 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...teaparties. These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes—or noblesse—that is to say, such as kept their own cows and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock and went away about six, unless it was in winter... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 442 pages
...baskets with the contents. He takes us to a tea party attended by " the higher classes or noblesse, that is to say such as kept their own cows and drove their own wagons," where we can see the damsels knitting their own woolen stockings and the vrouws serving big... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors - United States - 1916 - 340 pages
...tea-parties. "These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse, that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in... | |
 | Teaching - 1918 - 688 pages
...In these happy days, fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse; that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company usually assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in winter-time,... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - Readers - 1918 - 552 pages
...tea-parties. These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse, that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...tea-parties. These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes — or noblesse — that is to say, such as kept their own cows and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock and went away about six, unless it was in winter... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - United States - 1923 - 634 pages
...two hundred pipes distant. He takes us to a tea party attended by " the higher classes or noblesse, that is to say, such as kept their own cows and drove their own wagons." At this gathering we can see the damsels knitting their woolen stockings and the vrouws (housewives)... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - American literature - 1922 - 648 pages
...teaparties. These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes — or noblesse — that is to say, such as kept their own cows and drove their so own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock and went away about six, unless it was... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - English language - 1925 - 638 pages
...In these happy days, fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse; that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company usually assembled at three o'clock and went away about six, unless it was in winter... | |
 | Isobel Davidson - Reading (Elementary) - 1925 - 512 pages
...tea parties. These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse, that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. The company commonly assembled at three o'clock, and went away about six, unless it was in... | |
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These fashionable parties were generally confined to the higher classes, or noblesse; that is to say, such as kept their own cows, and drove their own wagons. 
