Dinner-time

Dinner-time yesterday passed with tolerablecheer-fulness: every one tried to be cheerful.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Dinner-time came and she did not appear, though she was strolling about the flat below the house, apparently only a “little bit sick,” as Tom reported when he came up to his work.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Dinner-time presented the fair student to the family eye in the same mentally absorbed aspect.

No Name 2003

Dinner-time came and went; but he slept on; for Mrs. Beetling, still nursing her injuries, did not as usual put her head in at the door to say that dinner was ready; she just planked the dishes down on the dining-room table and left them there.

Ultima Thule 2003

"Dinner-time," he told him, and let him sit upon his shoulder, big boy as he was, to ride to the gate.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

Dinner-time brought its bone, but bones soon failed to comfort me.

Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain Julia Charlotte Maitland

Dinner-time, as a rule, finds the whole family united from about twelve until one o'clock or half-past in the kitchen at home.

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

Dinner-time came, but Amos did not make his appearance.

Amos Huntingdon T.P. Wilson

Dinner-time, however, arriving, and her grandson not having returned, the old lady became so excessively alarmed, that messengers, both on horseback and on foot, were immediately dispatched, to discover the wanderer.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

Dinner-time came, and, with a heavy heart, she seated herself at the table.

Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories Anonymous