"Sugarless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rapid taps against the edges of the finely lacquered smoking-boxes. Pickled and spiced fruits are handed round on trays of quaint and varied shapes. Then transparent china tea-cups, no larger than half an egg-shell, make their appearance, and the ladies are offered a few drops of sugarless tea, poured out of toy kettles, or a sip of saki—(a spirit made from rice which it is the custom to serve hot, in elegantly shaped vases, long-necked like a ...
— Madame Chrysantheme • Pierre Loti |
