 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - 572 דפים
...look very mean near hers. She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was...extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. But... | |
 | Emil Reich - 1908 - 354 דפים
...worth above a hundred thousand pounds sterling. "She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely tedious. . . . The Sultana seemed in very good humour and talked to me with the utmost civility. Sometimes the... | |
 | Ada De la Mare Ingpen - 1909 - 484 דפים
...look very mean near hers. She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was...extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. But... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - 1914 - 656 דפים
...look very mean near hers. She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table, but one at a time, and was...extremely tedious. But the magnificence of her table answered very well to that of her dress. The knives were of gold, the hafts set with diamonds. But... | |
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European queen has half the quantity ; and the empress's jewels, though very fine, would look very mean near hers. She gave me a dinner of fifty dishes of meat, which (after their fashion) were placed on the table but one at a time, and was extremely... 
