"Dining table" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... second-sized tent the dining table had been set up, and the chairs put around ready for the first meal, which would be supper. Mother Brown got the dishes out of the box, ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While • Laura Lee Hope
... of December, with two flat boats, destined for New-Orleans. In the afternoon of the day of Adair's arrival, the hotel at which he had stopped was invested by one hundred and twenty men, under Lieutenant Colonel Kingsbury, accompanied by one of Wilkinson's aids. Adair was dragged from the dining table, and conducted to head quarters, where he was put in confinement. They beat to arms through the streets; the battalion of the volunteers of Orleans, and a part of the regular troops, paraded through the city, and Workman, Kerr, and Bradford, were arrested and confined. Wilkinson ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... Hellman, comfortably seated at the brilliantly decorated round dining table, between Catherine, on one side, and a lady to whom he had not been introduced, contemplated the menu through his immovable eyeglass with satisfaction, unfolded his napkin, and continued the conversation with his hostess, a few places ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... a little diffident about accepting his employer's invitation to dinner. Brought up in the country in comparative poverty, he felt afraid that he should show, in some way, his want of acquaintance with the etiquette of the dining table. But he had a better than ordinary education, and, having read diligently whatever books he could get hold of, possessed a fund of general information which enabled him to converse intelligently. Then his modest self-possession ...
— Try and Trust • Horatio Alger
... discovery," cried the newcomer—"a discovery!" and he brought his hand down so heavily upon the dining table that ...
— In the Mahdi's Grasp • George Manville Fenn
... our supper! The two girls sat at the big dining table, and sipped their chocolate, and laughed and talked, and I had the skeleton of a whole turkey on a newspaper that Susan spread on ...
— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders |
