Which preposition to use with table

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ANNA ROBERTSON BROWN LINDSAY Philadelphia, November 1st, 1902 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. CHORDS OF AWAKENING: THE HIGHER CONQUEST II.

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Just before supper, which was served at little round tables in a room opening out of the rotonde, the late King of Denmark, then Crown Prince, brother of the Princess of Wales, told me he would like to go up-stairs and see all the rooms; he had always heard that the Palais d'Orsay was a beautiful house.

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While the interminable line of the infantry regiments was passing, there was a move to the back of the box, where there was a table with ices, champagne, etc.

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There is very little informal receiving, no more evenings with no amusement of any kind provided, and a small table at one end of the room with orangeade and cakes, which I remember when I was first married (and always in Lent the quartet of the Conservatoire playing classical symphonies, which of course put a stop to all conversation, as people listened to the artists of the Conservatoire in a sort of sacred silence).

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Suddenly, I turned faint and giddy, and had to grasp at the table for support.

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At dinner-time I took my place at table on his right hand in low spirits, ate little, and said nothing.

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He went about from table to table, sometimes betting high and sometimes low, but was generally successful, until he had won as much as he could fairly carry; after which he went out, and amused himself at a puppet-show, and the stall of a cake-woman, with whom he had formerly quarrelled, but who now, when she learnt his success, was obsequiously civil to him.

before Occurrences 164%

" IX THE ACHIEVEMENT For some moments Darrow sat gazing fixedly at the table before him.

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On a little table by the side of her bed there was a small, cracked looking-glass.

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Jack meanwhile had struck a match, and soon found the candles on the night-table near the bed.

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On a table beside him were placed all his treasures.

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" She leaned on her elbows across the table from him, smiling and twirling a great ring of black onyx round her small finger.

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We had many and most animated discussions over all sorts of subjects, in two or three languages, at the tea-table under the big tree on the lawn.

as Occurrences 49%

Formalism and materialism always die slowly: play in the Board School was interpreted as something that had to be dictated and taught: the gifts, occupations and games were organised, and appeared on the time-table as subjects side by side with Wilderspin's theology and object-lessons.

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How that child loves 'em, and he should got to sit at the same table without cranberries.

between Occurrences 35%

The man who obeyed the invitation bowed deferentially to his chief and then took a chair in front of him, with the table between.

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We were rather puzzled as to what my eldest sister could do, as she was not very sociable and never spoke to strangers if she could help it, so we decided she must be very well dressed and preside at the tea-table behind an old-fashioned silver urn that we always usedlooking like a stately maitresse de maison receiving her guests.

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He frowned across the table into Steinmetz's face.

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Without a word he then went outside, securely toggled the leading dog, and returning, closed the door and seated himself at the end of the table opposite Jean.

like Occurrences 19%

" "Where?" "Ain't it cranberry between Ruby and Vetsburg?" "Yes, yes, and look such a dish of it!" "Is it right extras should be allowed to be brought on a table like this where fourteen other boarders got to let their mouth water and look at it?"

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Fairfax and his guests, were served at a table within the small cabin, and we had a glimpse of them, and their surroundings, the table prettily decorated with snowy linen, and burnished silver, while John, in a white jacket, waited upon them obsequiously, lingering behind his master's chair.

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Kaviak put a stop to his staring angrily by the hour into the fire, and set him to whittling out boats and a top, thereby providing occupation for the morrow, since it was one man's work to break Kaviak of spinning the one on the table during mealtime, and sailing the other in the drinking-water bucket at all times when older eyes weren't watching.

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Falconer returned the revolver into his pocket, and with his foot pushed the inlaid Oriental table towards his host and victim.

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An alarming discovery which might have acted as a clew to the suspicious I feared, if their presence there had not been explained by the waitress who had cleared the table after dinner.

over Occurrences 13%

It was a natural one, the result undoubtedly of having noticed two small cordial glasses standing on a little table over against the fireplace.

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