tea-tables

In fact I am certain that if I said casually, at a sufficient number of tea-tables, that corners made children squint, it would rapidly become a universally received dogma of popular science.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2008

In fact I am certain that if I said casually, at a sufficient number of tea-tables, that corners made children squint, it would rapidly become a universally received dogma of popular science.

The Human Family and the Holy Family 2008

Beginning in the 1780s, we find Christians and Jews side by side at the tea-tables of gifted and enthusiastic (upper) middle class Jewish women who, born in the 1760s, had grown up in the Mendelssohn era.

Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century. 2009

The social, cultural and religious innovations at the salon tea-tables reached a climax by 1800.

Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century. 2009

The tables and setting are straight out of a Bedouin tent, complete with beaded pillows and low tea-tables.

Test entry savemyseoul 2008

The room seemed hundreds of feet long, and not a single person at the tea-tables but took stock of her.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

“Not at all,” said Andrée, and (since nowadays, the telephone having come into general use, a decorative ritual of polite speeches has grown up round it, as round the tea-tables of the past) added: “It has been a great pleasure to hear your voice.”

The Captive 2003

There, too, probably there were tea-tables and singing in the daytime.

Crime and Punishment 2002

The first impression which Miss Climpson got of Mary Whittaker was that she was totally out of place among the tea-tables of S. Onesimus.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

Lily and her mother wandered from place to place, now paying long visits to relations whose house-keeping Mrs. Bart criticized, and who deplored the fact that she let Lily breakfast in bed when the girl had no prospects before her, and now vegetating in cheap continental refuges, where Mrs. Bart held herself fiercely aloof from the frugal tea-tables of her companions in misfortune.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987