"Delf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he did the honours of his small wooden cottage at Cedar Creek as finely as if it had been his own ancestral mansion of Dunore. Their delf cups might have been Dresden, the black ware teapot solid silver, the coarse table-cloth damask—for the very air which he spread around the breakfast arrangements. One might have fancied that he infused an orange-pekoe flavour into the rough muddy congou for which ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... at my chaynee!" said the widow, clasping her hands, and casting a look of despair at the shattered delf that lay around her; "look ...
— Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover |
