| 1870 - 770 pages
...advance your haughty blazonry ! Make way, ye fellows in fustian ! Stand back, I charge ye ! [A march f "Royalty, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...choice saloon, hung with rose-coloured tapestry and illumined by chandeliers of crystal, where they were served from gold plate." [Curtain falls, amidst... | |
| 1870 - 764 pages
...advance your haughty blazonry ! Make way, ye fellows in fustian ! Stand back, I charge ye ! \-A march ! "Royalty, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...choice saloon, hung with rose-coloured tapestry and illumined by chandeliers of crystal, where they were served from gold plate." [Curtain falls, amidst... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 324 pages
...moving, walking on tiptoe. It was the supper hour — Soft hour which wakes the wish and melts the heart. Royalty, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...choice saloon, hung with rose-coloured tapestry and illumined by chandeliers of crystal, where they were served from gold plate. But the thousand less... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1870 - 420 pages
...moving, walking on tiptoe. It was the supper hour — Soft hour which wakes the wish and melts the heart. Royalty, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...by the host and hostess into a choice saloon, hung Avith rose-coloured tapestry and illumined by chandeliers of crystal, where they were served from gold... | |
| 1870 - 844 pages
...birds'-nest soup and puppy-dog pie), and that the supper was conducted in this way : — " Royalty, fcllowed by the imperial presence of ambassadors, and escorted...high degree, was ushered with courteous pomp by the hott and hostess into a choice saloon, hnog with rosecoloured tapestry and illumined by chandeliers... | |
| American periodicals - 1870 - 880 pages
...hope on birds'-nest soup and puppy-dog 'pie), and that the supper was conducted in this way : — " Royalty, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...of dazzling duchesses and paladins of high degree, wag ushered with courteous pomp by the host and hostess into a choice saloon, hung with rosecoloured... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...Her fair cheek was sealed with the gracious approbation of majesty " (ie the Queen kissed her). — " Royalty, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...dazzling duchesses and paladins of high degree, was escorted with courteous pomp," &c. (ie the Queen with the ambassadors and nobility went to supper).... | |
| English literature - 1873 - 778 pages
...fair cheek was sealed with the gracious approbation of majesty " (ie the Queen kissed her). — '• Royalty, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...dazzling duchesses and paladins of high degree, was escorted with courteous pomp," &c. (i*. the Queen with- the ambassadors and nobility went to supper).... | |
| Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...br*ri " Hoyalty, followed by the imperial presemr of ambassadors, and escorted by a group <>f daz/ling duchesses and paladins of high degree, was ushered with courteous pomp by the Inland hostess into a choice saloon, hung with rose-coloured tapestry and illumined by chandeliers... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1875 - 526 pages
...walking on tiptoe. It was the supper hour: Soft hour -which wakes the wish and melts the heart. Royally, followed by the imperial presence of ambassadors,...choice saloon, hung with rose-coloured tapestry and illumined by chandeliers of crystal, where they were served from gold plate. But the thousand less... | |
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