luncheon-party

Haj Kador, Sidi Shakeer, and several other Moors, were of our luncheon-party, which was a very merry one.

Travels in Morocco 2003

But this did not happen every day; there were days when she had been prevented from coming by her lessons, by her catechism, by a luncheon-party, by the whole of that life, separated from my own, which twice only, condensed into the name of Gilberte, I had felt pass so painfully close to me, in the hawthorn lane near Combray and on the grass of the

Swann's Way 2003

Not so with another that was revealed to me on the occasion of this luncheon-party, but revealed without any indication of its purport.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

And lo, one day, came an invitation from Mme. Swann to a big luncheon-party.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Once, Lucie had a touch of croup in the night and could not be left, so that Agnes must needs go alone to her dressmaker; and once came an invitation to a luncheon-party in which Mary was not included.

Ultima Thule 2003

There _should_ have been a luncheon-party in this Act, with Dr. RELLING and MÖLVIK, who would have been in a state of comic "chippiness," after his excesses overnight.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 Various

On the day following Sir Cyril Meres's luncheon-party she arrived in her usual fashion.

The Invader A Novel

What that woman at the luncheon-party had called Really Nice Children: the sort of children who had rocking-horses, and special furniture with rabbits on it, and hats and coats that matched, and grandmothers with houses in the country.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

It happened that Ruth, returning from her luncheon-party, looked in at the nursery on her way upstairs.

The Coming of Bill 1928

Yet the little luncheon-party that she gave in Mrs. Wilcox's honour was not

Howards End 1924