Evadne drank her tea out of a chocolate tinted cup, fluted like the bell of a flower, and felt as if she were feasting on the nectar of the gods, while Mr. Everidge's silvery tones kept up a constant stream of talk and Aunt Marthe's beautiful hospitality made her feel perfectly at home.

Very few men took tea.

The Boy divided the cold beans, got out biscuits, and poured the tea, while silence and a strong smell of ancient fish and rancid seal pervaded the little tent.

"They are just bringing tea.

It was rather amusing to see some of the deputies who didn't exactly like to refuse a cup of tea offered to them by the minister's wife, holding the cup and saucer most carefully in their hands, making a pretence of sipping the tea and replacing it hastily on the table as soon as it was possible.

She paid me quite a long visit,I even gave her some tea off government plate and china,all mine had been already sent to my own house.

The family was having tea in the dining room at the back of the house, and Billy

For the moment, as she makes tea in their sitting-room, which is now full of men, there is an illusion of home.

I could scarcely lie still till Miss Laura finished her tea.

We shall want tea.

He prepares his tea a la Russe in a brightly-polished samovar which compares favourably with his tea-cups and country-made tin spoons.

Whenever I happen to like my tea very much, I always think of the delicious cup of tea mamma gave us after our journey.

" "Then you got tea in the cattle boat's mess-room?"

My mamma ordered tea.

"You will contrive to let us hear of your safe arrival in Boston, Bob," observed the father, as he sat stirring his tea, in a thoughtful way"I hope to God the matter will go no farther, and that our apprehensions, after all, have given this dark appearance to what has already happened.

Never serve beef tea or broth with the smallest particle of fat or grease on the surface.

She greeted him with less eagerness, if less patronage, than her other protégé, but graciously offered him tea and permitted a cigarette.

Crowds of youths, students, and women filled the street, dragging absent-minded passengers from the cars, smashing the windows of shops that still displayed Russian goods, seeing that no one drank tea because it came from Russia, although produced in India, and going in processions before the gates of the foreign legations to demand justice of the representatives of the world powers for a people in the extremity of despair.

through Hankow, where we bought some tea.

"Look here: just leave me enough tea to last till I get home.

As a matter of fact, a person inadvertently swallowing hot tea or coffee will burn or scald his mouth or tongue much more painfully than will a professional fire-eater.

We send school-books and machinery to China; she sends us tea, matting, and bamboo.

It sells tea, coffee, and light refreshments.

He turned round after a few seconds with a cup of steaming tea in his hand.

Every day we had worked steadily at the allotted task, had then handed in the books and gone forth together to enjoy a most companionable tea in the milk-shop; thereafter to walk home by way of Queen Square, talking over the day's work and discussing the state of the world in the far-off days when Ahkhenaten was king and the Tell el Amarna tablets were a-writing.