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  • They knew that he was furnishing with great splendor, for something had been said about ordering a dinner-service from Limoges, and the two women had striven to make

    Two Poets 2007

  • They knew that he was furnishing with great splendor, for something had been said about ordering a dinner-service from Limoges, and the two women had striven to make

    Two Poets 2007

  • “Hooray! the dinner-service again, by — —,” roared Dickon.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • As to the dinner-service, it was elegant, and in perfect taste.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • By the way, Fritz, have you packed up the _Sèvres_ dinner-service?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various

  • Walsingham's, was the dinner-service of the "Grandee of Spain" who commanded her.

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • There was a constant supply of provisions in my larder; and at a moment's notice Rose would produce an excellent dinner, all ready cooked, and dished in a beautiful little china dinner-service.

    The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown

  • "_Beroofen_!" exclaimed an Italian Countess of dazzling beauty, at the same time rapping the table with one of the bejewelled forks which form part of the Baron's second-best dinner-service.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 Various

  • Neither did I find myself able to disbelieve in the accuracy of her picturesque description of Joseph Bonaparte's Venetian gondola floating upon the waters of Northern New York, or her account of his dinner-service of

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • I instruct her to make the following bequests on my behalf: my dinghy to Captain Delcourt; my china dinner-service to his wife; my carved ivory walking-stick to …

    Death of a Harbormaster Simenon, Georges 1942

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