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There were bright bits of Turnerish pictures on the gray walls, a mass of gorgeous autumn-leaves in the soft wool of the carpet, a dainty white-spread table in the middle of the room, jars of flowers everywhere, flowers that had caught most passion and delight from the sun, -- scarlet and purple fuchsias, heavy-breathed heliotrope.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

If they could only be seen, how comfortable they look in their neat white-spread beds, much pain would be spared them.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

Daisies that waken all mistaken white-spread in expectancy to meet

Piccadilly Circus at Night: Street Walkers David Herbert 1916

Daisies that waken all mistaken white-spread in ex - pectancy to meet

New Poems 1907

He saw a white-spread table, with Winsome seated opposite to himself, tall, fair, and womanly, the bright heads of children between them.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

-- We grant it you, though there are many in the Valley who will not agree, but not one more fitted to break the bread of communion before the white-spread tables.

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

And soon the little white-spread breakfast-table, with it rolls and fruit, was aglow with flowers, and a little bunch lay on each plate.

Eleanor Humphry Ward 1885

I daresay the parishioners gossipped about the absence of their vicar's wife from the Sacrament, and indeed I remember the pain and trembling wherewith, on the first “Sacrament Sunday” after my return, I rose from my seat and walked quietly from the church, leaving the white-spread altar.

Autobiographical Sketches Besant, Annie 1885

Dinner was now announced, and Mrs. Hope led the way into a pretty room hung with engravings and old plates after the modern fashion, where a white-spread table stood decorated with wild-flowers, candle-sticks with little red-shaded tapers, and a pyramid of plums and apricots.

Clover Susan Coolidge 1870

They can but see the white-spread sails, and the black hull underneath them.

The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850