hall-table

At night, when Honeyman comes in, he finds on the hall-table three wax bedroom candles — his own,

The Newcomes 2006

Opening my door a little, I became aware of a demand on his part for “Creemsvort” to be brought down to him that he might cut his throat on the hall-table and wash his honour, which he affirmed to be in a dirty condition, in infernal British blood.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

Francis Clavering, Bart., which found their way to his hall-table, was quite remarkable.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Louise lingered, before returning, to open a letter that was lying on the hall-table; she also spoke to Fraulein

Maurice Guest 2003

For with a despairing gesture Mahony had tossed his hat on the hall-table, and himself dropped heavily on a chair.

The Way Home 2003

Winchester Square, after a chain of hours with his comparatively ardent friends, he wandered into the big dusky dining-room, where the candle he took from the hall-table, after letting himself in, constituted the only illumination.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

But the tray on the hall-table was empty; empty, too, the table in the surgery.

Ultima Thule 2003

For what is usually called social intercourse she had very little relish; but nothing pleased her more than to find her hall-table whitened with oblong morsels of symbolic pasteboard.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

The lower-passage boys carried off their small tables, aided by their friends; while above all, standing on the great hall-table, a knot of untiring sons of harmony made night doleful by a prolonged performance of "God Save the King."

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

So it was six o'clock before any one dreamed that it could be so late, and the men went off to their hotels for dinner, leaving the girls to gloat over the flower-boxes piled high on the hall-table, to gossip over the afternoon's adventures, and then hurry off to dress, dinner being a superfluity to them after so many salads and sandwiches, ices and macaroons, all far more appetizing than a campus dinner menu.

Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde