12747 examples of dinners in sentences

For what do the busiest of you run away from money-making, and ride in cold or heat, in dreariness or discomfort,dinners, or greetings of love and sympathy?

Her remarks to the landlady after two dinners and one supper were of a character not to be endured by any outspoken, free-born New England woman.

You go and look arter your own dinners.'

He has ten years of repose and preparation, during which he is lauded and nattered, yet retaining simplicity of habits, sleeping but five hours a day, finding time for state dinners, flute-playing, and operas, of all which he is fond; for he was doubtless a man of culture, social, well read if not profound, witty, inquiring, and without any striking defects save tyranny, ambition, parsimony, dissimulation, and lying.

Recent agitation on the subject of prevention of cruelty to children, free dinners for school-children, adoption of children, child insurance, attest the growing strength of this feeling.

Who that ever beheld him in a London drawing-room, when he went to so many dinners that he used to say he was a walking pattywho could ever miscall him a beau?

'Suppers,' Cockburn truly says, 'are cheaper than dinners,' and Edinburgh, at that time, was the cheapest place in Great Britain.

Lord Cockburn's 'Memorials' afford an insight into manners, not only as regarded suppers, but on the still momentous point, of dinners.

Who can ever forget the small, quiet dinners given by Mackintosh when living out of Parliament, and out of office in Cadogan Place?

Simple but genial were those repasts, forming a strong contrast to the Edinburgh dinners of yore.

Lord Holland did not commit the error ascribed by Rogers, in his Recollections, to Marlay, Bishop of Waterford, who when poor, with an income of only £400 a year, used to give the best dinners possible; but, when made a bishop, enlarged his table, and lost his fame-had no more good companythere was an end of his enjoyment: he had lords and ladies to his tablefoolish peoplefoolish menand foolish womenand there was an end of him and us.

The death of Lord Holland completely broke up the unrivalled dinners, and the subsequent evenings in the 'gilded chamber.'

Most London dinners, he declared, evaporated in whispers to one's next neighbours.

No wonder, with all his various acquirements, it should be said of him that no 'dull dinners were ever remembered in his company.'

His dinners at Hammersmith were the most recherchés in the metropolis.

There he gave dinners; there he gratified a passion for display, which was puerile; there he indulged in eccentricities which almost implied insanity; there he concocted his schemes for court advancement; and there, later in life, he contributed some of the treasures of his wit to dramatic literature.

Coleridge, Rogers, Wordsworth and wife, Charles Lamb (the hero at present of the London Magazine), and his sister (the poor woman who went mad in a diligence on the way to Paris), and a Mr. Robinson, one of the minora sidera of this constellation of the Lakes; the host himself, a Maecenas of the school, contributing nothing but good dinners and silence.

So long as the fashion of late dinners continues, however, it must remain a measure of prudence to let nothing absolutely essential to the comprehension of a play be said or done during the first ten minutes after the rise of the curtain.

Indeed, Nero at first gave but simple dinners; his revels, his drunkenness, his amours were moderate.

[For the latter request he had a good reason, namely, that Nero's absence would enable him to conduct his philosophical studies at leisure without being hindered by the young man's dinners.

[Sidenote:13] When they reached Bauli, he gave for several days most costly dinners at which he showed great solicitude in entertaining his mother.

That half of society which did not visit in Arlington Street, in whose nostrils the semi-aristocratic, semi-artistic, altogether Bohemian little dinners, the suppers after the play, the small hours devoted to Nap or Poker, had an odour as of sulphur, the reek of Topheteven this half of the great world was fain to admit that Sir George was harmless.

Johnson and Hume had called upon him on the same day, and Garrick, Franklin, and Oglethorpe also partook of his "admirable dinners and good claret."

When the preliminaries of the lynching had been arranged, and a committee appointed to manage the affair, the crowd dispersed, some to go to their dinners, and some to secure recruits for the lynching party.

25, dinners at 1 fr.

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