In the advancing shadow, on the pile of broken wheels on the work-bench, on keg and barrel, they sat puffing their post-prandial pipes and listening.
To my mind this was something more than the post-prandial levity it was meant to be.
There was a dinner at Delmonico's, from whose program of post-prandial oratory I had purposely caused my own name to be omitted.
Left to himself Mr. Todd elevated his feet to the railing, as if to indulge in a prolonged period of post-prandial meditation.
They are unanswerable," said the Colonel, and consulted his favorite ante-prandial refreshment.
Sharlee was alone in the room, concluding the post-prandial chores with the laying of the Turkey-red cloth.
We must have the latest thought in its latest expression; the page must be newly turned like the morning bannock; the pamphlet must be newly opened like the ante-prandial oyster.
It is credible that these post-prandial exercitations were often enlivened by sparkling quips and droll occurrences; but it is less easy to believe that they were characterised by severe thought and logical exactness.
Illustration: Post-Prandial Pessimists SCENE--The smoking-room at the Decadents.
The drawing "Post-Prandial Pessimists" is not so sympathetic--which means that it is not so intimate in touch and full of knowledge.
Indeed, the feeling that one was listening to an entertainment which the public could not have for love or money added not a little, I imagine, to the sense of pleasure in those who took part in the post-prandial entertainment.
Often after our Saturday dinner at the Junior Garrick Club, an association which I joined some time after my regular engagement as taster of new plays, I have heard the venerable man make this boast in a post-prandial speech.
I was smoking my post-prandial cigar at the time, at peace with all the world.
Dinner was over on board the Thetis, and the three occupants of the saloon, with Milsom, had adjourned to the top of the deck-house to smoke their post-prandial cigars and enjoy the welcome coolness of the night air.
His translations from Symposius were probably intended for the post-prandial delectation of the monks.
Find it again and you revive that other lost art of prandial conversation.
They had just finished luncheon and were lounging about a little spring enjoying their post-prandial pipes.
She wore them on her corsage that night at dinner and later, coming on him smoking his post-prandial pipe under the stars, thanked him graciously.
Our post-prandial smoke has been too long postponed.
Having ordered my dinner and found my room, I threw down my knapsack and then came out again to smoke an ante-prandial pipe, listen to the evensong of the stream, and think great thoughts.
