Small dinners for not less than six or more than ten guests are always the most pleasant, and for those of moderate means or those unaccustomed to dinner-giving are by far the most suitable.

Dinner is surely late tonight.

Ardelia's dinner was a Christmas poem.

The dinner had been sumptuousveal cutlets, a cut from the joint, dessert, coffee and liqueurs.

By the time our dinner was overone of my plentiful wholesome meals, with some lettuce and radishes and young onions I had bought the night beforewe were chatting together like old friends.

The dinner was rather gayer than might have been expected.

Dinner was always a doubtful meal.

Dinner was a miserable failure in that family, which usually had much to compare, much to impart, much badinage and laughter to distribute.

The dinner was invariably gentle, persuasive, a thoughtful gastronomic achievement.

" Both Mr. Jerome and Mr. Hecksher told me that I must not disappoint Mr. Belmont, for his dinners were splendid affairs.

"Dinner is not quite ready, colonel," said the landlord.

His dinner was commonly three hard eggs, with a draught of water.

" Accordingly we dined together, though, as far as he was concerned, the dinner was rather an empty ceremony.

The first man I met after dinner was Hunnicott, and when I had made him my broker in the real estate affair we fell to talking about the railroad steal.

That little dinner you gave us was first-class in every respect, and the simple refreshments you had this evening were very pretty and graceful.

This dinner was so excellent, so well cooked and served, that, although we despise with a deep-rooted scorn the wretched class of individuals who make their dinner their main object in life, we nevertheless consider that we are only paying a merited tribute to the chef in saying that the cooking was always of a high standard, and quoting as a specimen the evening's menu (May 1): SOUP.

The dinner was at y'e first course a peece of Brawne.

The dinner was an imposing rite, served with solemn ceremonies by ministering waiters.

The sixpenny dinners, as also the plain and "high" teas, were truly a marvel of excellence, daintiness, and economy, and the queue of the patient "waiters," sometimes 40 yards long, amply testified to their popularity.

Since dinner is overdinner at the godless hour of half-past fourI suppose we must call it evening.

"A young man's dinner isn't worth all this bother.

The dinner was publick.' Sept. 18.

The dinner was a very quiet businessa couple of steady-going country gentlemen, with their wives and daughters, a son or two more or less dashing and sportsmanlike in style, the rector and his wife, Captain Sedgewick and Miss Nowell.

Still, that first dinner was a trial to my nerves, though I do not remember that the trial interfered with my appetite.

The breakfast of the Icelanders consists of skyr, a kind of sour, coagulated milk, sometimes mixed with fresh milk or cream, and flavoured with the juice of certain berries; their usual dinner is dried fish, skyr, and rancid butter; and skyr, cheese, or porridge, made of Iceland moss, forms their supper; bread is rarely tasted by many of the Icelanders, but appears as a dainty at their rural feasts with mutton, and milk-porridge.