For my part, I deem the garb that is good enough for me, good enough for my geese and turkies ... apple and oyster-sauce included. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was so charmed with his patient, that he wrote home about her to his wife and family; he talked of nothing but Lady Rockminster to Samuel, when that youth came to partake of beefsteak and oyster-sauce and accompany his parent to the play. ❋ Unknown (2006)
We had the fish, which, as the kind reader may remember, I had brought down in a delicate attention to Mrs. Ponto, to variegate the repast of next day; and cod and oyster-sauce, twice laid, salt cod and scolloped oysters, formed parts of the bill of fare until I began to fancy that the Ponto family, like our late revered monarch ❋ Unknown (2006)
The parlor-maid, a new one, and not a great favorite with Joe, made matters worse by correcting him in an audible voice; and once, when somebody wanted oyster-sauce, she told Joe to hand it. ❋ Emma Gellibrand (N/A)
And he doesn't know if he's eating pea-soup or oyster-sauce. ❋ Robert Keable (1907)
Many sections are of a debatable rubric or even quite nondescript and unnameable; whereby the Book not only loses in accessibility, but too often distresses us like some mad banquet, wherein all courses had been confounded, and fish and flesh, soup and solid, oyster-sauce, lettuces, Rhine-wine and French mustard, were hurled into one huge tureen or trough, and the hungry Public invited to help itself. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
We had the fish, which, as the kind reader may remember, I had brought down in a delicate attention to Mrs. Ponto, to variegate the repast of next day; and cod and oyster-sauce, twice laid, salt cod and scolloped oysters, formed parts of the bill of fare until I began to fancy that the Ponto family, like our late revered monarch George II., had a fancy for stale fish. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
Samuel, when that youth came to partake of beef-steak and oyster-sauce and accompany his parent to the play. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
Send it to table with oyster-sauce in a small tureen. ❋ Eliza Leslie (1822)
Tom and his father had alighted at the Peacock at about seven in the evening; and having heard with unfeigned joy the paternal order, at the bar, of steaks and oyster-sauce for supper in half an hour, and seen his father seated cozily by the bright fire in the coffee-room with the paper in his hand, Tom had run out to see about him, had wondered at all the vehicles passing and repassing, and had fraternized with the boots and hostler, from whom he ascertained that the Tally-ho was a tip-top goer — ten miles an hour including stoppages — and so punctual that all the road set their clocks by her. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)
