At the head of his dinner-table, where before each guest was placed a menu carefully written in his eldest daughter's handwriting, Horace Pendyce supped his soup.
And while shesupped he kept glancing at her, trying to make up his mind to words.
He was very often joined at his mid-day meal by resident friends and acquaintances, and often supped at the Igel after a concert with a party of musicians.
If he supped alone at the Igel, he preferred to take his place in a corner behind the house-door, which was screened from the taproom by a red curtain and was just large enough to hold a table and bench, occupied in slack hours by the manager.
I was surprised at the sight of an elegant carriage; I enquired to whom it belonged, and I was told that it was the carriage of a young nobleman who had supped with Mdlle.
I supped at Silvia's, and as the evening was quieter than the night before, I had time to congratulate myself on all the friendship they shewed me.
We supped together, and although the meal was a rich and delicate one we did it little honour.
After we had supped with the actress, Patu fancied a night devoted to a more agreeable occupation, and as I did not want to leave him I asked for a sofa on which I could sleep quietly during the night.
I have not left her, for we supped together yesterday evening; but we no longer live together as lovers, that is all.
I could not touch anything, my heart was too full, but my dear little wife supped with a good appetite.
I dressed myself to go out, and while I was at my toilet Vesian came in and told me that he did not like to go into his sister's room because the gentleman who had supped with her had just arrived.
His blacks lay ready for him in the coffin-bed, and Pete, glancing at them at intervals, supped as slowly as he could.
Having supped once in a fashionable restaurant, he was satisfied for a fortnight or so with a sausage and onions at home.
The world has supped so full with battles, that its modes of thought and many of its rules of conduct are incarnadined with blood, as the bones of swine, feeding on madder, are said to become red.
We supped soon after one; and then everybody unmasked, and a number of acquaintances we found, though we had found out many before.
The same reason held good for eating a supper as for eating the dinner; and in short they supped and sat till after two, and then, by mutual consent, dismissed the parson, and all retired.
This would, therefore, render it very probable that what follows was spoken in the vicinity of the house in which they had supped rather than on the outskirts of the city.
Whether of the twain call you them syllabubs and custard pies as you set afore us when we supped last with you, Mistress Hall?
Cardinal Gonzaga and De Praet supped with the bride and bridegroom that evening, to the sweet melodies of the Duke's flutes and viols.
He walked from Bristol to Westbury, where he supped with Dean Barlow, a brother of his friend the Bishop of St. Davids, who made him heartily welcome, and invited him to be his travelling companion the next day to Pembrokeshire.
Hewer, who supped with us, about the ticket office and the knaveries and extortions every day used there, and particularly of the business of Mr. Carcasse, whom I fear I shall find a very rogue.
Hewer's mother was, and Mrs. Turner, our neighbour, and supped with us.
Supped upon these cakes, of which I have eat none since we lived at Westminster.
Among other things, my Lord Crew did tell me, with grief, that he hears that the King of late hath not dined nor supped with the Queen, as he used of late to do.
Batelier come and spent the evening talking with us, and supped with us, and so to bed.
In the evening comes Mr. Pelling, and he sat and suppedwith us; and very good company, he reciting to us many copies of good verses of Dr.
The prince de Soubise, who supped with us that evening, asked the duc de Duras if he had read the "
Louis XV generally supped in my apartments every evening, unless indeed, by way of change, I went to sup with him.
He supped the same evening with Louis XV at a table with four and twenty ladies of the court, selected from amongst those most celebrated for the charms of their persons or their wit.
I declare I would rather have supped with Elsie out of the spoon tied to the oven rake.
We had supped so full of surprises that day, that at this point I think hardly anything would have sufficed us or come up to our demands!
The queen dined and supped alone, with very few attendants.
As for the poorer sort, it is needless to talk of their order of repast, for they dined and supped when they could.
The constable and his attendants were lighted home by half an hundred halberdiers with torches, and, after the fatigues of the day, supped in private.
The merchants took dinner at noon, and, in London, supped at six.
But once my Lord Gambara supped with us, and he was light and trivial as ever, an incarnation of frivolity and questionable jests, apparently entirely unconscious of Fifanti's chill reserve and frequent sneers.
When I had supped and after night had fallen I went upstairs to the library, and, shutting myself in, I attempted to read, lighted by the three beaks of the tall brass lamp that stood upon the table.
We supped there that night in silence at about the hour that poor Gino Falcone would be taking his departure.
I supped alone that night with no other company than Busio's, who ministered to my needs.
Colonel Despienne had quarters at the 'Sign of the Pheasant,' and it was there that we supped together.
He and Lisette and I supped together in his rooms, and all my dangers were forgotten.
We supped together, and he retired almost at once.
It was in this way: the Duke and his brother Cesare, then Cardinal of Valencia, supped at the house of their mother, the Lady Vannozza.
The cardinal received me in the little chamber where we hadsupped with Machiavelli.
Philoxenes, of Cythera, supped one night with Dionysius, tyrant of Sicily.
The Hebrews supped at the ninth hour, that is to say, about three o’clock in the afternoon.
On Christmas eve, the great hall of the palace being illuminated with a thousand lamps artificially disposed, the king and queen supped in it; the princess being seated at the same table, next to the cloth of estate.
The day after their arrival they were conducted in state to court, where they supped with the queen, and afterwards partook of a "goodly banquet," with all manner of entertainment till midnight.
Howsoever, for all that, they laid their lugs in every thing that lay before them, and what they could not eat with forks they supped with spoons; so it was all to one purpose.
I had no great scruple to do this, as I thought Benjie would likely sleep for an hour, being wearied with the joggling of the cart, and having supped a mutchkin bowlful of Luckie Barm's broo and bread.
When Cæsar had come to him and supped with him, as a prince with one of his subjects, his misery had been great.
He has supped with Pompey, and says that when he talks to Pompey everything seems to go well: no one can be more gracious than Pompey.
Johnson had supped the night before at Mrs. Abington's with some fashionable people whom he named; and he seemed much pleased with having made one in so elegant a circle.
At night* Mr. Johnson and I supped in a private room at the Turk's Head coffee-house, in the Strand.
At night I suppedwith him at the Mitre tavern, that we might renew our social intimacy at the original place of meeting.
Johnson had supped the night before at Mrs. Abington's, with some fashionable people whom he named; and he seemed much pleased with having made one in so elegant a circle.
One night when Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London, and sat till about three in the morning, it came into their heads to go and knock up Johnson, and see if they could prevail on him to join them in a ramble.
Soon afterwards, he supped at the Crown and Anchor tavern, in the Strand, with a company whom I collected to meet him.
On Friday, March 31, I supped with him and some friends at a tavern.
Mr. Henderson, with whom I had sauntered in the venerable walks of Merton College, and found him a very learned and pious man, supped with us.
On Thursday, July 28, we againsupped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house.
Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers.
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