Quails
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In the silence
quails
were heard calling in the vineyard, and the dull, distant sound of treadmills near the Via Salaria.
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The red claws of lobsters hung over the dishes; rich fruit in open baskets was piled up on moss; there were
quails
in their plumage; smoke was rising; and in silk stockings, knee-breeches, white cravat, and frilled shirt, the steward, grave as a judge, offering ready carved dishes between the shoulders of the guests, with a touch of the spoon gave you the piece chosen.
The large room was emptying; the stove-pipe, in the shape of a palm-tree, spread its gilt leaves over the white ceiling, and near them, outside the window, in the bright sunshine, a little fountain gurgled in a white basin, where; in the midst of watercress and asparagus, three torpid lobsters stretched across to some
quails
that lay heaped up in a pile on their sides.
By this admirable arrangement, whole flocks of pigeons, certain bevies of quails, shoals of flatfish, bass, and sundry woodcock, found their way into the presence of the company.
They will be as tender as
quails!
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