Which preposition to use with dines
He often dined with us in our own house, en petit comite, and was always charming.
Sometimes he came home very late for nine-o'clock dinner; sometimes he dined at Versailles and only got home at ten or eleven if the sitting was stormy.
"I dine in the kitchen when I am at home," replied Rawdon minor, "or else with Briggs."
We dined with mother on Christmas day, a family party, with the addition of Comte de P. and one or two stray Americans who were at hotels and were of course delighted not to dine on Christmas day at a table d'hote or cafe.
We dine to-day with his Excellency.
For two years and eight months of Saturday nights, each one of them a semaphore dropping out across the gray road of the week, Gertie Slayback and Jimmie Batch dined for one hour and sixty cents at the White Kitchen.
Numbers of them will dine without the use of either knives, forks or spoons, and when dinner is over, there is but one dish to be washed.
Louise was dining by the bedside of Madame de Sévénié, who remained indisposed, a shade more so than yesterday.
The party dined under the trees (pointing to some large sugar-maples then standing in the military garden, under the cliffs).
This officer was amazed at his host's preparations, and said, "When we are campaigning, and get hungry, we knock over the first animal we find, cut off a steak, powder it with salt, which we always have in the sabretasche, put it under the saddle, gallop over it for half a mile, and then dine like princes."
Who enters Ceiner's is prepared to dine from barley soup to apple strudel.
An orator who suggests a new view of any topic is a disturber of the digestive organs,this was very properly a matter of offence to the Aldermen who were to dine after the oration,but an orator who tampers with the language we have inherited from Shakspeare and Milton, and which we share with Tupper, was an object for deeper reprobation.
No oneto my knowledge at leastever dines off the proverbial cabbage or turnipperhaps it would be better if they did now and thenbut, that by the way.
Pray, E., get to Snow Hill before 12, for we dine before 2.
Some of them were overwhelmed with the importance of their position; none were ever modest enough to perceive their own small individuality amidst their judicial environments; and this thought reminds me of an occurrence at Liverpool Assizes, when Huddlestone and Manisty, the two Judges on circuit, dined as usual with the Lord Mayor.
SCREEN, Johnson dines behind one, i. 163, n. 1. SCRIPTURE PHRASES, ii. 213. SCRIPTURES, in Erse: See under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, Erse; evidence for their truth: See under CHRISTIANITY.
I have dined opposite Miss Cumberlandonly the two of us at a great tablewith a wide silence around usand the Chinese cook padding to and fro from the kitchen.
They dined outside the house.
Accompanied by his wife, he was motored and wined and dined through the conquered country under the watchful chaperonage of German officers.
There then dined among the company, JOHN ECHARD, the author of The Contempt of the Clergy, who sate at the lower end of the table between the archbishop's two chaplaynes SAMUEL PARKER and THOMAS THOMKINS, being the first time that the said ECHARD was introduced into the said archbishop's company.
The ruralizing party were to dine amid the ruins of Berry Pomeroy, and were not expected home till dusk, to a substantial tea.
The Persian court is very magnificent, being attended by many high officers of state, and every day 400 persons dine along with the king.
Dryden employed his mornings in writing; dined en famille; and then went to Wills's; only he came home earlier a'nights' Mr. Foss says of Blackstone:'Ere he had been long on the bench he experienced the bad effects of the studious habits in which he had injudiciously indulged in his early life, and of his neglect to take the necessary amount of exercise, to which he was specially averse.'
BECKY GOES TO COURT AND DINES AT GAUNT HOUSE.
Although we live under a democratic government, the rule of equality, the time is still far off when you will see the noble father dining beside the prefect at the table of the judge of appeal, and the actress open the ball with the prefect at the house of the general-in-chief!