breakfast-tables

We have already made two breakfast-tables: yet lam meek; he is sullen: I make courtesies; he returns not bows.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

It has often been remarked that the breakfast-tables of people who avow themselves indifferent to what the Press may say of them are garnished by all the newspapers on the morning when there is anything to say.

The Silver Spoon 2004

She dared not even summon a locksmith, for locksmith tongues are free; and who would not shoot out the lip at poor Jeanne, hearing the miserable story at breakfast-tables to-morrow?

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Let not the non-gnostic portion of our readers imagine, that if they haunt the justice-seat of Birnie and his judicial co-mates, that they will ever witness such pleasant, sparkling, humorous examinations as those reported in the columns of the papers which matinally grace their breakfast-tables.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 Various

The presence of a boiled egg on their breakfast-tables would cause some of the more sensitive of these

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

The department of the newspaper, with inconceivable photographic and telegraphic resources, may then be extended to the solar or the stellar systems, and the turmoils of all creation would be reported at our breakfast-tables.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

When broken, they emit that unpleasant sulphurous smell which would certainly cause their instant banishment from our breakfast-tables.

Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

Wallacetown, and although they had all declared at their respective breakfast-tables -- for breakfast is served anywhere from five-thirty to six-thirty in Hamstead, Vermont -- that nothing would keep them out of bed after supper _that_ night, off they all went again.

The Old Gray Homestead Frances Parkinson Keyes 1927

When a young reporter, gathering human-interest stories about the event from the pitiful wreckage in the hospitals, happened on Clare Gould, he got a feature-story for the Sunday edition that made Audrey's own world, reading it in bed or over its exquisite breakfast-tables, gasp with amazement.

Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

There were breakfast-tables, dinner-tables, tea-tables, and, between these, there might be introduced those preposterous other tables which women invent for no purpose unless it be that of making talk.

Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916