When she returned home from that visit I eagerly asked her about the wonderful luncheonsat the White House, where I had so frequently sat spellbound.
In spite of my daughter’s experience, however, I can say with truth that there never were such luncheons as those luncheons at the White House during my brother’s life there.
At the breakfasts and luncheons we had the pleasure of our lady contributors' company, but that night there were only men, and because of our great strength we survived.
He liked coming to Boston, especially for those luncheons and dinners in which the fertile hospitality of our publisher, Osgood, abounded.
I would rather do the marketing for our humble breakfasts and teas, or talk over the day's luncheons and dinners with Mistress Brodie of the Pettybaw Inn and Posting Establishment, than go to the opera.
Besides her Monday dinners to artists and her Wednesday dinners to the literary world, she gave private luncheons to a select few who were especially congenial.
This exception, which stood out as a beacon light in an ocean of literature worthy of the Stone Age, was a small pamphlet issued by the Michigan Agricultural College on luncheons in rural schools.
Sound doctrine was preached on the need of the children for substantial and warm noon meals, and the comparative ease and economy with which such luncheonscould be provided at the school house.
Swann was one of the most faithful attendants at the Sunday luncheons given by the Duc de X----, whose father and uncle had been among our most prominent statesmen in the reign of Louis Philippe.
Are luncheons served in your school free, or at low cost?
III Milt was punctual and the friends ate one; of Madame Felicé's excellent luncheons in a receptive mood.
I know all about your promenades, your luncheons in darkest Martin's, your park rides and presumable holding hands in three languages.
Returning to the original simile, the Ooley-cow was willing to be milked for golf balls and luncheons and caddie hire.
Nobody knows why they bolt their luncheons and scuttle out to the first tee, nor where that speed goes as soon as they drive and start down the course.
Some people," the latter remarked, as she seated herself, "find fault with me for going on with my luncheons this season.
Do you remember a suggestion of mine at one of those historic luncheons of Lady Anselman's?
Her luncheons and breakfasts, picked up anywhere at groceries or push carts, amounted, when she was working, to about 12 cents a day.
The other fact to be remarked in Betty's account is that she spent 60 cents a week for club dues and the theatre, and only 50 cents for all her casual sidewalk breakfasts and luncheons from the push carts.
The Union and this club meant more to Rita than the breakfasts and luncheons she dispensed with, and more, apparently, than dress, for which she had spent only $20 in a year and a half.
Picnic and Travelling Luncheons 42 Choose a drawer or shelf on which to keep all the neat boxes which otherwise would be thrown away.
If picnic luncheons are frequent in summer and the waitress assists the cook in putting them up, she can save much time and many mistakes of omission by writing out a list of all the things ordinarily needed for such occasions.
Those are for Sunday night suppers and company luncheons and to put with too plain a pudding when somebody drops in at dinner-time.
There were not only pennies, but dimes and even quarters; quite enough to ensure the financial success of the luncheons they had planned for.
But be very careful not to try and cut down on your luncheons by doing without substantial dishes.
Really the greatest help in learning to keep house is to understand how to have good luncheons at a small expense; when you know that, you know how to do both breakfast and dinner better.
By careful planning they could manage the luncheons and dinner so that they could be ready in advance and the long afternoons could be devoted to rest and reading.
I want to give three small luncheons and have everything as nice and pretty as possible, and you know we used up our savings of two months on our dinner-parties.
Unfortunately you cannot have exactly everything you can think of, for your luncheons must be made up of odds and ends, usually what is to be found in the refrigerator.
I did not say which luncheons were made from left-overs and which were not, but some of them are, you can see for yourself.
Now while you have your book there, do you not think it would be a good idea to write out some more possible luncheons like those we have had, and average the price, so you can have some sort of a guide to go by?
We all spend a good deal of money on luncheons and dinners and spreads.
In spite of the constant round of theaters, dinners, luncheons and sight-seeing into which she was whirled, she took time to look sharply about her for those to whom Christmas meant only a name.
King came to Christ Church in 1873), to speak of Sunday luncheonsat the house of the Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, and of Dr.
There have always been some houses where the luncheons were much more famous than the dinners.
Helen's obstinacy refused to yield, and off we went, taking our luncheons with us.
Chitty used to prepare my luncheons for me every day; on Saturdays he catered for two.
At bachelor dinners and at luncheons cheese is served with salad.
However, luncheons on Sunday at one or two o'clock are in New York frequently called breakfasts, because I believe many fashionable people do not want the impression to go abroad that even once a week they dine in the middle of the day.
When I speak of the "diner-out," I include under this title the bachelor guest not only at dinners, but also at luncheons and at suppers.
Some of the smartest bachelors in New York give delightful little dinners and luncheons at their apartments, at which the maid who has cooked the meal, dressed in white apron and black gown, also serves it.
A few clubs have a ladies' restaurant attached, where members may take their families or give dinners, or where the wives of members have the privilege of giving luncheons or other entertainments.
Informal invitations to breakfasts and luncheonswill be treated in the chapter on that subject.
In this country we have no special law of precedence, and these bridal luncheons are more or less informal.
Here one can get the finest Italian peasant meal in the city, and many of the Italian merchants and bankers still go there for their luncheons every day, preferring it to the more pretentious establishments.
Your luncheons and dinners can be gotten in your rooms or at the restaurants just as you are inclined.
They went out little, except to visit the old Duchess of Carmona, who evidently did all she could to advance her son’s interests with invitations to luncheons and dinners; but try as I might I was never able to obtain an interview.
They say we never give invitations to luncheons and dinners as people of other countries do; that a few calls are exchanged, and that is all, in an intercourse, it may be, of many years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "luncheons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
