teatime

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He was not in at teatime, and has not come back since.

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  • I was very proud of you She had taken Priscilla Stapleton about in the drawing room at teatime, introducing her to everyone as her stepson's wife, her own manner confident, charming, even regal. —  Mary Balogh - A Christmas Bride
  • I rather doubt Hartington being able to form a Government On the morning of Friday, May 22nd, I left for Dublin, and by teatime was at the Viceregal Lodge On the previous day Sir Charles had written Local Government Board May 21st, 1885 My Dear Grant Duff Off to Ireland, where I expect to be Boycotted by both sides Footnote: It turned out the other way. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
  • This morning at teatime, he put the tin lid on it. —  AHMM,May2007
  • Meet tomorrow teatime, Portobello Road antiques market at the Duke of Wellington pub, or the Earl of Lonsdale near the beer garden.' —  dummy 3
  • The heavy Miss Burrows awoke to instantaneous life at the first sound of her alarm, was positively energetic until teatime, then sank into sleepy lethargy as the evening advanced. —  Shroud for a Nightingale
 

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