Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas --entire strangers to them --and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social
breakfast table --all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes --looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.
The milking progressed, till towards the end Tess and Clare, in common with the rest, could hear the heavy
breakfast table dragged out from the wall in the kitchen by Mrs Crick, this being the invariable preliminary to each meal; the same horrible scrape accompanying its return journey when the table had been cleared.
She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women; and--you understand--we meet in the morning at the
breakfast table.
One morning he found on the
breakfast table a small packet which had been sent on by post from the late Mrs.
It had become afternoon, yet there wasn't a thing for their luncheon except two apples which the shaggy man had taken from the
breakfast table.
In some publication she ran across a brief printed note to the effect that French women were just beginning to wear fascinating beruffled caps at the
breakfast table.
It must be something extraordinary that could make Colonel Brandon leave my
breakfast table so suddenly.
Old files of magazines and newspapers were searched through, and the romantic and historic Elam Harnish, Adventurer of the Frost, King of the Klondike, and father of the Sourdoughs, strode upon the
breakfast table of a million homes along with the toast and breakfast foods.
This being said aloud, gave Mr Lammle an opportunity, as he came with Mr Boffin from the window to the
breakfast table, of taking up his dear and honoured wife.
After making the
breakfast table sufficiently uncomfortable and wishing plaintively that Jane wouldn't always insist on being sick at the same time she was, she decided that Rebecca must go to the meeting in their stead.
As to Porthos, all his attention was concentrated on the allurements of the
breakfast table.
Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the
breakfast table.
