Aunt Nancy's trembling voice arose,the voice which had jealously guarded the right of saying grace at table in the Old Ladies' Home for twenty years,not, however, in the customary words of thanksgiving, but in a peremptory "Brother Abe!" Abraham looked up.

" At table that day they conversed upon all subjects, but chiefly about Greece and Greek philosophy.

Perhaps the queen's suitors (he said) out of their full feasts would bestow a scrap on him: for he could wait at table, if need were, and play the nimble serving-man, he could fetch wood (he said) or build a fire, prepare roast meat or boiled, mix the wine with water, or do any of those offices which recommended poor men like him to services in great men's houses.

It is valuable as a stomachic and antispasmodic; on which account it is generally served at table with pea-soup.

There was nobody at table but her ladyship, Mr. Boyd, and some of the children, their governour and governess.

But immediately at their first meeting, sitting at table "by the side," he says, "of this glorious youth, I was radically cured of all my vexation....

As fit, Ile warrant you Captaine, as if he were made for him, and he shall come this night to supper, and foole where his Lord: sits at table.

Paris at Table WaiterTwo or three more stuffed generals!

They cannot bear to sit at table a moment longer than is absolutely necessary.

At intervals he was roused to a sense of his presence at table by the servant's question if he should bring another course.

After the second Bottle, when Men open their Minds without Reserve, my honest Friend began to take notice of the many sonorous but unnecessary Words that had passed in his House since their sitting down at Table, and how much good Conversation they had lost by giving way to such superfluous Phrases.

In another fragment he also tells us that both boys and girls used to wait on their parents at table.

[Footnote A: Jarchi's comment on "Thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant" is, "the Hebrew servant is not to be required to do any thing which is accounted degradingsuch as all offices of personal attendance, as loosing his master's shoe latchet, bringing him water to wash his feet and hands, waiting on him at table, dressing him, carrying things to and from the bath.

They were admitted to the apartment in which his Grace dined; and he often selected the fine cuts from joints at table, and threw the pieces to the curs upon the polished oak floors of Aruudel Castle.

It is true that he had wealth and distinction, all which his fellow citizens at table did not enjoy; and these possessions, we know, are wonderful helps to confidence, if they do not lead the holder on to assurance.

Helen W. Thurber (W) & Rosemary Thurber Sauers (C); 5Dec62; R305685. Couple sitting at table, man has fallen asleep, wife looks at him disgustedly; spot drawing without caption.

"Might save time and trouble if they had at table an automatic machine; Members wanting to know how business is to be arranged, what Bills to be dropped, and which gone forward with, could go up to table, drop a penny in the slot, and out would come the answer'I have seen nothing; I have heard nothing.'

On the evening of the 22d, the Duke of Guise, on sitting down at table, found under his napkin a note to this effect: "The king means to kill you."

"It is certain," says the Marquis of Vogel, in his narrative of the affair, "that Count Clermont was at table in his headquarters of Weschelen at one o'clock, that he had lost the battle before six, arrived at Reuss at half past ten, and went to bed at midnight; that is doing a great deal in a short time."

Goethe was in high spirits at table.

His services at table were rewarded by a plateful of pudding, which he ate standing at the captain's right hand, after having, with great propriety, said grace.

Upon another occasion, their Father had endeavored to impress upon them the unseemliness of throwing their refuse pieces, bones, and fragments of food about on the table-cloth, pointing out to them the orderly manner of the whites at table, and the propriety of keeping everything neat and nice around them.

"Well!" and though I have been away four weeks, and been to foreign parts, and dined at table d'hôtes and seen Crucifixions and Madonnas, and seem to have more to tell than could be crowded into a closely-packed twelvemonth of talk, this is all I can find to say.

The household, therefore, grew up under the bracing influence of uncompromising doctrines; it was no unusual thing for one member to ask another at table, "What have you been doing for God to-day?"

At breakfast and lunch absolute punctuality is not imperative; but a visitor should avoid being always the last to appear at table.