napkin

• If any man take his talent and hide it in a napkin, although it is doing him neither harm nor good apparently, God will not allow him to have it. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• I know you will give me one, pretty brother, grey-haired brother--which shall I have, brother In the napkin were two round cakes, seemingly made of rich and costly compounds, and precisely similar in form, each weighing about half a pound Which shall I have, brother?" —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
• He knows that his napkin should be unfolded (it should be unfolded once and not spread out) and laid across his lap, not tucked into his collar or the top of his vest. —  The Book of Business Etiquette
• There was a hole in the napkin--holes were characteristic of the Macomber linen--but the napkin was clean; this was characteristic, too Meanin' yourself, Joel?" —  Fair Harbor
• Life could not be entirely folded up like a napkin, and put into its proper drawer; and everything annoyed Sommerset Cloudesly. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852

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