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  • Military bands playing, Yeomen of the Guard marching in, a tea-tent dispensing delicious sandwiches and slices of Victoria Sponge with freshly-brewed Tea and excellent iced coffee...and a superb, beautifully-timed moment when the band's music drew gently to a close, and everyone rose.

    An extraordinary day... Joanna Bogle 2008

  • Military bands playing, Yeomen of the Guard marching in, a tea-tent dispensing delicious sandwiches and slices of Victoria Sponge with freshly-brewed Tea and excellent iced coffee...and a superb, beautifully-timed moment when the band's music drew gently to a close, and everyone rose.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Joanna Bogle 2008

  • As a matter of fact Toni had felt, desperately, that she could not face the crowded tea-tent, where doubtless she would again meet her enemy, Lady

    The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes

  • Denis went to the tea-tent and borrowed a wooden bench and a small Union Jack.

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • "If only I could do things like that!" he thought, as he carried the bench back to the tea-tent.

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • "If only I could do things like that!" he thought, as he carried the bench back to the tea-tent.

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

  • Denis went to the tea-tent and borrowed a wooden bench and a small Union Jack.

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

  • The guests came thronging around to talk to the pretty queen, and then they all went to the tea-tent.

    Patty's Suitors Carolyn Wells 1902

  • As they walked towards the tea-tent, through the throng of clergymen and parasols and tanned men with field-glasses, and young bloods and pretty girls, she noted uneasily that his eyes wandered from her to these types of English beauty, these flower-faces under witching hats.

    The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

  • It was they who helped Dick arrange the tennis-matches, who pointed out to the young men of the party which was the tea-tent, and where the ices and claret-cup were to be found.

    Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

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