"Green tea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and three lemons, and place in a punch bowl with the juice only of nine other lemons, add two pounds of sugar, and let these ingredients stand several hours. Then add one quart each of green tea, Jamaica rum, brandy, claret, a pint of Curacao, and allow it to stand another hour. Then place in the punch bowl with a large block of ice, and pour ...
— Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures • Joe Tilden
... snored as loud as a dozen bears growling away in concert, without in the slightest degree disturbing each other. One night, however, a piece of salt tongue had stuck somewhere on its downward passages or Mrs Ragget had given me too strong a bowl of green tea, as a special mark of her favour, or from some other unaccountable cause, I could not for some time get to sleep. I found out that Sam Short did snore, and most lustily and variously too, with notes resembling what one might fancy a broken-winded bagpipe ...
— Dick Onslow - Among the Redskins • W.H.G. Kingston
... young leaves of the common currant-bush, gathered as soon as they put out, and dried on tin, can hardly be distinguished from green tea. ...
— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child
... shining foliage and knitting tree to tree, attest the irrepressible growth of vegetation, which flings a many-coloured veil of blossom and leaf over root, branch, and stem. A fairy lake glows with the pink and crimson blossoms of the noble Victoria Regia, the huge leaves like green tea-trays floating on the water, where a central fountain adds prismatic radiance to the scenic effect of the splendid lilies. Climbing palms and massive creepers, splashed with orange, scarlet, and gold, tumble in masses from lofty branches, and the dazzling Bougainvillea flings curtains ...
— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings |
