dinings

This the intention, your father so set upon your compliance, so much in hopes that you would have yielded, that you would have been prevailed upon by methods so condescending and so gentle; no wonder that he, in particular, was like a distracted man, when he heard of your flight — of your flight so premeditated; — with your ivy summer-house dinings, your arts to blind me, and all of us! —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Each house had always been asked to dine with the other house once a year; but it had been understood that such dinings were ecclesiastico-official, and not friendly.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

He recounts his seeings and doings, his dinings out and meetings, his country house visits, like a guest too well – bred to show surprise even if he feels it.

The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

The scene itself, even exclusive of the gayety which always attended the dinings of Eugene, had its attractions.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

This day of dinings was concluded by a supper for nearly two hundred guests, which General Henri Durosnel, Governor of Dresden, gave that evening at the close of a magnificent ball at the residence of M. de

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Such a lot of presents in our _shoes_ on Christmas morning; such dinings and suppings, and musical parties!

Emilie the Peacemaker Mrs. Thomas Geldart

I think those who gave dinings felt uneasy if there was unoccupied room for one more dish.

Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

There were large neighborhood dinings, held first at one mansion and then at another, at which all the familes of the neighborhood gathered, and the tables groaned under the superabundance of all things tempting the appetite of man.

A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

Murray told Moore of the approaching appearance of the article in the next number, and Moore enters in his Diary, “Saw my 'Lord Edward Fitzgerald' announced as one of the articles in the Quarterly, to be abused of course; and this too immediately after my dinings and junketings with both author and publisher.”

A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911

I was accustomed in towns to see champagne flow at dinings, and I did not refuse it.

A slaveholder's daughter, 1900