 | John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst of those several bowls filled with gravy : in vain I tried to hold, in imitation of my host, this substitute... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst of those several bowls filled with gravy : in vain I tried to hold, in imitation of my host, this substitute... | |
 | 1837 - 486 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst of those several bowls filled with gravy : in vain I tried to hold, in imitation of my host, this substitute... | |
 | 1839 - 428 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst...this substitute for a fork between the thumb and the two first fingers of the right hand ; for the chop-sticks slipped aside every moment, leaving the little... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 212 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst...this substitute for a fork, between the thumb and the two first fingers of the right hand ; for the chopsticks slipped aside every moment, leaving behind... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 338 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst...this substitute for a fork, between the thumb and the two first fingers of the right hand ; for the chopsticks slipped aside every moment, leaving behind... | |
 | Thomas Allom, George Newenham Wright - 1843 - 372 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst...this substitute for a fork between the thumb and the two first fingers of the right hand ; for the chopsticks slipped aside every moment, leaving behind... | |
 | William B. Langdon, Nathan Dunn - 1843 - 176 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst...imitation of my host, this substitute for a fork, between my thumb and the two first fingers of the right hand ; for the chopsticks slipped aside every moment,... | |
 | 1845 - 376 Seiten
...together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst...this substitute for a fork between the thumb and the two first fingers of the right hand, for the chopsticks slipped aside every moment, leaving behind... | |
 | George Vasey - 1847 - 100 Seiten
...on the other, little balls made of sharks' fins, pounded shrimps, and maggots of an immense size. " I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst...several bowls filled with gravy. In vain I tried, in imitation of my host, to hold their wretched substitute for a fork between the thumb and the first... | |
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... together with a knife that had a long, narrow, and thin blade, formed the whole of my eating apparatus. I had great difficulty in seizing my prey in the midst of these several bowls filled with gravy ; in vain I tried to hold, in imitation of my host,... 
