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  • Thank you Jacqui, Tony & all the other chattering Tuscanista dinnerparty crowd for dropping this on the nation.

    The Weekend Starts Here « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • We did accually have a big dinnerparty last night.

    Dinner Party « Fairegarden 2009

  • In the meantime, when someone at a dinnerparty says, "You idiot educators have really screwed it up big time this time," you can say some or all of the following:

    Gerald Bracey: We Didn't Do It! 2008

  • I must close this as I have to go out shortly to some ghastly dinnerparty.

    A Secret Vengeance Lee, Miranda 2001

  • The milieu is defined by its 'initial dinnerparty questionÂ… either' What is your field? 'or' What are you working on? 'depending on the degree of familiarity between participants in the exchange.'

    La Femme Savante Annan, Gabriele 1993

  • To something, in fact, on the lines of the Will read at the dinnerparty, but rather better.

    Final Curtain Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1935

  • I bought a second-hand dumb-waiter for this dinnerparty, in preference to re-engaging the handy young man; against whom I had conceived a prejudice, in consequence of meeting him in the Strand, one Sunday morning, in a waistcoat remarkably like one of mine, which had been missing since the former occasion.

    XXVIII. Mr. Micawber’s Gauntlet 1917

  • Aren't they trying to make an _Entente cordiale_ now at Tay Pay's dinnerparty with perfidious Albion?

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • I wish I had never gone to that dinnerparty and met the Professor.

    The Return Of The Soul 1896 Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • All, except myself, were good talkers, and composed a delightful dinnerparty.

    Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849

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