This is a very unconventional after-dinner speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

For the after-dinner coffee a very small spoon is used.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

No more brilliant after-dinner speaker ever existed than.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

He would supply some after-dinner gas for their enjoyment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grieving For A Pet? I Won't Roll My Eyes.] Reference

They were responded to with a very fair display of after-dinner wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

The after-dinner half-hour of rest had been a time when the crew of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judy of York Hill] Reference

We just had dinner, and I presume I should make an after-dinner speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference

In the after-dinner salon, madeleines are served with linden-flower tea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Life] Reference

But it leaves grey areas, such as consultancy and after-dinner speaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dean Richards still in the dark about 'bloodgate' ban details] Reference

When the prospector had reached his after-dinner cigar, he said abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

Serve in chilled punch cups, with after-dinner coffee spoons for the fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference

Old Government Java does make a very satisfactory cup of after-dinner coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakfast Dainties] Reference

This is not an after-dinner speech for which most central bankers would volunteer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Hoenig, Federal Reserve Governor, Is Fed Up] Reference

And let's throw Hitler into the mix; I hear he was an interesting after-dinner speaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life on a Plate: Noel Fielding] Reference

Itzhak Perlman's after-dinner performance on the violin was virtuosic and all too brief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dinner With the Queen] Reference

Mr. Kent Maclin took his hat and stick and started for his customary after-dinner stroll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Maybe Ben could even pick up a cake and some candles for a small after-dinner celebration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Punishments] Reference

He dodged Peter this evening to escape their usual after-dinner talk, and went to his room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Triflers] Reference

Left to party the night away were a crowd of after-dinner dancers in the White House lobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dinner With the Queen] Reference

The attention of the AMERICAN AMBASSADOR has been called to the danger of after-dinner speaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference

It was only a small mess of pottage -- some chops, a cup of real coffee, some after-dinner mints.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Take away this peculiarity and you take away two-thirds of their excellent after-dinner speaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

Rev.G. Paul Musselman spoke briefly and was followed by the after-dinner speaker, Mr. Al Bergstrom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference

With an empty stomach it takes a very long time to get into such torpor -- drowsiness -- as compels the after-dinner sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure] Reference

"Any one who knows Colonel Maitland is aware that he is exceedingly annoyed if awakened from his after-dinner nap," I urged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

I want you to go to Oakley to-morrow, at the hour when Mr. John Arthur is always supposed to be taking his after-dinner nap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

I have not brought any of the statistics with me, for fear some know-nothing might cry at our after-dinner speech 'Figures.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

The after-dinner coffee found at most of the first-class restaurants in New York, such as the Brunswick, etc., contains chicory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakfast Dainties] Reference

Your broker likes to talk about his trades over his after-dinner cigar, and to tell you, in the horsy, professional jargon of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Once in the midst of an after-dinner speech, he paused to make an aside to his friend, J. Hollister Lynch, "Am I talking too long?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference

He had long been anxious to see this famous after-dinner orator and statesman, and here was a chance which might not come soon again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference

They are much alike in all their appointments, but there are fewer tea-drinkers and after-dinner sleepers (and snorers) at the Metropole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference