dish fit for a king
Example Sentences
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An onion salad, dressed only with salt, vinegar, and pepper, seemed a dish fit for a king; but last night the soldiers quartered near made a raid on the garden and took them all.
From Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Cable, George Washington
An onion salad, dressed only with salt, vinegar, and pepper, seemed a dish fit for a king, but last night the soldiers quartered near made a raid on the garden and took them all.
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
It was a magic performance, and when amber tears from a slice of lemon were shed over it, lo! a dish fit for a king.
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
In twenty minutes they were done, the heads were cut away, the skin with its load of scales peeled off, and our hungry hunters sat down to a dish fit for a king.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Davis, J. Watson
He was only satisfied on one point, that it was delicious—a dish fit for a king.
From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill
