This trophy met with vast approbation until a rival establishment across the way, not to be outdone, exhibited a centrepiece of unparalleled originality, consisting as it did of a war scene modelled entirely in lard.

By way of complement to this gorgeous centrepiece, the paper on the walls showed, in infinitely recurring duplicate, a huntress in green habit and big hat carrying on a desperate flirtation with a young man in the habiliments of the fifteenth century, while across the background a huddle of dogs pursued a mammoth deer.

And what a centrepiece it was!

She now finished her modelling with a dainty centrepiece for the bride's table, and let me go with her when she carried it to the Vallejo mansion.

The trouble with the little garden we've had is that there weren't enough flowers for more than the centrepiece in the dining-room.

It grows like this?" "Mother has some in a larger bowl and it is really lovely as a centrepiece on the dining room table.

The little thicket of grapefruit trees served as the centrepiece of Ethel Blue's dinner table, and every one admired all over again its glossy leaves and sturdy stems.

" "You don't object to a silver centrepiece on the dining table, do you?"

"I don't know anything more irritating than to have to dodge about the centrepiece to see your opposite neighbor.

"A low bowl arranged flat is the rule for centrepieces," repeated Mrs. Emerson seriously.

The girls covered the bleakness of the plain tables by placing a centrepiece of radiating ferns flat on the wood.

The centrepiece in the arrangement of the double drawing-rooms would be a great field-piece, one of Hilary's casting, on its carriage, bright as gold, and flanked with stacks of muskets.

The table cloths at every meal are masses of lace, and every sort of wonderful implement in the way of different gold forks and knives for every dish lie by your plate; and such exquisite glass; and some even have old polished tables like Aunt Maria, but instead of the simple slips they have mats and centrepieces and squares of magnificent lace.

Dear me, and that's the Jubilee centrepiece, is it?

The centrepiece was made of black-eyed Susans.