The latter caused the sailor to choke in his serviette and he looked up to catch the sparkling brown eyes of Janet McKinnon.
They were in a basket--a big basket with a serviette over the top!
Mariana found her card (as the dinner was a stately one) on her serviette between Kollomietzev and Kolia.
Kollomietzev sat on her left, and as he unfolded his serviette screwed up his face and smiled, as much as to say, "Well, now let us begin our little comedy!
She opened the door wide, so that the room was lighter, and she saw him more clearly, with the muffler held up to his face just as she had seen him hold the serviette before.
This was a lie, justified in the utterer's opinion as a repulse to Mr. Mardon's vulgar inquisitiveness, such inquisitiveness as might have been expected from a fellow who tucked his serviette under his chin.
He detested the fellow, quite inexcusably, perhaps because his serviette was tucked under his chin; but he saw that the fellow was one of your determined talkers, who always win in the end.
Gyáli with his serviette wiped from his face the traces of insult and with dignified coldness said: "With men in such a condition no dispute is possible.
The poor boy thought he had gained a respite, and that the messenger had come with the white serviette to invite him to supper: he smiled at Fanny entreating compassion, and then, when he saw me, became embarrassed.
You say, "Hand me that serviette ring and I'll show you a trick.
Then lift the centre serviettewith your left hand, and show the two pellets under it.
Having previously placed your serviette over your knees, with the prepared apple in it, drop the apple just selected and pick up the former with your right hand while you turn your plate over with your left hand.
You then lift up the side of the serviette nearest to you and at once produce the card.
Then lift the serviette on your right with your left hand (to show that the pellet is still there) and transfer it to your right, holding it with your thumb on top and fingers underneath, and re-cover the pellet.
Lift the serviette as you speak, and show the pellet has gone; lift up the centre serviette, and the three pellets will be found together.
When the company are looking at the card slip your hand under the serviette and turn the pack over, and, of course, you can at once detect the "faced" card when it is replaced.
Turn the serviette over, and show the pellet has gone.
He said I was not to open the box until I put the serviette on the table, and that it had to be put by Sir Charles's plate.
On the table lay the report of Merton, the analyst, concerning the stains upon the serviettewhich Harley had sent from the house of the late Sir Charles Abingdon.
Briefly, it stated that the serviette had been sprinkled with some essential oil, the exact character of which Merton had found himself unable to determine, its perfume, if it ever possessed any, having disappeared.
From the soup tureen to the serviette rings, Benson, I wish you to duplicate the dinner table as I remember it, paying particular attention to the exact position of each article.
The serviette which Paul Harley held outstretched was covered all over with dark purple spots.
Tis that serviette St. Cecilia took at Nice;" and opening my trunk soon had it in my hands, holding it up by two corners for the men to see and explaining how it came into my possession.
Had theserviette and ring ever been on the table at all?
And assuredly that serviette and ring would reappear on the morrow.
When I woke up the first time in the night, it struck me like a flash: Had I taken the serviette and ring up with the notes?
And then, when the meal finally did begin Mrs. Maldon's serviette and silver serviette-ring had vanished.
Moreover, the ring was not in the serviette drawer of the sideboard.
Well, I must have picked up the serviette and ring with the bank-notes, you see.
I was bound to get up, and I turned the gas on, and there the serviette and ring were at the bottom of the drawer, but no money!
Rachel, who was nearest, opened the wardrobe and immediately discovered the missing serviette and ring, which had the appearance of a direct dramatic proof of Mrs. Maldon's story.
She remembered casting away a soiled serviette and replacing it with a clean one in accordance with Mrs. Maldon's command for the high occasion.
We lost my serviette and ring last evening at supper.
And yet it was inconceivable that he had taken a serviette and ring in mistake.
IV Thomas Batchgrew was saying-- "It beats me how anybody in their senses could pick up a serviette and put it way for a pile o' bank-notes.
At one moment Mrs. Maldon thought that she herself had seen theserviette and ring on the table early in the evening; but at the next she thought she had not.
Mr. Batchgrew had of course horribly disarranged the table, and in the upset the serviette and ring might have fallen unnoticed into the darkness beneath the table.
If you ask me," said Rachel, "she never took any of the notes upstairs at all; she left them all somewhere downstairs and only took the serviette upstairs.
He stepped nimbly to the door, and the serviette ring that Sanders threw with unerring aim caught his angular shoulder as he vanished.
The girl folded her serviette and walked to the window, and stood looking out over the yellow stretch of the deserted parade-ground.
She should unfold her serviette and place it on her lap.
A gentleman should do the same with his serviette and bread, placing the one across his knees, and the other at his right or left hand.
A spotless servietteand tray cloth, bright silver, a bunch of flowers and a ribbon to match them in colour for tying the serviette (the colour of which can be changed from day to day) should not be forgotten.
Shulgovich got up and placed his serviette on the arm of his chair.
The fable that the picture of La Virgen con el Nino Jesus was painted upon a serviettehas no foundation, as can readily be seen by examining the panel upon which the study is painted.
Murillo, according to the fable, took the serviette which the cook was carrying, and with a few rapid touches of his brush created the picture, which is still noteworthy for the brilliancy of its tints.
During the winter he pursued his studies; and when summer returned, it found him, with serviette across his arm, earning the necessary fees for his next winter's course of study.
The boys also work in ivory, turning serviette rings with great accuracy and skill.
He rose before the fish was served, with a wine-glass in one hand and hisserviette in the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serviette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broom; cleaning; device
