March caught up his napkin and ran round the partition wall, and Kenby rose with his napkin and hurried to meet him.
Also a napkin to wipe the lips, especially if the patient be a man.
If a patient prefers drinking from a glass, and can be raised in bed, always lay a napkin under the chin before you give the drink, and on no account have the glass or cup more than half full, if you do, it will surely spill.
He is glad of a good row and a little fun after working so hard all the week;" and Merry shook a red napkin as a welcoming signal.
Yarse," drawled Billy in the true dandified style, drawing his napkin across his lips as he spoke.
Norton himself, with his napkin in his hand--he was dining with a set of fellows from the Garrick, and he swaggered in and sat down at our table.
One admirer sent him a napkin enclosed in a plated silver ring.
After inspecting both with grave deliberation, he grunted his appreciation, and proceeded to thrust the napkin into his mouth.
This made me laugh, for as thenapkin might very well have caught and set the room on fire, the idea of the confusion which would have ensued excited my hilarity.
I put back my bed in its place, and on emptying the napkin the next morning I took care so to dispose the fragments that they should not be seen.
When Lawrence had wished us good night and had shut us up till the next day, I got out my lamp, which I found to be empty, the napkin having sucked up all the oil.
I began by drawing back my bed, and after lighting my lamp I lay down on my belly, my pike in my hand, with a napkinclose by in which to gather the fragments of board as I scooped them out.
I blew out my lamp, and leaving my bar in the hole I threw into it the napkin with the shavings it contained, and as swift as lightning I replaced my bed as best I could, and threw myself on it just as the door of my cell opened.
He immediately spread out the table-napkin with which he had lately taken the measure of the piece of shagreen.
The two friends spread out the table-napkin and laid the Magic Skin upon it.
Looking up at the napkin of sky let in through the walls of the vertical city, Marylin had learned to greet it almost every clear evening.
A little of herself up there in that beyond--that little napkin of beyond that her eyes had the lift to see.
After each dish they dipped their fingers in a basin presented to them, and then wiped them upon a napkin that they carried with them as we take our handkerchiefs with us.
If they were having a company dinner, Margaret was told, the bread and butter plate would not be used, for then a dinner roll would be laid in the napkin and no butter served at all.
It was not long before the princess brought out the napkin and the flask, that you may be sure, and when the children were all full and glad, she cut them out clothes with her golden scissors.
That day it was just the same story with the napkin as with the scissors and the flask.
I dare say she has far more need of this napkin than I;' and so she asked if she might have leave to give her the napkin, and she got it.
On being seated, the napkin is unfolded and laid across the lap.
If a guest for a day or so, or for more than one meal, note what your hostess does with her napkin and follow her.
At any function the napkin is not folded, but laid at the side of the plate at the conclusion of the repast.
The waitress holds the dish upon a folded napkin on the flat of her hand, and low down.
Long, white cotton stockings reaching to the napkin should be worn all summer, and not short socks.
It is well to have a napkin and extra spoon and fork at hand if it is necessary to taste the preparation.
They are sometimes so thin and copious as to soak through the napkin and saturate the bed.
They cannot be taught not to wet the napkin until they are some months older.
If a visitor for one meal only, the napkin is not folded at the conclusion of a meal.
When it is not wanted for a voyage, it is made of so many pieces and with so much skill, that Frey can fold it together like a napkin and carry it in his pocket.
A white napkin and a bowl for laving the fingers completed the preparation, as Uel supposed.
The pot he placed on the coals in the brazier, and soon a delicate volume of steam was pouring from the spout; after handling the box daintily as if the contents were vastly precious, he deposited it unopened by the napkin and bowl.
This appeal, so pathetic to the speaker, caused Mrs. Barry again to raise her napkin to her rebellious lips.
She was forced to raise her napkin several times, not to dry tears, but to conceal smiles which would have been sure to add fuel to the flame.
Mrs. Barry looked at him helplessly, and this time when she put up hernapkin she touched a corner of her eye.
Here David folded his napkin and put it in the ring, and John finished the cup of clear coffee which Aunt Polly, rather under protest, had given him.
To preserve the same napkin for the same person, each member of the family has a given number, and the napkins are numbered to correspond, or else are slipped into ivory rings, which are numbered.
Some take a fork, and lay a piece on the napkin or tumbler by each plate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "napkin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broom; cleaning; device
