table-napkin

I stayed at The Plaza in 1974 and did business with musos Carla and Paul Bley, and he knocked his PIPE muck into a linen table-napkin.

Old New York #39 2009

The two friends spread out the table-napkin and laid the Magic

The Magic Skin 2007

Raphael looked thrice at the talisman, which lay passively within the merciless outlines on the table-napkin; he tried not to believe it, but his incredulity vanished utterly before the light of an inner presentiment.

The Magic Skin 2007

Thanks to the peculiar clearness with which external objects are sometimes projected on an inebriated brain, in sharp contrast to its own obscure imaginings, Valentin found an inkstand and a table-napkin, with the quickness of a monkey, repeating all the time:

The Magic Skin 2007

I'm wearing a tight shirt under this blouse, but that gives about as much support as a table-napkin holding a bowling ball.

chubbychic Diary Entry chubbychic 2007

He immediately spread out the table-napkin with which he had lately taken the measure of the piece of shagreen.

The Magic Skin 2007

He invariably wore a second-hand frockcoat and slippers trodden down at heel, carried a table-napkin under his arm, and had a multitude of pimples on his cheeks.

A Desperate Character 2006

This was hard upon the lady, as her own table-napkin and a cup out of which she was wont to drink were placed at that spot.

The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

The reality that must be expressed resides, I now realised, not in the appearance of the subject but in the degree of penetration of that intuition to a depth where that appearance matters little, as symbolised by the sound of the spoon upon the plate, the stiffness of the table-napkin, which were more precious for my spiritual renewal than many humanitarian, patriotic, international conversations.

Time Regained 2003

He set an excellent meal before his brother-in-law, and himself ate and drank heartily, unfolding his very table-napkin with a kind of relish.

Australia Felix 2003