dinner-tables

DB Fletcher's Capstan Tables are amazing, expanding round dinner-tables.

Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006

It means that we must fight racism wherever it appears - at the workplaces, in business, at schools, in the media, in the streets, at the dinner-tables, in public and private institutions and in every part of our country and society.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

But before that evening was over it was talked of at fifty dinner-tables in Vanity Fair.

Vanity Fair 2006

But of the misbegotten changelings who call themselves men, and prate intolerably over dinner-tables, I never saw one who seemed worthy to inspire love — no, nor read of any, except Leonardo da

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

Now round dinner-tables are generally of oak, or else of such new construction as not to have acquired the peculiar hue which was so pleasing to him.

Barchester Towers 2004

Sir Abraham was a man of wit, and sparkled among the brightest at the dinner-tables of political grandees: indeed, he always sparkled; whether in society, in the House of Commons, or the courts of law, coruscations flew from him; glittering sparkles, as from hot steel, but no heat; no cold heart was ever cheered by warmth from him, no unhappy soul ever dropped a portion of its burden at his door.

The Warden 2004

The whole resembled the form of the letter T, or some of those ancient dinner-tables, which, arranged on the same principles, may be still seen in the antique Colleges of Oxford or Cambridge.

Ivanhoe 2004

Buddlecombe was all a-twitter and agog: the affair was discussed over counters by tradesmen and goodwives; at mahogany dinner-tables; in the oaken settles of inns.

The Way Home 2003

Through the ceiling came apports of fresh flowers with the dew on them, or roots with the soil still clinging; great dinner-tables rose from the floor; lights flitted; apparitions appeared, spoke to you, took you by the hand.

The Way Home 2003

So the campus dinner-tables were patronized by young persons with heavily penciled eyebrows and brightly rouged cheeks, who ate cautiously to avoid smearing their paint and powder, and than ran up-stairs to jeer at the masculine contingent whose beards and moustaches had condemned them to privacy and scanty fare.

Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde