Almost before the meal was finished the alerte sounded, and the battle was on them.

Over it all hung a smell of soup-kettlesthe preparations for the midday meal, and a buzz of many voices as the men sat about eating out of their tin dishes.

I supposed a country doctor would miss his mid-day meal about half the time.

" There was a vase of flowers in the centre of the table; but although Miss Panney liked flowers, at meal-times she preferred good honest food.

But what money this meal must have cost!"

Mrs. Tolbridge had been very quiet during the course of the meal, but she was now constrained to declare that she had nothing to do with the plans for the new Methodist church, and, in fact, she knew very little about them.

Five dollars at the very least for the meal.

"Tea after a meal like that!

" "I did not order coffee," said Mrs. Tolbridge, "because we don't take it in the middle of the day, but" "You ordered quite enough," said her visitor, severely; "and I will say this for Kipper, that he never got up a better meal, although" "Kipper!" interrupted Mrs. Tolbridge.

It is the first meal she has given us, and I am so sorry the doctor could not be here to eat it.

" "And she cooked that meal?

"The reason of my extending an invitation to myself is this: I have been making a visit in the country, where I was detained much longer than I expected, and as I drove homeward, I said to myself, 'Good sir, you are hungry, and where are you going to get your evening meal?

In the families of the farmers about here, with whom I often take a meal, it is the custom for the daughter of the family to cook, to wait on the table, and then sit down with whomever may be there, kings or cobblers.

" The meal went on until the two hungry men were satisfied, Miriam being so absorbed in Dora's skilful management of herself that she scarcely thought about eating.

Seraphina, Mike's sister, now ruled in the kitchen, but Ralph's thoughts had acquired such a habit of leaving the subject on which he was engaged and flying southward, that even when he took a meal with the Tolbridges, which happened not infrequently, he scarcely noticed the difference between their table and his own.

Besides, when I do get up anything extraordinary in the way of a meal, I like to have people at the table who can appreciate it.

Seldom had La Fleur or either of her husbands prepared for prince, ambassador, or titled gourmand a meal which better satisfied the loftiest outreaches of the soul in the truest interests of the palate.

As the evening meal was not yet ready, the missionary folded the map and fell to musingmusing of the future he had marked out for himself; enjoying the sweet approval of his conscience, higher and purer than any enjoyment of earth.

" "Teddy, we'll take our morning meal there.

It occurred to me, while at this house, that I was more or less famished, and for the first time in my life I begged for a meal, which the kind family with whom the Colonel was staying most graciously furnished me.

But being tired and leg weary, a long walk does not usually appeal to the men after their evening meal; so to bed is the order of the day,and, thank Heaven!

Seated at the long table in the Lambert dining-room Harrison Cressy enjoyed a meal such as his chef-ridden soul had almost forgotten could exista meal so simple yet so delectable that he dreamed of it for days afterward.

Seated at the long table in the Lambert dining-room Harrison Cressy enjoyed a meal such as his chef-ridden soul had almost forgotten could exista meal so simple yet so delectable that he dreamed of it for days afterward.

The evening meal was rather a silent one.

A meal that cost more than sixpence was a feast.'