Here, at the loo-table places were eagerly snapped up, Henry Ocock and his stepmother being among the first to secure seats: both were keen, hard players, who invariably re-lined their well-filled pockets. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A green table-cloth, matching the curtains, covers the loo-table. ❋ Unknown (1893)
"I'll tell you what 'appened only last night," commenced Mrs. Postwhistle, seating herself the opposite side of the loo-table. ❋ Unknown (1893)
First there was a round loo-table, not quite so large in its circumference as some people might think desirable, but, nevertheless, a round loo-table. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
It was amply furnished with a mirror, a loo-table, and a very hard sofa. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
Ferdinand was once more alone with the mirror, the loo-table, the hard sofa, the caricatures which he hated even worse than his host's portrait, the Hebrew Bible, and the Racing Calendar. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
Ask Lord Falconer, if I don't sing like an angel, although my voice is hardly strong enough to go round a loo-table; but on the stage, one learns to dispense with all qualities. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
After a walk on deck, and a cup of tea or coffee, you form your party for whist or some round game, or join the ladies in their _boudoir_, which I ought to have mentioned before as leading out of the great room forward, being a pretty square apartment, fitted up with sofas, mirrors, loo-table, and other little elegancies which ladies love to look upon and be surrounded by. ❋ Tyrone Power (1818)
I was quite Confounded and amazed; it was impossible to explain myself across a loo-table, as she is so deaf: there was no making a reply to a woman and a Princess, and particularly for me, who have made it a rule, when I must converse with royalties, to treat them with the greatest respect, since it is all the court they will ever have from me. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
“Up, up to the ceiling went the horsehair cushion of the lodging-house sofa — up went the footstool after it, and its four wooden legs in falling made a terrible clatter on the mahogany loo-table. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Your ventures are no better than my guineas cast down on the loo-table. " ❋ Unknown (1871)
"This ought to have been ` chest of drawers, 'and it's run into one word, ` chawers'; and up higher there's another blunder, ` loo-table, '-- it's gone wrong too -- do you see? ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"What, among barbarians who never saw a loo-table, and get the modes three months too late! ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
"I don't think any lady of your acquaintance, sir, would allow you to stand on her rosewood or mahogany loo-table. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
The Princess ha (f heard of our having cold meat upon the loo-table, and would have some. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)
