62 Metaphors for table

His Tables are a kind of Poetical Logarithms, which being divided into several Squares, and all inscribed with so many incoherent Words, appear to the Eye somewhat like a Fortune-telling Screen.

A table drawn out center and within range of the gas-range was a blotch in the gloom, three figures surrounding it with arms that moved vaguely among a litter of dishes.

When I consider how, amid the stillness of my chambers, Nippers would sometimes impatiently rise from his seat, and stooping over his table, spread his arms wide apart, seize the whole desk, and move it, and jerk it, with a grim, grinding motion on the floor, as if the table were a perverse voluntary agent, intent on thwarting and vexing him; I plainly perceive that for Nippers, brandy and water were altogether superfluous.

Now, this table is really a scandal.

The upper part of it remained in shadow, but every table was a centre of rosy light, illuminating faces and jewels and napery.

V. The Round-Table was merely an interrogation covering a forlorn hope.

The crew were chosen from amongst those whom Banks had met and known in their own infamous haunts, and his own table-steward was a haggard-faced man, who gobbled at you when he tried to talk.

The table was about 2-1/2 x 1-1/2 feet.

[Sidenote: Les Jeunes Filles] Of course the Baronne had arranged for the Vicomte to take me in; and our table was pink and white carnations.

Soft-footed lackeys carried viands and wines, and the table was a mingling of silver and roses.

The Round Table of Mahmud cannot be altogether a figment of the imagination.

"I told you, if you remember, that there was a table in front of the pulpit: this table was their altar; it was covered with a very white cloth: in the middle of it were a plate of bread and two chalices of wine.

A table is a horrible thing to accompany one on a mile walk.

The straining-table is an oblong shallow wooden frame, in the shape of a trough, but all composed of open woodwork.

Even the dinner-table is no bad school for one naturally bright and amiable.

"Their table," says Lord Byron, in describing a dinner-party given by Lord and Lady Amundevillo at Norman Abbey, "Their table was a board to tempt even ghosts To pass the Styx for more substantial feasts.

And these same tables were some form of that which we of this age name Camera Obscura; but made very great, and with inventions, and low to the floor, so that ten thousand people might sit about them in the raised galleries, and have comfortable sight.

" Now, however, at the time of which we are writing, chairs were becoming more plentiful and the table was a definite article of furniture.

The table was a great clapboard set on four wooden legs; there were three-legged stools, and in the better sort of houses old-fashioned rocking-chairs.[20] The couch or bed was warmly covered with blankets, bear-skins, and deer-hides.

A cheaper time table is the "Indicateur des Chemins de Fer," published by the same firm, price 1/2 fr., which gives the French railways only, with map and index.

At the Centennial Exposition, Washington Territory fruit-tables were the wonder of visitors and an attractive feature of the grand display.

"That table," he said, pointing, "is solid mahogany and very heavy.

On a brass tablet inserted in the top of the table is this inscription"This table was the property of James Thomson, and always stood in this seat.

Dinner, being the grand solid meal of the day, is a matter of considerable importance; and a well-served table is a striking index of human, ingenuity and resource.

If it be a fact that this table is not a chair, not a rhinoceros, not a logarithm, not a mile away from the door, not worth five hundred pounds sterling, not a thousand centuries old, the absolute must even now be articulately aware of all these negations.

62 Metaphors for  table