539 examples of napkins in sentences

Grandma, Aunt Alice, Marian, and Patty hemmed tablecloths and napkins with great diligence, and even little Edith was allowed to help with the kitchen towels.

One day, in spite of Cecile, he threw himself upon the wardrobe and carried off a bundle of linen, handkerchiefs, towels, napkins, and sheets, intending to sell them.

Moreover, I was glad to please him, and please him it did to set the little table back against the wall of vines, to place my chair in the shaded corner, and to fetch the incomparable results of his cookery from the kitchen, couched and covered in snowy napkins against the morning breeze.

By good fortune she found blind Nora hemming napkins and in a mood to converse.

NAPKINS.The frequency of the discharges from the bowels and bladder requires a frequent change of napkins.

Napkins, the infant's, 74. Navel, bleeding from, 203. , ulceration or imperfect healing of, 202. Navel-string, bleeding from, 201. Naevi, or moles, 206.

The nuns of Farnsfield (pretty nuns they be) Gave napkins, shirts, and bands to him and me.

Inside was a sleepy-looking waiter in his shirt-sleeves engaged in the leisurely pursuit of rolling up napkins.

I feared, perhaps, the way they managed their table-napkins" "Not at all.

the economical elegancies of silver, napkins, and china, and this, too, in style little inferior to Verey's in the Palais Royal.

Having one day accompanied her upstairs, she proceeded to unlock a large trunk which I had always regarded with longing eyes; and opening them very wide, that I might take in as much as possible in a hasty survey, what was my disappointment to see her take out a couple of linen pillow-cases, nicely ruffled, while at least a dozen or two more remained, together with a corresponding number of sheets, table-cloths, napkins, &c.!

"At the conclusion of the meeting some linen and cotton table cloths and napkins, manufactured by the Africans, were exhibited, and eagerly purchased of them by persons present, at liberal prices.

* NAPKINS.

"Fine napkins," replied the ambassador, "a clean one at every meal, worth a crown a piece or more."

"Here's a contribution to your equipment," and she brought out a box of paper plates and cups, and another of paper napkins.

These jars the girls placed on the top shelf; on the next they ranged their paper "linen"which they used for napkins and then as fuel to start the bonfire in which they destroyed all the rubbish left over from their meal.

R80067, 22Jun51, William Backus Guitteau (A) GUNZENHADSER, HILDA L. Filet crochet patterns for sweet pea tablecloth & napkins, nos.

Our custom also of using water-glasses after dinner is an object of particular censure; yet whoever dines at a French table must frequently observe, that many of the guests might benefit by such ablutions, and their napkins always testify that some previous application would be by no means superfluous.

You should see me running baby ribbon in my lingerie and combing out the fringe on tea-napkins.

For there were white napkins, and napkins that had once been white, tied across many brows.

For there were white napkins, and napkins that had once been white, tied across many brows.

Mrs. Somers was by the fire, darning fine napkins, winking over her task, maintaining in her aspect the determination to avert any danger of a midnight interview with Desmond.

"We are all sleepy except this exemplary housewife with her napkins," cried Ann.

After we were settled at the Tremont, while watching a sad waiter engaged in the ceremonial of folding napkins like fans, I discovered an intermediate tone of mind, which gave my thoughts a picturesque tinge.

Under this portico there are orange-trees in green stands, rows of chairs, and tables laid with white table-cloths, plates, and napkins, ready for an al-fresco meal.

539 examples of  napkins  in sentences