thick tea

Example Sentences

• "Her appearance, her dress, her manners; what they were pleased to term her "stand-offishness"; her shortcomings as a housekeeper; her ignorance in the matter of mending under-linen; her novel-reading and piano- playing — all these had been toothsome morsels, far more enjoyable than the heavy pies, the thick chops, and the sardines which figured in that horrible Mesopotamian meal known as a "thick tea;" and had been picked to the very bone."
• "He can read them in a pleasing manner, to his wife and his family, after a five o'clock thick tea, and the reviews will be enriched with the interesting and improving observation made during the perusals."
• ""It's unnatural in a gell like Marian Ashurst to think so much o' money and What it brings," would be a frequent remark at one of those private Helmingham institutions* known as "thick teas.""
• "This was used both at meal-times and for a reading room, breakfasts with tea, dinners, whereat roast-beef and plum-pudding were frequent visitors, "thick teas," and suppers of beer and cheese, supplying the bodily, as a supply of English newspapers satisfied the mental appetites of the inmates."
• "The month's housekeeping wound up that night with a "thick tea" in honor of Lieutenant Worthington's arrival, which taxed all the resources of the little establishment. ... fresh eggs for an omelette, and chickens' breasts smothered in cream ..."
• "So many informal meals are required during the summer months, whether as light refreshments at tennis parties, or more substantial "thick teas” and “ early suppers,” that a constant change of sweet dishes is desirable."