tea-hour

Is anything more standardized than England, with every house that can afford it having the same muffins at the same tea-hour, and every retired general going to exactly the same evensong at the same gray stone church with a square tower, and every golfing prig in Harris tweeds saying

Babbit 2004

The cook and parlourmaid were very busy all the time during the tea-hour, so that rules them out too.

The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat Blyton, Enid 1957

"She has gone for a walk, and has probably forgotten the tea-hour but I hope you will see her."

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

One minute past the appointed time master Hiram arrived, direct from the office, where he had been so immersed in accounts, head and hands so full of business, as almost to forget the tea-hour.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Yet these are admirable of their kind -- "muffin-tales" is my own name for them, of just the length to hold your attention for a solitary tea-hour and each with some novelty of idea or distinction in treatment that makes the next page worth turning.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919 Various

This trifling annoyance of presenting myself at the tea-hour, when expected to pass the evening, was sufficiently serious to my awkwardness to threaten my enjoyment of the visit; but I had scarcely seated myself in the library when Miss Darry appeared.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

As the tea-hour approached, and the ladies were requested to take their places at table, she was very much surprised to see _Mr.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

After she had sung as long as she dared, she practiced some accompaniments till her fingers tired, and then she took up a magazine and read a couple of stories, becoming so absorbed in the last one that she hardly heard a clock below striking loudly, though some sense of its strident tones made her start from her chair in dismay lest she should have missed the tea-hour.

Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge Pemberton Ginther

During the tea-hour his assiduous courtesy left scarcely a particular in which Henry Carroll, who, as before, occupied a seat opposite to him, could render himself of use.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

The hall clock sounded again, this time heard clearly through the open door, and Patricia was astonished to find that the tea-hour had arrived without her knowing it.

Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge Pemberton Ginther