 | Mariana Starke - Europe - 1826 - 560 pages
...confines. )oa then receive au order lor the money you Jive feet high must absolutely sit up all Bight, supported by pillows; and this is, in fact, the •way...we found no cause for complaint; meat, bread, and wine (somewhat like Hock), beer, soup, and bouillie, sour - crout, stewed prunes, coffee, and milk,... | |
 | Mariana Starke - Europe - 1828 - 674 pages
...sleep comfortably either here or in any part of Germany ; the beds, which are very narrow, being placed in wooden frames, or boxes, so short, that any person...which the Germans sleep. With respect to provisions, there is no cause for complaint ; meat, bread, and wine, (somewhat like Hock) beer, soup, and bouillie,... | |
 | Mariana Starke - Europe - 1833 - 926 pages
...comfortably either here, or in any part of Germany ; the beds, which are very narrow, being placed in wooden frames, or boxes, so short, that any person...which the Germans sleep. With respect to provisions, there is no cause for complaint ; meat, bread, and wine (somewhat like Hock), beer, soup, and bouilli,... | |
 | Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick - Germany - 1908 - 380 pages
...which are very narrow, being placed in wooden frames or boxes, so short that any person who happened to be above five feet high must absolutely sit up all night supported by pillows ; and this, in fact, is the way in which the Germans sleep." I think this is a statement that will be as surprising... | |
 | William Edward Mead - History - 1914 - 644 pages
...Germany: the beds, which are very narrow, being placed in wooden frames, or boxes, so short that any body who happens to be above five feet high must absolutely...is, in fact, the way in which the Germans sleep." * As for food, travelers were advised to carry provisions between towns, for there was no certainty... | |
 | Edwin Hermann Zeydel - German literature - 1918 - 348 pages
...Germany: the beds, which are very narrow, being placed in wooden frames, or boxes, so short that anybody who happens to be above five feet high must absolutely...is, in fact, the way in which the Germans sleep." 1 Neueste Reise durch England, Schottland und Irland. Tubingen, 1807. p. 83. 1 England, etc. Vol. V,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1888 - 708 pages
...people cannot sleep comfortably in any part of Germany ; the beds, which are very narrow, being placed in wooden frames or boxes, so short that any person...is, in fact, the way in which the Germans sleep.' Doubtless his explanation is the correct one ; but those who are not accustomed to sleep in a sedentary... | |
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Villach is, however, clean and good; though tall people cannot sleep comfortably either here or in any part of Germany ; the beds, which are very narrow, being placed in wooden frames, or boxes, so short, that any person •who happens to be above five... 