table-napkins

There was no time to attempt doing the work properly, and I used simply to rub the grease off the plates with table-napkins.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Julia, who was carrying in a column of table-napkins, turned to her sister and said, simply, as if the question had surprised her:

Dubliners 2003

Or was it the one who kept table-napkins embroidered with every letter in the alphabet so that no matter what the names of her guests were, there was always a napkin with the right initial? '

Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967

A man was sitting at one of the tables, a tall bottle of red wine at his side, and a dish of cutlets before him, eating his late _déjeuner_, and reading a newspaper; whilst a waiter moved about, arranging knives and forks, table-napkins, and _pistolets_, with occasional pauses for such glimpses of the outer world as could be obtained through the muslin curtains hanging before the somewhat dingy windows.

My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

One week one of our table-napkins was raised to this honour; the next one of our clean bedroom towels had taken its place round her dark locks.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Next fold a couple of table-napkins, each into a pad of five inches square.

Entertainments for Home, Church and School Frederica Seeger

When she was two or three months old, she somehow got hold of the table-napkins done up in their rings.

Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

I hunted up all the causes in the Digest, that seemed to be on all-fours with the matter in dispute, and spent days in the Public Library of the Patent Office searching for patents having to do with table-napkins.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 Various

There was no time to attempt doing the work properly, and I used simply to rub the grease off the plates with table-napkins.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

He longed to see the curious table-napkins wrought for the Priest of the Sun, on which were displayed all the dainties and viands that could be wanted for a feast; the mortuary cloth of King Chilperic, with its three hundred golden bees; the fantastic robes that excited the indignation of the Bishop of Pontus and were figured with

The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931