They knew that he was furnishing with great splendor, for something had been said about ordering a dinner-service from Limoges, and the two women had striven to make ❋ Unknown (2007)
“Hooray! the dinner-service again, by — —,” roared Dickon. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As to the dinner-service, it was elegant, and in perfect taste. ❋ Unknown (2003)
By the way, Fritz, have you packed up the _Sèvres_ dinner-service? ❋ Various (N/A)
Walsingham's, was the dinner-service of the "Grandee of Spain" who commanded her. ❋ John Richard Hale (N/A)
There was a constant supply of provisions in my larder; and at a moment's notice Rose would produce an excellent dinner, all ready cooked, and dished in a beautiful little china dinner-service. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"_Beroofen_!" exclaimed an Italian Countess of dazzling beauty, at the same time rapping the table with one of the bejewelled forks which form part of the Baron's second-best dinner-service. ❋ Various (N/A)
Neither did I find myself able to disbelieve in the accuracy of her picturesque description of Joseph Bonaparte's Venetian gondola floating upon the waters of Northern New York, or her account of his dinner-service of ❋ Various (N/A)
I instruct her to make the following bequests on my behalf: my dinghy to Captain Delcourt; my china dinner-service to his wife; my carved ivory walking-stick to … ❋ Simenon, Georges (1942)
Oh, dear, Mr. Tulliver, why, thered be eight people besides the children, and I must put two more leaves i the table, besides reaching down more o the dinner-service; and you know as well as I do as my sisters and your sister dont suit well together. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The invention of the safety-lamp brought him the public gratitude of the united colliers of Whitehaven, of the coal proprietors of the north of England, of the grand jury of Durham, of the Chamber of Commerce at Mons, of the coal-miners of Flanders, and, above all, of the coal-owners of the Wear and the Tyne, who presented him (it was his own choice) with a dinner-service of silver worth £2,500. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Noting on his dinner-service the words, ` ` Facta non verba, '' I called his attention to them as a singular motto for an eminent lawyer and orator; whereupon he said that, two old members of Congress dining with him recently, one of them asked the other what those words meant, to which the reply was given, ` ` They mean, ` Victuals, not talk. '' ' ❋ Unknown (1905)
It was whispered that when his Lordship entertained ladies his dinner-service was to be of solid gold; that when gentlemen were his guests they were to dine from the costliest of silver plate. ❋ Unknown (1905)
She giggled at a dinner-service decoration with Wagner's cross-grained face, or at a hair dresser's shop-window in which there was the wax head of a man. ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)
Greatly excited by this discovery, she flew to the table where her dinner-service still remained, seized a knife and cut the canvas close to the frame for a good distance up. ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)
Our cigarette ash-trays are plates from my dolls 'dinner-service; I have got china, books, whips, knives, match-boxes and clocks given me since I was a small child. ❋ Margot Asquith (1904)
He was moody at first; she served him with her own hands, taking the plates and dishes (of the dinner-service presented him by Stein) from Tamb 'Itam. ❋ Unknown (1899)
Now she seemed perfectly content with her every-day world, delighted with a new and beautiful china dinner-service which her godmother had sent her, and absorbed in cooking all manner of wonderful dishes for a grand dolls 'feast, for which she was sending invitations to all her dolls, young and old, ugly and pretty, armless, footless, as were some, in the perfection of Parisian toilettes as were others. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Bismarck and Moltke, a plaster clown, tawdry painted fans and tortoiseshell ones; a set of the most common blue table-service, and two high candelabras, green and white; a leather dressing-bag with silver fittings (unused), automatic musical figures, shilling candlesticks, artificial coloured fruit in marble, and a really splendid silver dinner-service. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)
