I tried to retain my consciousness by walking the length of the room and back, over and over, but I had not the strength to keep it up, so I sat down on the table again, my back against the wall.
He refused dessert, and left the table early, excusing himself on the ground that he wanted to see Alex.
From the tablemy eyes traveled around the room, and stopped at the door of a closet.
While Halsey, looking stricken and white, was trying to smooth it out and read it, Gertrude had dropped her head on the table and was sobbing stormily.
It had been lifted on to the billiard-table and a sheet thrown over it; otherwise nothing had been touched.
Liddy had come back to the kitchen: the door to the basement stairs was double-barred, and had a table pushed against it; and beside her on the table was most of the kitchen paraphernalia.
I had time to get a hazy view of a small portable safe, a common woodentable and a chair--then the mantel door swung to, and clicked behind me.
She dropped beside the table and, burying her face in her arms broke into a storm of tears.
When she came in she was holding something in her hand, and she laid it on the dressing-table carefully.
Gertrude lifted her head at last and stared across the table at Halsey.
In the second place, I found on the edge of the billiard-table a charred cigar which had burned itself partly out, and a cigarette which had consumed itself to the cork tip.
His pipe, still warm, rested on the edge of the rail, and inside on the table his old gray hat showed that its owner had not gone far.
I admire your bravery and your candor, but while you continue the Outlaw of Torn, you may not break bread at the table of De Montfort as a friend would have the right to do.
The man, a great, tall black-haired and mustached nobleman, was pounding upon a table to emphasize his words, and presently he sprang up as though rushing toward the one to whom he had been speaking.
Norman of Torn stood with his back against a table in an angle of the room, and behind him stood Joan de Tany.
Not since Arthur of Silures kept his round table hath ridden forth upon English soil so true a knight as Norman man of Torn.
At the long tableupon which the evening meal was spread sat the entire household of the Baron, and here and there among the men were evidences of painful wounds but barely healed, while the host himself still wore his sword arm in a sling.
And the old man leaned far across the table so that his eyes, burning with an insane fire of venom, blazed but a few inches from those of the priest.
And as she approached the table he withdrew the cloth which covered the object that the man had placed there.
On the table were a loaf of black bread, an earthenware jar containing honey, a pitcher of milk and two drinking horns.
When you reach the tablethat bears the lamp, there will be a small doorway directly behind you.
He then sat at the table with Roger Leybourn and his lady, who had recovered from her swoon, and behind them on the rushes of the floor lay the body of De Fulm in a little pool of blood.
As the Baron fell, he struck heavily upon a table which supported the only lighted cresset within the chamber.
Then they pay in the stakes to Salome, which she lays on the table in front of her.
The next day she hid herself under the table to watch and find out.
Takes his cap from thetable and throws it to Barssegh.
Go home when thetable is set, and to church when it is almost over.
Sheriff looks at Barssegh in disgust, sits down by card table and writes.
OSSEP [taking up different articles from cardtable and throwing them on the floor].
The wine pitcher poured out sparkling wine into the glasses, and it wandered from one end of the table to the other.
In the Postmaster-General's Report for 1861 is a table (p.
The following table exhibits the amount of debentures issued by the several companies enumerated, and the average rates of interest on such debentures, as shown by the last published accounts.
Weber, in a letter from Munich written in 1812, says: "Fancy my delight when I beheld lying upon thetable of the hotel the play-bill with the magic name Armand.
It has been accepted as a model work by composers, and Beethoven was in the habit of keeping it by him on his writing-table for constant study and reference.
They all hurried and carried the table outside and laid it with a nice white table-cloth and put a plate for each; and, lastly, Granny brought out the steaming soup-tureen in state.
Tyltyl took no notice of the remark, stood up on his stool, caught hold of the tureen and dragged it towards him and upset it; and the hot soup trickled all over the table and down upon everybody's lap.
He had rolled under the tableand was snoring like a porpoise.
Usually, this great hall was quite empty; but now it had sofas in it and a gold table laid with fruits and cakes and creams and delicious wines, which Light's servants had just finished setting out.
Directly Hope Carolina forgot the reproof of mother eyes anent the table manners of well-brought-up children.
I've looked and looked, and I can't see any table in this room.
She gave a sudden movement and changed her tone sharply: "Oh, there's a spider on the table there, crawling toward me!
At the public dinner-table I sat opposite a lady in black, probably mourning.
When she reached for a dish of pickles standing on the table at a little distance from her, the lieutenant got up and, with a polite bow, took it and offered it to her.
I'll go further than that," continued the writer, striking his hand on the table impressively.
Lois' hospitality, never her strong point, had been much in abeyance lately; to have a fourth at the table would be a blessed relief.
Miss Skipwith was reading in her parlour, a white Persian cat dozing on a cushioned arm-chair beside her, some cups and saucers and a black teapot on a tray before her, and the rest of the table piled with books.
The table was laid, but they had not seated themselves.
He removed the cover of a modest dish of fish with a grand air, and performed all the services of the table with as much dignity as if he had never been anything less than a butler.
There was a modern deal dressing-table skimpily draped with muslin, and surmounted by the smallest of looking-glasses.
One would get away from the beaten ways of Cockney tourists, and one would escape the dreary monotony of a table d'hôte.
On the table near the window, his violin lay as he had left it.
Being absorbed in his own thoughts, Allison did not realise how unsociable he was, nor that the old man across the table from him perceived that they had reached the beginning of the end.
Rose sat opposite the head of the table and Isabel was placed at Madame's right.
He rang a bell that was on a table within his reach, and the nurse came in.
In a single glance, the guest noted that the table was perfectly appointed.
Juliet took careful note of the appointments of the table and dining-room, and of the gowns the other women wore.
Placid as she was, the table was not a cheerful place, for the faces of the other two were haggard and drawn, and neither made more than a pretence of eating.
Some unpleasantness had been caused at the breakfast table by a gentle hint from Juliet to the effect that the dog supply seemed somewhat in excess of the demand.
Yes, but it seems to me sometimes like nonsense to be cooking potatoes and frying fish down in a cave, when we could sit comfortably at a table at your house or ours, and have no trouble at all.
This was forwarded by library table post, and then there was nothing heard but the scratching of the tutor's pen.
The rest of the day was then spent in the pleasures of the table mainly provided by an old-fashioned barbecue, a baseball game and the inevitable game of peon.
And with a very majestic air Billy rose from the table and began to clear away the dishes.
On the top of Cyril's manuscript music on the tablelay a hot-water bottle.
It's Eliza and Rosa, and all the rest of those women who can get a meal on to the table all at once, so it's fit to eat!
It seems she knew nothing whatever about cooking, and her trials and tribulations in getting that dinner on to the table were only one degree worse than the dinner itself, according to her story.
On the kitchen table Bertram did see a book wide open, and, mechanically, he picked it up.
Over by the table in the glowing circle of the shaded lamp, sat Marie, Cyril's wife, a dainty sewing-basket by her side.
In spite of Bertram's tormenting gibes, Billy did, for some days, arrange her meals in accordance with the wonderful table of food given in "Correct Eating for Efficiency.
It gives a complete table for the exact balancing of food.
In the dining-room Bertram found no one, though the tablewas prettily set, and showed half a grapefruit at each place.
She dropped the paper; but there were still other quotations from the book there, she knew; and in a moment she was back at the tablereading them.
There hain't no one set this table much but me for more'n fifty years, an' I've got a sort of notion that nobody can do it just ter suit me.
And so Billy pored over her chessboard feverishly, tirelessly, having ever before her longing eyes the dear time when Bertram, across the table from her, should sit happily staring for half an hour at a move she had made.
Amuse yourself with seeing the public gardens, and other things worthy of inspection; or, if it pleases you, you can make the ascent of Table Mountain with your friend Swinton.
About a fortnight after the return of the wagons to Cape Town, a free trader cast anchor in Table Bay to take in water, and Alexander and the Major secured a passage in her to England.
There is a large body of gnoos and quaggas under that small hill to the westward; but there are better animals for the table when we get a little further to the northward.
It is an island a few miles from the mainland, close to Table Bay, upon which the Cape Town is built.
One peculiarity you will observe as you go along, which is, that the Dutch wife is a fixture at the little tea-table all day long.
Table Mountain was distinctly visible from the deck.
The accompanying table will show that, even with almost a year's advantage in the comparison, the Californians are behind the New-Yorkers in every event.
At this very moment she burst into the room, carrying a pile of school books, which she flung on the table with a resounding crash.
Dick won the princess, and in the bounteousness of his heart invited all the Knights and Ladies of the Round Table to visit him and see who was wiser than the Wizard.
On the tablein my study Sweetly smiling, round, and ruddy.
When Millicent's pathetic voice ceased there was silence in the room, and then from the table upon which Peggy's head was resting came peal after peal of laughter.
The ROUND TABLE will be so big and bright that it will accommodate more young people than you can count--all, in fact, who belong to the wonderful Order you all love.
There were a bed and a cot, some chairs, a rough table, a cook stove, and a few cooking and table dishes.
If you were invited out to dinner by a person you knew, do you think while you were sitting at his table you'd go hunting about in your head for some if that would end in your starving to death?
He heard her singing before he reached the gate, and was not a little delighted to find his wife sitting at her sewing, and Matilda putting the last dishes on the table for tea.
He wondered for the thousandth time how she could possibly love him and by what earthly miracle she had come to accept him, and how it would be always to have her across the table from him, his own table in his own house.
The general use which may be made of the table is obvious--but, in this particular cipher, we shall only very partially require its aid.
Rebecca took the lamp and set it on the table in the middle of the room without another word.
In a few days Wolfert left his room; in a few days more his table was covered with deeds, plans of streets and building lots.
Above thetable on the old-fashioned paper, of a white satin gloss, traversed by an indeterminate green scroll, hung quite high a small gilt and black-framed ivory miniature taken in her girlhood of the mother of the family.
When the lamp was set on the table beneath it, the tiny pretty face painted on the ivory seemed to gleam out with a look of intelligence.
He set it on the tableand waited a few minutes, pacing up and down.
Across the table from him was Miss Virginia St. Clair, radiant, a tinge of color in her cheeks.
She set it on a table, an old-fashioned card-table which was placed against the opposite wall from the window.
Why don't you set the lamp on the study table in the middle of the room, then we can both see?
So saying, he caught up his crucible in a chemist's tongs, and bore it slowly toward the table on which stood a brass vessel.
Washington White dropped the plate he was carrying to the table and ran to the door.
Then I must take an observation," ejaculated the professor, and seizing some instruments he had arranged on the table he went out to where the powerful telescope was adjusted.
The negro fell in a swoon, overturning the table and sending the professor's instruments crashing to the floor.
He was sitting at the breakfast-table in the large, sunny dining-room at Heathdale, while the open and empty mail-bag lay upon the table beside him.
The failing invalid, too, received much of his care and attention, while many delicacies, which he had never taken pains to procure for himself, found their way to his table to help sustain his waning strength.
But he finished at length, and then Chi Lu was summoned thetable cleared, and the room restored to its usual order.
At last, however, their climb was over, and following a rough path that led along the side of the mountain for some distance, they at length came out upon a broad ledge or table rock, which was indeed barren to desolation.
William," cried Lady Linton, springing excitedly to her feet, the document which had caused her so much joy but a moment before dropping unheeded on the table beside her.
She chatted socially for a while on various topics, but after a time laid down her work, and taking up a book from a table near which she was sitting, began carelessly turning over its pages.
While Claire was yet seated at the breakfast-table on the next morning, word was brought that a gentleman was in the parlour and wished to see him.
We know no better book for the table of any family, whether regarded for its neat exterior or valuable contents.
The work should be upon the centre-table of every parent in the land.
In one of these rooms tea was prepared, and near the tea-table sat a young woman, with a sleeping babe nestled to-her bosom.
Presently, with one shoe in his hand and the other half unlaced, he hopped over to the dressing-table and stood before it, looking at first one picture and then another.
Then there will be peppermint candy hearts with mottoes printed on them, and lace-paper napkins with verses on them, so that the table itself will look like a lovely big valentine.
Looking over the banisters, the boys saw that a table had been drawn into the middle of the wide reception-hall, and on it sat the largest pie that they had ever seen.
It is clean enough now for even grandmother to eat in," said Virginia, as she spread a cloth on the table Unc' Henry had carried out for them.
The library-table was strewn with books of old court life, and pictures of kings and queens whose costumes were to be copied in the tableaux.
Accordingly he took a kettle of wine from the table and presented it to the disciples, bidding them drink each his fill; whereupon our friend Wang began to wonder how seven or eight of them could all be served out of a single kettle.
She had barely got outside the door when he rushed in, and there he saw the lady sitting with the guitar on a table before her.
Chou noticed many birds of strange plumage, so tame that they were not afraid of him; and these from time to time would alight on the table and sing with voices like Pan-pipes.
When Wang got back he threw the money on the table and told the landlord to take what he liked; but the latter would not, and it was only after some pressing that he would accept payment for Wang's board.
Hosts of waiting-maids brought in profuse quantities of wine and meats, with bowls and cups of jade or gold, till the table glittered again.
In a few minutes he had disappeared, and before long presented himself suddenly at the banquet-table with the guitar in his hand, the entrance-gate having been securely barred all the time, and not a dog or a cock aroused.
So he secreted it in his sleeve, and, pretending to be tipsy,[59] leaned forward with his head upon the table as if going off to sleep.
The viands, however, were still upon the table and the mirror-like piece of paper on the wall.
They then took up the table and walked into the moon where they could be seen drinking so plainly, that their eyebrows and beards appeared like reflections in a looking-glass.
As soon as permission was granted the youngsters to leave the supper table they would make a dash for the kitchen where the Boy and Girl sat at the big pine table lingering over their dessert.
On the table lies a rudely drawn map of the frontier, some folded letters, an inkstand and an eagle's quill pen.
There were two beds in it, the trunk, a chest of drawers, four rush-bottomed chairs, and a tea table before the fireplace.
The Monroe table never lacked for game while James was around.
So I dismounted and made a rush for the cooking-stove, which, in company with an immense dining-table on which lay (enchanting sight!
Soon Table Mountain became visible, extended like an immense dining-board for the giants, its summit a perfectly straight line penciled for more than a league against the glowing sky.
It was very comfortable, with the trifling drawback that I had to rise earlier than I wished, in order that what had been a bed at night might become a table by day.
TABLE 3, shows the prevailing wind direction and the hourly maximum velocity.
TABLE 2, shows the total rainfall for each month in inches and hundredths of an inch.
TABLE 1, shows the mean temperature for each month and year.
In thistable will be found the dates of first and last frost and other phenomena of interest and value.
I announce at this table an axiom not to be found in Montesquieu or the journals of Congress:-- The race that shortens its weapons lengthens its boundaries.
Table and floor were littered with manuscripts and papers; under the former I observed an empty bottle.
Now an editorialtable seems to mean a board of green cloth at which literary broken-victuals are served out with no carving but that of the editorial scissors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "table" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
