It wasn't more than two hundred yards to the top of a gentle rise, over which we disappeared from view; and just as we bumped over it I wrenched out the white tablecloth in which Rene's chicken and stuff was wrapped and waved it violently.

Do you remember how on Sunday afternoons you would insist on playing at church, and how, with a tablecloth for a surplice, you used to be the minister?

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

The boy came in with a tablecloth on his arm, and behind him Ben.

Mr. Sharp complied, having first, after several refusals, put a little into the ladies' glasses, and a lot on the tablecloth near Mr. Culpepper.

He held his coat and shirt together with one hand and traced patterns on the black-and-gold tablecloth with the index finger of the other, while his disengaged eye watched Mr. Bensington's sword of Damocles, so to speak, with an expression of sad detachment.

Dinner was just over, and at the ends of the long tables the mess-waiters stood ready to draw, with a single jerk, the strips of white tablecloth from the shining mahogany.

" Babet spread a tablecloth like snow, and laid some dishes of fruit upon the table.

They were laid out on the spotless tablecloth before him, and he was telling his cousin all about them as he slowly meandered through his dinner.

Upon examination it seemed that these were the knives that had been used to cut the tablecloth into shreds, and if so, the jury might well assume that each prisoner had used one of the knives for that purpose, for one man could not at the same time use two.

In the yawl we extended the tablecloth as a sail, and in the other boat a blanket served the same purpose.

And the half circle of bare tablecloth opposite me was about as cheerful as a snowy afternoon at the North Pole.

I'll pop in first and throw this tablecloth over his head; then, while I hold him down, you chaps upset the things and put out the light.