It was quite the swankiest spread of the year--paper napkins if you please and as a big special surprise, ice cream suckers.
There was a pile of white napkinson the buffet, but every available inch in the kitchen was stacked with plates and there were rows and rows of tall thin glasses waiting to be filled.
An' I'm not planning to spend the heyday of my girlhood ironing napkins for you, Pauly Pet!
It is a big place, but it is falling to pieces as this is.
Harry announced, "because they may get cold," and at this order everybody broke the freshly roasted potatoes into the paper napkins and touched it up with the extra butter that had come along.
The guests took as much as they could hold in their hands and, after eating, dipped them in water or wiped them in napkins which, it will be observed, the waiters carried.
As napkins were then unknown, the guests wiped their fingers on towels and in pieces of specially prepared dough, which were thrown under the table after being used.
No napkins are provided, pieces of coarse brown paper being used in their stead.
It had been a joy to do that, to spread the cloth so that the creases would come in just the right place, and the large initial 'D' show without being too conspicuous, and to fold the napkinsprettily and arrange the dishes.
When she had reported a whole dozennapkins hemmed and initialed, he had thought it would be jolly to have nice linen.
The last decent tablecloth was cut up into napkins a month ago.
South Sea Islands will have to wait another week for their napkins and tablecloths.
Why, only last week we sent off a large box of soap to the natives of East Africa and now we are getting a box of napkins and tablecloths ready.
Max," she said, "won't you go out and get enough napkinsto put at all the places?
The paper napkins on this table were the only ones in the room.
For kitchen wear, three smaller coarser cloths are required, and, if you wish to inculcate habits of nicety in your maids, three napkins apiece must be provided.
First, there should be six Irish linen tablecloths for parlour use and three breakfast cloths; six fine table-napkins for every member of the family.
The sight of a dozen napkins brought by Laura made me shudder, and the good woman imagined that she afforded me some consolation by telling me that as much linen could be soaked with a bottle of blood.
I threw myself on the bed, and remained there, almost stunned, for more than six hours, until Laura's return from the convent with twenty napkins entirely soaked.
Breakfast napkins are smaller than dinner napkins, and the small fringed napkins are not out of place.
Satisfactory breakfast cloths and napkins are made of linen sheeting, fringed, hemstitched, or carefully hemmed by hand, and in this way a pretty cloth can be had for less money than in any other.
Knives, forks, and spoons must all be laid straight, but not near enough together to touch, and napkins and dishes must be precisely placed, else confusion and riot will result.
It has been said that these napkins were handkerchiefs, not table napkins; but I think the way they are classed in inventories does not so indicate.
Much was the hurry and confusion--cloths and napkins were at hand to make all clean.
There was real damask upon it, with napkins and silver forks and wine from the hotel, with all sorts of garnitures of Yang's contrivance.
It is not necessary to speak of the napkins or pads; these are universally used, and readily bought, sterilized, and ready for use.
Try to serve these very daintily on a tray, using the napkins which you have all ready.
Tie up the candy in the Easter napkins just as you did in the Christmas napkins, and let the children arrange pretty Easter baskets.
It is a good plan to have a supply of paper napkins and you can buy them by the hundred, or by the dozen.
If mother is afraid to let you have her pretty table cloth or lunch cloth for fear it might get stained, you can get a lovely paper table cloth with napkins and little dishes, for twenty-five cents.
On the eighth morning he reached a fire so large that he could see nothing else on either side, but when he struck it with the napkins it parted, and stood on each hand like a wall.
Strike it three times with the three napkins and it will part in two.
Not long after, Peter came in and picked up the three napkins which the maiden had dropped on the threshold.
The fire had to be passed through before he had gone very far, and when he came to it, Peter shook the napkins three times in the flames and a passage opened for trim.
Peter then told her the whole story, and of his striking the flames with the three napkins as he had been told to do.
So after Peter had gone out to the fields, she crept up to his room and stole the napkins and then set off as fast as she could to the fire by a path she knew of over the hill.
A roll of paper towels for drying dishes and for use as napkins, or cloth dish towels and paper napkins are also useful.
When napkins are to be washed at once, or when they are paper napkins, they need not be folded.
Clean white oil cloth and paper napkins make an attractive looking table.
Plates, silver and napkins are conveniently arranged on a laid table in the case of the "buffet" lunch.
A tea creamer, cut sugar, a saucer of sliced lemon, and cups and saucers with spoon on cup saucer, as well as tea napkinscomplete the service.
Or the plates and napkins may be handed the guests as they enter by a waitress stationed at the door, before they are served by the young girls.
It is taken from some damask table napkins which were bought many years back at Brussels; not at a shop in the ordinary way, but privately, from the family to whom they belonged.
The napkins were probably a gift, on the occasion, to some public functionary.
By the time they came back with the napkins the luncheon was all packed and the three ladies, hatted and ready to go, were sitting on the front porch waiting, so there was no more temptation to peek into the kitchen.
I have to go up to the store for paper napkins and your mothers say you may go along.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "napkins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
