame and his Compagnon at five. Totage St. Germain cotelette de mouton sauce Bearnaise Salade St. Julicn, one pint. That is all.' ''Then a doctor, red-faced and pompous, Van de Putte by name, bustled in. The man and ...

OVER AN ABSINTHE BOTTLE

... a dozen crabs, ten dozen eggs, ten hams, eight young pigs, twenty wild ducks, fifteen fish of four different kinds, eight salads, four dozen bottles each of claret, burgundy, and champagne for pastry, eight plum-puddings, and for dessert, bushels of nuts ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3725 | Page: 20 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

UNFAIRLY WON.: CHAPTER VI

... yet I cannot offend Delvayne He puts his daughter from his knee, and stands up, looking much disturbed. Lobster-olaws in the salad says Mr. Lisle's voice, break 'ing in upon the seriousness of the conversation with a strange sgrotesqueness. Lobster and ...