Banquet Board

-- The empty dishes on the banquet-board: no one cares for them. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nan had produced the banquet-board – a board literally as well as figuratively – from which many a feast, seasoned as no viands were elsewhere, had been eaten in Rainbow Valley. ❋ Lucy Maud (1919)

But if you want to degrade a people beyond redemption; if you want to transform them into contemptible peons and whining hypocrites who encumber the earth like so much unclean vermin, educate them to feed on the crumbs from Dives 'banquet-board and accept his cast-off clothing with obsequious thankfulness. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Some had eaten until their abdomens were so distended that I thought they must burst, for beside the thag there had been fully a hundred antelopes of various sizes and varied degrees of decomposition, which they had unearthed from burial beneath the floors of their lairs to grace the banquet-board. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)

Nan had produced the banquet-board -- a board literally as well as figuratively -- from which many a feast, seasoned as no viands were elsewhere, had been eaten in Rainbow Valley. ❋ Unknown (1908)

Belden had actually been obliged to sit at a banquet-board and to hear this old man, usually so quiet and inexpressive, loudly applauded by ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)

Me for this struggle the Scyldings'-friend paid in plenty with plates of gold, with many a treasure, when morn had come and we all at the banquet-board sat down. ❋ Anonymous (1887)

At one end of the long saloon a banquet-board was spread. ❋ Kate Sanborn (1878)

I could have lent him the "Medicina Statica," with its frontispiece showing Sanctorius with his dinner on the table before him, in his balanced chair which sunk with him below the level of his banquet-board when he had swallowed a certain number of ounces, -- an early foreshadowing of Pettenkofer's chamber and quantitative physiology, -- but the "Opera Omnia" of Sanctorius I had never met with, and I fear he had to do without it. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Me for this struggle the Scyldings’-friend paid in plenty with plates of gold, with many a treasure, when morn had come and we all at the banquet-board sat down. ❋ Unknown (2003)