147 examples of tablecloths in sentences

Some just covered their bodies with beadwork and tablecloths trimmed with gold and silver.

In the school-room there should either be tablecloths, or the tables should be capable of being scrubbed by the children after each meal.

Another day we shall go to buy prosaic things like tablecloths and carpet-sweepers; and then, as we know little about such things, we shall be glad to take with us some experienced advisers.

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.

From a chest of drawers she brought one of the new white linen tablecloths of which she was inordinately proud.

I cannot have my tablecloths soiledthat I cannot!

There are no tablecloths and no napkins, but the tops of the tables have been scoured until they shine and everything is spotless.

Two of the bold ruffians had already made their descent by means of tablecloths, tied together, when the alarm was given.

We got the marble-topped tables carried into the cheery room and covered them with tablecloths from a shop in Park Street, bought rugs for the floor and hangings for the doors, and with a few cushions and palms and flowers the room is quite pretty and home-like.

They sat side by side with their backs to the long tablecloths left on for tea.

The more dignified and aristocratic portion of the crowd calmly sat down again upon their rugs and mats and watched their servants unload baskets of provisions upon tablecloths, napkins and trays which they spread upon the ground.

It required all the sheets and tablecloths of the establishment to fix up a confessional room, and we had to wait till noon for the blessing at breakfast; but worse than all that, my commadres, who used to embrace me with such affection, went away with their reybosas over their heads without even a friendly salutation.

One of Mrs. Dudley's prettiest tablecloths was spread on a little piney level close to the brook, and Polly set out the paper plates and cups and the boxes of food.

From the windows of plundered and fire-blackened houses in both Aerschot and Louvain and along the road between, hung white flags made from sheets and tablecloths and pillow- casespathetic appeals for the mercy which was not granted.

"William is being led away," she remarked abruptly, with a catching of the breath, apropos of tablecloths.

Here the implements to eat with were more varied and numerous than even at the Spleists, and the tablecloths more lacy, and quantities of gold dishes full of almonds and olives and candies and other nice things, were by one's plate, and one could eat them all through the meal.

Over this table-top Mrs. Kelcey had laidwithout thought, it must be admitted, of any intermediary padding such as certain mistaken hostesses consider essentialthree freshly and painstakingly laundered tablecloths, her own, Mrs. Murdison's, and Mrs. Lukens's best, cunningly united by stitches hardly discoverable except by a too-searching eye.

*** The no-tablecloths order has caused great perturbation among the better-class hotel-keepers in Berlin.

The largest field may be something less than two tablecloths, while the smallest is, say, a speck of undercliff, on to which it were hard to back a 'rickshaw, wrested from the beach and growing its clump of barley within spray-shot of the waves.

Old, half-worn tablecloths may be cut into excellent dish towels.

Both napkins and tablecloths are ironed in this way.

" "How many tablecloths have we?" "Plenty.

I happened to pass the linen closet; flax, yarn, tablecloths and napkins and sheets and shirts and every possible kind of stuff are piled up to the ceiling in there.

These natives have neither tables, tablecloths, or napkins; the caciques may sometimes decorate their tables with little golden vases, but their subjects use the right hand to eat a piece of maize bread and the left to eat a piece of grilled fish or fruit, and thus satisfy their hunger.

[Illustration: "AT LAST I DID GET ON MY FEET"] I heard the minglement of a groan and a scream, and in an instant I was enveloped in a white, wet cloud of sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths, and underwear.

147 examples of  tablecloths  in sentences