Don't you know how annoying it is when there's a tall centrepiece and you can't see who's across the table from you?
She put a dish of ferns on for a centrepiece and a tray for tea for her mother at the end.
A centrepiece was put on the bare table with the fern-dish on it, and the two armchairs were pushed back in their places, one at each end.
Now get a pretty centrepiece and put that on in the middle, and bring the bunch of roses from the parlor; we will have them to-night instead of the fern-dish, because we want an especially nice table for you.
Put a white centrepiece in the middle of the table, and we will pile these in a flat dish on it instead of using the pot of ferns we sometimes have.
When examined more closely this Centrepiece exhibits not a duet but a trio of madness; with the other two there mingles a third form of what may be called madness, the professional madness of the court fool.
All the separate lines of action have thus moved to a common centre, and their concentration in a common focus gives opportunity for the climax of passion which forms the centrepiece of the play.
The Centrepiece a duet, or by the addition of the Fool, a trio of madness.
Finally Tone-Clash rises into Tone-Storm in such rare climaxes as thecentrepiece of Lear, [=iii.
Decline after the Centrepiece from violent madness to shattered intellect.
At the next table he would have a word of praise for the simple and artistic effect which they had produced with a centrepiece of wood mosses and red berries.
To carry out this idea each table in this great hall has a centrepiece of ferns, mosses, or flowers gathered from the woods by the student selected by his or her companions to decorate the table for that week.
It was meant to be the centrepiece of some large fountain.
It is a fine bold thing, but the figure and centrepiece are unfortunately missing.
For a centrepiece she had a half shattered clay flower-pot containing a geranium plant which she had picked up from the deck outside the woman's cabin.
This centrepiece of the Empire style had been given by Napoleon, in 1812, to Count Martin de l'Aisne, grandfather of the present Count Martin-Belleme.
Belle had several articles to show, and even Brenda had persevered with hercentrepiece until hardly more than a quarter of the embroidery remained unfinished.
Belle's centrepiece was so elaborate that a whole afternoon showed hardly more than a single finished leaf, or one exquisitely wrought blossom.
Why, see here, Belle has left hercentrepiece behind her.
She now finished her modelling with a dainty centrepiece for the bride's table, and let me go with her when she carried it to the Vallejo mansion.
It would similarly appear that they were equally indebted to him for another of his bold replicas of nature in the fine Dessert Centrepiece (illustrated, p.
A massive centrepiece with stand on four richly moulded feet in French style is ornamented by heavily gadrooned architectural ornament.
The centrepiece and flange to hold the wheel to the arbor are turned and balanced.
After the centrepiece is put on the arbor, the whole is tried for balance, and corrected if necessary.
At the four corners place candlesticks with wax candles, and for a centrepiece have a large bouquet of artificial bachelors' buttons.
A pussy willow centrepiece would carry out the idea nicely, and add to the attractiveness of the table.
The supper table may have for its centrepiece a large blue stein with red tulips tumbling out of it.
A centrepiece of gold cloth or of any yellow silken material is effective--the edges may be quickly overcast by heavy rope silk in long and short stitch.
In the centre of the dining-table, upon a centrepiece embroidered with the emblems of good luck, stood a candelabra bearing green and white candles.
The tables were snowily linened, there were doilies in blue and white, and the centrepiece on each table was a glass dish filled with small bunches of splendid blue and white grapes.
Upon a pretty centrepiece of silver-spangled tulle may be placed a silver or glass bowl containing twenty-five white roses.
The tablecloth may be of paper, edged with paper lace, the centrepiece of paper roses, the candle-shades composed of their petals, while the ices may be served in boxes held in the hearts of paper roses.
Encircling the centrepiece was a large horseshoe of cardboard covered with green paper.
For a centrepiece for the table, will use a large tin cake pan, with an opening in the centre, in which a small fish horn can be placed, the cake pan and fish horn both being filled with flowers.
The little thicket of grapefruit trees served as the centrepiece of Ethel Blue's dinner table, and every one admired all over again its glossy leaves and sturdy stems.
The girls covered the bleakness of the plain tables by placing a centrepiece of radiating ferns flat on the wood.
The trouble with the little garden we've had is that there weren't enough flowers for more than the centrepiece in the dining-room.
Mother has some in a larger bowl and it is really lovely as a centrepiece on the dining room table.
You don't object to a silver centrepieceon the dining table, do you?
I don't know anything more irritating than to have to dodge about the centrepiece to see your opposite neighbor.
When all the linen necessary is on the table, place exactly in the middle of the linen centrepiece the vase of flowers, plant or dish of fruit which is to be the centre decoration of the table.
When the tablecloth has been laid, a centrepiece of linen or lace is sometimes placed upon it in the centre of the table.
The portrait forming the centrepiece is like that on the values of 1868 though the medallion is enclosed within a "corded" circle instead of an ordinary plain line.
But the centrepiece and great attraction was a little old man, in a black, ready-made surtout, which was obviously a recent purchase.
She thought of raising her soon, of making of her a centrepiece for a fountain.
The centrepiece may be of lace over pale pink silk, and rows of baby ribbon may be drawn across the table, three or four strands each way, with a bunch of the ribbon where they cross.
The table should be laid with a cloth rather than with doilies, and the centrepiece may be a birch-bark canoe, planted with ferns.
Such a centrepiece is especially pretty, under the real flowers, and violet and white china, if you have it, will make an attractive table.
For this, have a centrepiece of Easter lilies in a tall slender glass vase, or have three such vases down the table, if it is an oblong one, or several grouped around one larger one in the middle if it is round.
Illustration] The centrepiece may be a wicker cradle painted white and tied with white ribbons, filled with delicate flowers and asparagus ferns, and the ices may be in cradle shape also.
Lay the table in pink; have a lace centrepieceover silk, a tin quart measure in the middle filled with pink bridesmaid's roses, and pink candles with pink rose shades, if the day is dark.
If the meal is an informal one a centrepiece may be arranged which will amuse the guests.
The table should be covered with a white cloth, as elaborate as one possesses, and the centrepiece should be of lace.
Use doilies in preference to a cloth, and a centrepiece of lace, or embroidered linen and lace.
Put the central vase on a lace centrepiece laid over pink silk, and if your doilies are of lace they, too, may be lined with pink for this one occasion.
For this occasion it is more appropriate to use a cloth of plain damask or heavy linen and lace rather than the usual doilies, the centrepiece being of lace.
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