That is," "Something went on at dinner-time.

No place is sacred, not the church is free; E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me just at dinner-time.

The boat was a great acquisition; but when they were paddling ashore for the fourth time, "to turn her over and let the water out," Dabney remarked, "It's after dinner-time, boys.

"I shall have time to finish my chapter before dinner-time comes," said Jem, and she sat down snugly in one corner of the wide, old fashioned fireplace.

It'll be dinner-time before you've done.

It is nearly dinner-time.

He is at work from five or six in the morning till dinner-time.

It's getting close to dinner-time.

"After taking the air he bathed; after that he broke his fast on a bit of biscuit, and took a very slight siesta: which done, as if awaking to a new day, he set in regularly to his studies, and pursued them to dinner-time."

Stepped in about dinner-time; seemed anxious and in a hurry, as you might say; didn't take any order from her,the young lady only asked as a favour to look into their Court Guide.

We will be home again long before dinner-time.'

He then threw himself on the couch, smoked a cigar, and after half an hour's rest continued writing till dinner-time.

I rowed on until two in the afternoon, when the fog became thinner, and finding myself between two rocky headlands, in "Milk Island Strait," as I conjectured, and it being dinner-time, I went ashore in a little inlet, took out my provisions, and dined.

"It is dinner-time," Virginia would say to the family; "the shadows of the banana-trees are at their feet."

We were out till dinner-time, and after dinner I changed the mosses in my baskets and jardinet, no small job, and M. spread out her treasures.

He was not accustomed to conserve his thirst until dinner-time.

When they got back to the ship it was dinner-time, and both were snow-blind.

Each one occupied his or her room until dinner-time, when we met again with something of the old geniality.

In a few minutes the mother of old Pipes awoke, and looking up at the sun, she exclaimed: "Why, it is almost dinner-time!

About dinner-time, in rushed Fan, panting violently, and threw herself upon her side, where she lay with her feet outstretched, her mouth foaming, and exhibiting all the signs of mortal agony.

"To have just one wretched girl to do everything!" "Especially," said Barbara, without much mercy, "when she always will do it at dinner-time.

But when the dinner-time came he really was sick with love,or sick with disappointment.

It was nearly dinner-time, she and her sister-in-law were delighted to meet this gentleman, and find that he was going to dine that day with his father.

It was so delightfully quiet all the morning that we lounged about and read until dinner-time.

At the same time he hoped, as it was so near dinner-time, to find her in her chamber.