It was a purple passage, just as Victor's wrecking of the tea-house in the Bonin ❋ Unknown (2010)
As dead, which every tea-house in Peshawar knows, he is very interesting politically. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He dropped his dusty and threadbare knapsack at the tea-house and with her in hand started the climb at 7000 feet. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In addition, the festival boasts the local premieres of some stellar new films, an installation of a 100-foot film loop, an underground tea-house, and movies with live soundtracks! ❋ Melissa Silverstein (2008)
Map in hand, I stroll throughout the Japanese Garden, with it's lily pond, bridge-covered streams, waterfalls and serene pools, past the tea-house changing room -- replicated from larger one she saw in Kyoto -- and the statue of Buddha that caused such a sensation when it was transported through the streets of Canandaigua on it's arrival here. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I slept on the couch of my sister's apartment, not a fancy hotel, and often took my meals at a small tea-house in downtown Nairobi. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Soon after we came upon a little tea-house, and the Ainos showed me a straw package, and pointed to their open mouths, by which I understood that they wished to stop and eat. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In almost the smallest tea-house there are one or two rooms at the back, but all the life and interest are in the open front. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
After running cheerily for several miles my men bowled me into a tea-house, where they ate and smoked while I sat in the garden, which consisted of baked mud, smooth stepping-stones, a little pond with some goldfish, a deformed pine, and a stone lantern. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
He despises the intellects of women, but flirts in a town-bred fashion with the simple tea-house girls. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Tea-houses are of all grades, from the three-storied erections, gay with flags and lanterns, in the great cities and at places of popular resort, down to the road-side tea-house, as represented in the engraving, with three or four lounges of dark-coloured wood under its eaves, usually occupied by naked coolies in all attitudes of easiness and repose. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
A tea-house or chaya is a house at which you can obtain tea and other refreshments, rooms to eat them in, and attendance. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
As you eat, a tea-house girl, with this pail beside her, squats on the floor in front of you, and fills your rice bowl till you say, “Hold, enough!” ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
In these yadoyas every sound is audible, and I hear low rumbling of mingled voices, and above all the sharp Hai, Hai of the tea-house girls in full chorus from every quarter of the house. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Fine weather accompanied me through beautiful scenery from Ikari to Yokokawa, where I ate my lunch in the street to avoid the innumerable fleas of the tea-house, with a circle round me of nearly all the inhabitants. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
His first care, after being thus “Japanesed,” was to enter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner was as yet a problem to be solved. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She was glad to get to her corner in the tea-house, to feel herself in the cosmopolitan world once more, to drink her tea and eat strawberry shortcake and try to forget. ❋ Unknown (2003)
'That night, as I lay on a cushion in the tea-house that is in the ❋ Unknown (1998)