Everybody here expects me to do the regular coming out performance, teas and dinners and balls and the rest, with maybe a little discreet charity work thrown in, and possibly a paper on art or ethics for the literary club.
But the squires ate my dinners very readily for all that, and old Doctor Huff himself was compelled to allow that my venison and turtle were most orthodox.
We used to give away the broken meat from our suppers and dinners to scores of beggars who blessed us.
One Represented things--Parties in Parliament--Benevolent Societies, and British Hospitality in the form of astounding long dinners at which one drank healths and made speeches.
Naturally, I must see that my tea is good and that my dinners cannot be objected to.
He went to the little but exceedingly lively dinners the Gareth-Lawlesses gave and though he was understood not to be fond of dancing now and then danced with her at balls.
A great many people besides O'Grady order suppers, and dinners too, on the expectation of less than six hundred a year.
We used often to dine together in the evening, though thesedinners often included men of a higher stamp, and we sometimes drank too much, with jolly singing and playing at cards afterwards.
I thought Cambridge a bad place from good dinners and other temptations, but I find London no better, and I fear it may grow worse.
The menu, though, was stately enough, for the art of cookery was practised at Craig-y-Nos by a master who had earned the right to prepare dinners for Patti.
The delight of those luncheons and dinners at Craig-y-Nos is unforgettable.
He did not like going out, and very seldom went out to dinners and receptions, those affairs of which one grows weary in London, because there are so many of them, and the celebrity is so often a sacrifice.
I do not say that I had due confirmation of my theory from the talk of the fellow-sojourners whom one is always meeting at teas and lunches and dinners in Rome.
You must needs dine with me: go not you hence Till I haue thankt you: when dinners done Shew me this peece, I am ioyfull of your sights.
So soone as dinners done, wee'l forth againe My Alcibiades.
Dinners of many courses and wines of approved vintages seemed to her the superfluities but to him the necessaries of life.
The tragedy, whatever the rights of it, occurred after one of the weekly dinners of the Nottinghamshire County Club, at the Star and Garter Tavern in Pall Mall.
Connie, does your mother always servedinners like that?
Think of coming home with our appetites to the kind of dinners they used to serve us.
As it was, Mr. Weatherley felt dimly confident that this junior clerk of his was more accustomed to eight o'clock dinners than he was himself.
In times of expansion the Fabian Society has held dinners and soirées in London, many of which have been successful and even brilliant occasions, because the new members come in crowds and the old attend as a duty.
Social glasses of wine are my aversion; public dinners are my abomination; all species of gormandizing my utter scorn and contempt.
I confess that those world-famed English dinners which are not brightened by the presence of ladies have but little charm for me.
It sickened him to realize that those far-famed luncheons and dinners of Madame Steynlin were being devoured by a savage like this.
All dinners in New York, you must understand, are not like this; this was a grand dinner.
Necessarily I had to attend many public dinners and even to make many speeches; the people gathered on such occasions always rose en masse as a tribute to the uniform which I wore.
These dinners were great occasions for our men, particularly as they were presided over by Miss Voysey, the Admiral's niece.
Dinners at Admiralty House, therefore, were absolutely "dry," and in perfect keeping with American naval regulations.
At his Sunday dinners especially, one or two of the minor celebrities of the day were generally to be met, and it was to one of these gatherings that Mark was invited, as one of the natural consequences of the success of 'Illusion.
Mabel told mother she would rather not come to dinners and things when Vincent was coming, and once she did meet him, and she only just spoke to him.
And this is the constitution in Church and State which Conservative dinners toast!
All his thoughts were, how soon he could contrive to get back again; and he told them endless stories of actresses, and dinners at fashionable cafés.
Frequent were the Sunday dinnerswhich found Gay a guest at Mr. Rigby's villa; numerous the airy pasquinades which he left behind, and which made the fortune of his patron.
He grudged them nothing, so that they would not insist upon the reciprocity of cold-catching, and would eat his good dinners instead of insisting on his eating their bad ones.
His dinners were celebrated at least for their guests.
The dinners of both nations would be improved: the English would gain a delightful beverage, and the French, for the first time in their lives, would dine off hot plates.
At dinners in Japan wine is served hot and soup cold, and the yard is generally at the back of the house instead of the front.
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