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  • We have a plastic tablecover on our table-just a large piece of plastic from Joanne Fabrics.

    The Linen Closet 2006

  • Cheyne blew crumbs away from his side of the well-worn oilskin tablecover, the remains of last night's repast yet to be cleared from it.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • Cheyne blew crumbs away from his side of the well-worn oilskin tablecover, the remains of last night's repast yet to be cleared from it.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • But it came out in evidence, quite, as it seemed, accidentally, that they had been taken from that place, and were found on the floor where the cutting up of the tablecover had been performed, at some little distance from one another; but each knife by the side of and not far from the deceased man.

    The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

  • I have said that the tablecover had been cut into strips to accomplish their purpose; and it was clear that a penknife had been used, for one was found on the floor.

    The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

  • "No, but I'm going to use it for a tablecover in my bedroom, and perhaps when I grow older I can use it for a teacloth."

    Marjorie's Maytime Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Patty, he lifted a corner of the heavy-fringed tablecover and sent Ruby to join the other ladies.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • And Mead, flippant, hard, and misanthropic in the state of nature, softened wonderfully as he sat in the gloom of the tablecover, in silent possession of those two slim fingers.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • And when the groom and the groomsman returned she, with a muffled gurgle, dived back into the seclusion of the tablecover.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • Casting one last look into the mirror, she swooped under the large center-table, dragging Patty with her, and disposing their various frills and ribbons under the long-hanging tablecover.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

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