we have a great surprise for you — the first dish of strawberries." "So early!" said the old lady. "How very extravagant of you, but how very pleasant." She took one, and ate it slowly, while Mr. Dabney laid the ruined fork aside and assumed the expression... A Little of Everything - Página 84por Edward Verrall Lucas - 1912 - 239 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1845 - 688 páginas
...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Doctor Boteler said of strawberries: " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless he never did ;" and so, (if I might be judge,) God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than... | |
| 1845 - 732 páginas
...Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Doctor Boteler said of strawberries: " Doubtless c y8 C 8 ȄV 0 q k Lx1 K -E_ * pwę 4D J ^R ;" and so, (if I might be judge,) God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than... | |
| Massachusetts Horticultural Society - 1915 - 1178 páginas
...a basis of work is of highest rank, and recalls the old STRAWBERRY CULTURE 101 saying, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless he never did," and with the many varieties at our disposal, and with a better knowledge of their adaptabilities, intelligent... | |
| 1909 - 1106 páginas
...extravagant of you, but how very pleasant!" She took one, and ate it slowly, while Mr. Dabney laid the ruined fork aside and assumed the expression of...know," she asked Mr. Dabney, " who said that ? It was a favorite quotation of me fawther's." " Oh, yes," said Mr. Dabney, who had been cutting it out of articles... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 104 páginas
...originated with Dr. William Butler, who died in England in 1621. He declared of the strawberry : " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless he never did." She has a conviction that whatever good there is in us is wholly English, when the truth is that we... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 304 páginas
...extravagant of you, but how very pleasant." She took one, and ate it slowly, while Mr. Dabney laid the ruined fork aside and assumed the expression of...out of articles every June for years, "it was Bishop Berkeley." The situation was saved, for Grandmamma talked exclusively of fruit for the rest of the... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1910 - 304 páginas
...extravagant of you, but how very pleasant." She took one, and ate it slowly, while Mr. Dabney laid the ruined fork aside and assumed the expression of...out of articles every June for years, "it was Bishop Berkeley." The situation was saved, for Grandmamma talked exclusively of fruit for the rest of the... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 306 páginas
...extravagant of you, but how very pleasant." She took one, and ate it slowly, while Mr. Dabney laid the ruined fork aside and assumed the expression of...fawther's." "Oh yes," said Mr. Dabney, who had been if cutting it out of articles every June for years, "it was Bishop Berkeley." The situation was saved,... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 306 páginas
...extravagant of you, but how very pleasant." She took one, and ate it slowly, while Mr. Dabney laid the ruined fork aside and assumed the expression of...'"Doubtless,"' Grandmamma quoted, '"God could have rrade a better berry, but doubtless He never did.' Do you know," she asked Mr. Dabney, "who said that?... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1909 - 304 páginas
...how very pleasant." She took one, and ate it slowly, while Mr. Dabney laid the ruined fork aside arid assumed the expression of a reprieved assassin. "'Doubtless,'" Grandmamma quoted, "'God could have rrade a better berry, but doubtless He never did.' Do you know," she asked Mr. Dabney, "who said that?... | |
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