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  • A _table-d'hote_ at Scarborough had hitherto been his _beau ideal_ of a feed, but that was not in the race with the Gould banquet.

    Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough

  • The table-d'hote dinner was served only on the balcony, sir.

    Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • He finally selected an oppressively magnificent restaurant where a dollar-and-a-half table-d'hote dinner was served.

    Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Cheered, Wallace demanded the bill-of-fare, "the table-d'hote, Handsome!" said he to the appreciative waiter.

    Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • The narrator was an ordinary table-d'hote Smoking-Room tourist, but he could hardly recount the story without tears.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • I do not imagine the fifty-cent table d'hote (vin compris) the genial Mr. Jauss served us was any better than most fifty-cent table-d'hote dinners, but the place was quaint and redolent of strange smells of cooking as well as of a true bohemian atmosphere.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 1917

  • I do not imagine the fifty-cent table d'hote (vin compris) the genial Mr. Jauss served us was any better than most fifty-cent table-d'hote dinners, but the place was quaint and redolent of strange smells of cooking as well as of a true bohemian atmosphere.

    Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917

  • There's a good table-d'hote dinner there every day for a franc; then there tare bathrooms and writing-rooms and reading-rooms, and all are yours if you are a stranger.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • They had just served him the usual table-d'hote salad -- you know, two leaves of lettuce with a caterpillar on one.

    The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • At the hotels they feed you on a pale, sad table-d'hote imitation of French cooking, invariably buttressed with the everlasting veal and the eternal poulet roti.

    Europe Revised 1910

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