dining-room table

“The long dining-room table was little more than a floor-length cloth punctuated by the regular bumps of its chairs, its long tarpaulined surface set with three blackened candle-sticks.”

Locked Rooms

“Seen by candlelight round the dining-room table they seemed, with the exception of the housekeeper-chaperon, extremely young.”

Died in the Wool

“Diantha glanced through the open door and saw the dining-room table with its chenille after-supper cloth on.”

The Prism

“The ChildKingArthur and the Child Queen Guinevere were disclosed upon thrones, with the Child Elaine and many other celebrities in attendance; while about fifteen Child Knights were seated at a dining-room table round, which was covered with a large Oriental rug, and displayed (for the knights 'refreshment) a banquet service of silver loving-cups and trophies, borrowed from the Country Club and some local automobile manufacturers.”

Penrod

“He was amazed at how small everything was, not only the rooms themselves but the objects in them—the armchairs and the television in the corner of the front room, the dining-room table and chairs in the back room.”

Simon & Schuster: The Empty Family

“Ethel Schwarz served tea and cookies as they sat around the dining-room table and held a general post-mortem on the High Holy Day services: on the rabbi's sermons, on the cantor's singing, on the faulty public-address system, on the disorder during the Reading.”

Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry

“Undiluted Lane-Pontifex was not to be thought of, so they generally made it an excuse for asking as many people as their dining-room table would hold, and that meant getting Mrs. Jackman in to help with the washing-up.”

Mrs. Miniver