One would think you'd never read an eclogue of Virgilyou're duller than a doctor of divinity's after-dinner speech!

Mumbles had finished his after-dinner nap and was now awakening to activity.

The phrase tickled all my after-dinner-coffee sense of humor into an anticipation of Poker Flat.

Perhaps this case was a high example of expedition, because it was not always that a learned counsel could put his questions so neatly; but it may be taken that these after-dinner trials did not occupy on the average more than four minutes each.

Daniel Webster once declared that there was no such thing as ex tempore speaking,a saying not altogether correct, but in the main confirmed by many great orators who confess to laborious preparation for their speech-making, and by the fact that many of our famous after-dinner speakers have been known to send their speeches to the Press before they were delivered.

There are some people in these days who affect to regard Washington as commonplace, as the lawyers of Edinburgh at one time regarded Sir Walter Scott, because he made no effort to be brilliant in after-dinner speeches.

Before I had been a week in Tallahassee I found that, without forethought or plan, I had dropped into the habit (and how pleasant it is to think that some good habits can be dropped into!) of making the St. Augustine road my after-dinner sauntering-place.

She is a Michael Angelo at painting, and has represented striking scenes from his 'Last Judgment' on a set of after-dinner coffee cups.

And they brought in after-dinner coffee in small cups.

It barely served to make the shadowy outlines of the house visible, the heavy arches, roughly sketched doorways, and hinted at the forms of the cowpunchers who were ranged under the far arcade for their after-dinner smoke, all eagerly listening to the dialogue between the mistress and the foreman.

Pa and Ma Gregg were listening to the after-dinner concert in the foyer.

Give to such a man a flow of animal spirits and a dash of wit, and he should be not unapt to entertain even when poised on the dangerous wing of an after-dinner speech.

He was particularly happy as an after-dinner speaker.

"This hour," said he, "this after-dinner hour is the hour of small things.

The after-dinner pipe made Jim peculiarly approachable, and Rowcliffe approached him suddenly and directly.

They arose at daybreak and went to bed at dusk, save when Lorry came for an after-dinner chat or when he prevailed upon Dorothy to play for them in his cabin.

Five years had improved Marcus Wilkeson's relish for a good book, an after-dinner pipe, and a chat with a friend.

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He would not be cheated of his after-dinner luxury, so he gagged them with sticks, and replenished the fires.[T] [Footnote T: Llorente's Oeuvres de Las Casas; Première Mémoire, contenant la Relation des Cruautés, etc.]

By this time the "mulligan" was ready to serve and they dined upon the savory hobo-stew, and after they had filled their inner selves, according to hobo usage they stretched themselves in the shade of the trees to take their after-dinner rest.

Now it is one of my theories that a man's after-dinner talk takes much of its weight, color, and variety from the quality of his wines.

The toast, after-dinner talk, or address is always given under conditions that require abounding good humor, and the desire to make everybody pleased and comfortable as well as to furnish entertainment should be uppermost.

" BIBLE INTERPRETATION "Miss Jane, did Moses have the same after-dinner complaint my papa's got?" asked Percy of his governess.

"A good turkey dinner and mince pie," said a well-known after-dinner orator, "always puts us in a lethargic moodmakes us feel, in fact, like the natives of Nola Chucky.

" The Society for Psychical Research mentions another interesting case, as follows: "Dr. Golinski, a physician of Kremeutchug, Russia, was taking an after-dinner nap in the afternoon, about half-past three o'clock.