They were already diners d'adieux, as every day in the papers the fall of the ministry was announced, and the names of the new ministers published.

The soup had been removed; the diners were engaged in igniting their first cigarette at the candles placed between each pair of them for that purpose.

Diners à la Russe may possibly, erewhile, save modern gentlemen the necessity of learning the art which was in auld lang syne one of the necessary accomplishments of the youthful squire; but, until side-tables become universal, or till we see the office of "grand carver" once more instituted, it will be well for all to learn how to assist at the carving of this dish, which, if not the most elegant in appearance, is a very general favourite.

It has been said, indeed, that great men, in general, are great diners.

The Greeks, too, were great diners: their social and religious polity gave them many chances of being merry and making others merry on good eating and drinking.

When the crowd of diners had thinned he came to me for a chat.

A keen observer who has had the cosmopolitan education, say, of an attaché, is usually able to assign a nationality to each member of a mixed assembly; but there was a subtle resemblance to each other in these diners, which would have made the task a hard one.

"We are far removed," she went on, "from the clamour of diners, that babel of voices, the smell of cooking, the meretricious music.

With beaming eyes underneath his frizzed and curled wig, and a trumpet tied with a black ribbon to the button-hole of his coat, for he was deaf, this most excellent of writers showed how he could be also the most zealous of diners.

After the German fashion the diners will eat slowly and heavily; and afterward they will sit in clusters of three or four, drinking mugs of Munich or Pilsner, and talking deliberately.

But Walters looked as much like a gentleman as did many of the diners; and when he seated himself at the largest table and told the waiter to serve for a party of eight or ten; he did it with such an air that the head waiter came over himself and took the orders.

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In 1791, when a party of Unitarians dined at Birmingham in celebration of the French Revolution, serious riots broke out, and Priestley, who was then minister of the New Meeting there, was made a principal victim though he was not one of the diners.

And Wilbur Cowan, who was going to war, had invited her to be present that evening at the opening of Newbern's new and gorgeous restaurant, where the diners, between courses and until late after dinner, would dance to the strains of exotic and jerky music, precisely as they did in the awful city.

Dinners and diners seemed to be done with for one more day; and there were only a couple of drowsy-looking waiters folding table-cloths and putting away cruet-stands and other paraphernalia in long narrow closets cut in the papered walls, and invisible by day.

The east ballroom of the hotel was well filled with diners.

He was in business clothes, a sharp contrast to the rest of the diners.

He paused and looked the diners over.

It was set at a very late and very fashionable hour, and all through the program groups of torpid, though rather audible, diners kept drifting in.

Just as the boys reached the gallery, the assembled diners took their seats.

An observer, given to deductions, might have noticed that half of the diners were immoderately hilarious, the other half studiously polite.

"There, there, sweetheart, I'll have you out of this in a jiffy," Jack was at my side, helping me to rise, getting me into my coat, shielding me from the curious gaze of the other diners.

Jimmie had engaged a table on the piazza, nearest the street and commanding the best view of all the other diners.

It is reached by an enormous elevator which takes you up some two hundred feet, where there spreads before you a series of terraces, each with tables and diners, and above all the band-stand.

They are as much separate courses as the fish and the meat; and all experienced diners take both.