At the dinner-table were ten officers and one lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Water is the staple drink of the American dinner-table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etiquette] Reference

It was a brilliant dinner-table, for the exciting debate at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

The dinner-table was oval, and Sally found herself seated between the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

Why is this a subject for dinner-table conversation, in and of itself?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall-to-Wall Bullshit] Reference

The French have some dinner-table conventions which to us seem strange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference

And F. himself gravely inquired of me this evening, at the dinner-table, if I had a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

But in most homes, impeachment is not a frequent topic of dinner-table conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fallout] Reference

In the Italian houses a handful of them is put down to each cover at the dinner-table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Something was said at the dinner-table again about the doctor's promise to read to Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

The laughter and chatter of the dinner-table gave these two a sense of personal isolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

She clapped her hands as she peered across the dinner-table to the row before the chimney.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

The etiquette of the dinner-table has a prominence commensurate with the dignity of the ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference

At a dinner-table in France private chats are very quickly dispelled by some thoughtful moderator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference

It was also at Philadelphia, and at a dinner-table, comprising several members of the Congress, that La.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

A gown that would pass muster in a crowd, may not stand the calm scrutiny of the dinner-table fourteen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etiquette] Reference

The precious piece of paper was displayed to the wondering mother and brothers at the dinner-table that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference

If I sat down at a dinner-table, my neighbour left his chair, and the others would say, 'He fears to sit by you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

Yet, although so fine, most of the passengers were obliged to leave the dinner-table, and return to their cabins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

When a kindly servant brings a rug to wind round your legs under the dinner-table on the balcony, gladly accept that rug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

On such a walk, how easy to pick one's self up after lunch, throw the dinner-table away, and trot on to the next village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

The sun was flaming to westward, and Hopwood had moved the dinner-table out into the patio, and was setting dinner there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference

The conversation at the dinner-table should be general, unless the company is large, and the table too long to admit of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etiquette] Reference

Every Spitzer profile mentions the dinner-table scene at his parents 'home in the exclusive Riverdale section of the Bronx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spitzer in Exile] Reference

So have I seen politicians, mortal enemies in the House, hob-nobbing together at the dinner-table of some hospitable Impartial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893] Reference

Marshal was tainted with the prevalent vice of the day, and scarcely ever left the dinner-table in a state fit for public business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

Five years later his central task is to ensure that Japan's Lost Decade doesn't make his dinner-table musings look eerily prescient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Decade] Reference

When speaking of Wordsworth's absorption of all the talk at a dinner-table, Moore says, -- "But I was well pleased to be a listener.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

If guests cannot go away from a dinner-table feeling better pleased with themselves, that campaign of hospitality has been a failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference

I did not go downstairs again that night; but hearing them laugh at the dinner-table over some experience of Mr.G. 's, found it was this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

Sometimes he made use of Archie Phillips 'gift, and caught fish off the rocks, much to the advantage of the old housekeeper's dinner-table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference