Before leaving the breakfast table, I made some reference to his improvement.

We must remember, however, that it is a transition class, and not set up a completely fashioned time-table for the whole day.

and I managed to turn the tables on Oaks at that inquiry; it would have been jolly awkward for the rest of you to have proved an alibi.

Then a comfortable, pleasant-faced mulattress came to clear the supper-table.

Mrs. Prentiss, the housekeeper, had her daughter with her on a visit, and the daughter's baby lay asleep in a cradle placed upon two chairs, outside the little circle of women round the table, one of whom was Jervis, Lady Mary's maid.

Arithmetic turns pale when she glances at them, and, striking her multiplication table with her algebraic knuckles, demands to know why the Express does not add a Cube-it to its THATCHER.

he asked, approaching a ricketty table at which sat the persecuted Southerner, reading a volume of HOYLE'S Games.

A waiter, painstakingly oblivious, stood two tables back.

They take out and put away their own things, and give all reasonable help in laying tables and serving food, in washing, dusting and sweeping up crumbs, as is done in any true Kindergarten.

Presently the gong sounded, and we went below into the elegantly fitted saloon, where was spread a table that sparkled with cut glass and shone with silver.

At something after six begins the rising sound of cutlery, and already the new-comer fears to find no table.

This apartment was apparently used as a dining-room, for it contained a large table, a few chairs, a small sideboard, a spirit-stand, a case of books and ornaments, and two small oak presses.

When at last Dawson was summoned to the sitting; of the War Committee, he found himself in the presence of some half a dozen elderly and embarrassed-looking gentlemen arranged round a big table.

He kept the table between him and his companion.

But he was determined to make his escape somehow, and not wait to be whipped; so, by and by, he drew the little deal table close against the wall, and getting on to it began picking the rushes one by one out of the lower part of the thatch.

Dom Baudot's The Roman Breviary gives in an appendix, pp. 239-252, "tables showing the date at which each saint was inserted in the Roman Breviary, the rank given to his festival, and the variations it has undergone.

My father walked straight up to it, motioned to me to place a smaller table close to the picture on the left side, and put his lamp upon that.

"Yes," and the Colonel thumped the table for order, infinitely relieved that the dinner was done, and the punch not likely to turn into a casus belli.

For the latter she lights the fire, dusts her room, prepares the breakfast-table, and waits at the different meals taken in the housekeeper's room (see 58).

I reached the table, and stooped down to him, with a catching at my heart.

Then she pointed to the other end of the room, and there I saw a table with tea and coffee.

I guessed there was a woman there, from the way the boudoir and ladies' saloon were arranged, and certainly no man's hand decorated a dinner table as that was decorated.

Almost at each step the father received congratulations, while complimentary letters and cards covered his table to overflowing.

On his credit this house has been furnished, and his trades-people have supplied our table.

Within this chest is the Alcoran all written with great letters of golde, bound betweene two tables of massie golde, and the chest during their voyage is couered with Silke, but at their entring into Mecca it is all couered with cloth of golde adorned with iewels, and the like at the enterance into Medina.