supper-table

I found four supper-table scenes in which this group is chatting over a meal, a sensitive topic comes up and one or other of the two main characters gets up and storms out.

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"This is not something that's daily supper-table conversation among me or my peers," said Michael Cowen, the surgeon general of the Navy during that time period.

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His father expressed the utmost anxiety, and spoke of detaching a party at the dawn of morning in quest of him; when, as we were sitting at the supper-table, the door suddenly opened, and Allan entered the room with a proud, firm, and confident air.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

The board was so sooner arranged than the hungry guests hastened to occupy their seats around it; for which purpose the sleepers were awakened, the dicers resigned their game, and the idlers and politicians broke off their sage debates, in order to secure their station at the supper-table, and be ready to perform their part in the interesting solemnity which seemed anout to take place.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table

Archive 2007-02-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

The mother at home quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table

A Visit from Uncle Walt Bruce Schauble 2007

Then she put a few crumbs of bread taken from the supper-table, soaked in brandy into his mouth.

A House to Let 2007

When everyone else was gone, Bluenote lit a cigar and walked twice around the cleared supper-table.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

Prototype probably Agesilaus and the younger Cyrus at the supper-table, with just this touch of coarseness.

Cyropaedia 2007

They followed the Captain to the house, and arranged themselves with great ceremony round a well-loaded supper-table.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007