Then followed my tiffin to the court princesses and their tiffin in return.
It was customary to give the cook a fixed sum per day to provide tiffin and dinner, and this was paid once a week.
I found that two dollars a day was sufficient to amply provide for my family, and I could have one guest to tiffin or dinner without notice, and be confident that the meal would be sufficient.
He promptly sets to work, and by twelve, or half-past, presents a tiffin of three or four courses.
Here we were met by a number of the officials of the province, who gave us a sumptuous tiffinin the rest-house.
On October 23 I was called to Fengtai to amputate the leg of a poor coolie, who had been run over by the express train from Tientsin; and after the operation partook of tiffin at the residence of A.
Whereupon he decided to order tiffin in the meantime, and told me to hurry back, take tiffin with him at the hotel, and we would then proceed to Machiapu, where a special train would be waiting for us.
Mr. Cox stated that he and his two guests had gone shortly after tiffin on a trolley to Captain Norregaard’s residence, near the bridge, and having added Norregaard to their party, proceeded on foot to the bridge.
During the meal the newly completed iron bridge was spoken of by Mr. Cox, and we were all invited to accompany him after tiffin on a trolley to inspect the bridge.
The major sprang up, scattering the remainder of their tiffin on the floor of the basket.
Suppose you never sat down to tiffin thirty-five hundred feet in the air?
You will go and lie down, perhaps, till tiffin time?
Before tiffin was over at the station Mess, Wyndham made his appearance, and with a friendly nod of welcome took the reins out of her hands.
Theo was just going down to the Lines, and he would be back to tiffin as a matter of course.
After tiffin the child appeared again and sought her new friend.
During the hours that elapsed before tiffin Daireen sat with a novel in her hand, and she knew that the stranger was on the ship's bridge with Major Crawford.
Tiffin was a great success, and there was no need for the Guru to visit the kitchen in order to make something that could be eaten without struggle.
She had acquiesced on the telephone in her Guru going to tiffin with Lucia, but about the middle of her lunch, she had been unable to resist the desire to know what was happening at The Hurst.
Traherne took Mrs. Crespin to her bungalow, and that when they had reached it he followed her in for tiffin or tea.
We’ll forgive you, so long as you ask us to tea every day and tiffin on Sundays, and dinner very often.
It was early morning yet, but all the regiment knew, and by tiffin all the station would know.
It may be as well to say that Mr. Tiffin appears to have paid much attention to the subject of Bugs, and has studied with much earnestness the natural history of this vermin.
At tiffin I counted thirty-three wretched people, who turned out to see the barbarian.
My meager tiffin at an insignificant mountain village was, as usual, an educational lesson to the natives.
Our tiffin baskets were six miles away in the dray, and sending after them was out of the question.
It was tiffin time, and they were anxious to set before us our lunch of rice curry, gula Malacca, whiskey and soda.
At tiffin that noon on the Negros I told the story to the others.
A year or so prior to her marriage she was sitting with her parents at tiffin when a Moro, with whom her father had had a trifling business disagreement, knocked at the door and asked for a moment's conversation.
Mary one day in the schoolyard came upon a little group who having finished their tiffin were seated in a ring listening with scared eyes and parted lips to the story (with variations and improvements) of Susie Brown's disappearance.
The children spoke in hushed voices, and at tiffin time instead of playing sat whispering in groups.
Tiffin over, and the blue-sealed calabash all but hid in the great cloud raised by our pipes, Media proposed to board it in the smoke.
And books of voyages:-- "A Sojourn among the Anthropophagi, by One whose Hand was eaten off at Tiffin among the Savages.
He made me stay quiet all morning, and just before tiffin he calmly informed me that he had made all the arrangements for us to be married at three o'clock.
When the Admiral heard I was from Kentucky, he invited us to take tiffin with him, and we exchanged darkey stories and the old gentleman nearly burst his buttons laughing.
In spite of protest, he serves them to us for breakfast, tiffinand dinner, and the household sits with injured countenance, and silently holds me responsible.
Just after tiffinthe rain stopped for a little while and I rushed out for a walk.
But tiffin under the lee of a rock was more interesting than colonial defence.
Then by companies after tiffin we walked chattering to the uplands of Hell.
Of course there was a sharp curve, and a bridge at the bottom, but luckily nothing met us, and we came to a wooden shanty called an hotel, in time for a crazytiffin served by very gorgeous handmaids with very pink cheeks.
My very respectable friends at all the clubs and messes, have you ever after a good tiffin lolled on cushions and smoked, with one pretty girl to fill your pipe and four to admire you in an unknown tongue?
Bring sahib coffee at six in the morning; breakfast at nine; tiffin at one.
After tiffin they all went on board, where their baggage had been sent before, the Italian band playing all the time on Captain O'Flaherty's steamer, which put them on board.
I didn't hear the word; but it is all right, and tiffin it is after this time.
We had tiffin at Suez, and it means luncheon," interposed Morris.
Coffee at six in the morning, breakfast à la fourchette at nine, tiffin at one, and dinner at seven.
Tiffin was ready; and a line of carriages was at the door waiting for the tourists when they had disposed of the lunch, and they seated themselves for a drive.
I ate one of the three pears I had brought for tiffin and smoked a cigarette.
Our way led close along the Tola River, and just before tiffin we saw a line of camels coming diagonally toward us from behind a distant hill.
After tiffin Coltman and Lucander rode rapidly ahead while I trotted my pony along more slowly in the rear.
As soon as tiffin had been eaten my wife worked at her photography, while I busied myself over the almost innumerable details of the preparation and cataloguing of our specimens.
Charles and I had been talking a good deal about antelope steak, and for tiffin I had cut the fillets from one of the young gazelle.
But Miss Forrester chatted steadily, appeared to understand murmurs which he himself found obscure, and so restored his confidence that before tiffin was over he talked no less gayly, his honest face alight and glowing.
He could not bring himself, next day, to join their party for tiffin at the Flowery Pagoda.
The middle of the day, table d'hote tiffin once over, was Schomberg's easy time.
It was in the grounds of the hotel, about tiffin time, while the Ladies of the orchestra were strolling back to their pavilion after rehearsal, or practice, or whatever they called their morning musical exercises in the hall.
Presumably they would remain together until tiffin, and if before tiffin the note was not delivered, another afternoon, the evening too, perhaps, would be wasted and lost.
A halt is made for tiffinin this delightful little hotel, whose pleasant looking proprietress, unfortunately, does not speak English.
Next day, in spite of the delay caused by the wash-out on the line, we were able to reach Djocjakarta by tiffin time, and devoted the afternoon to the Hindu ruins at Parambanan.
Tiffin should be ordered through the guard before starting from Willem I.
We started off after tiffin on the long trail that wound down the gorge of El Chico de Cagayan River, on our way to Bontoc.
This time our tiffin was farther on, at a rest-house with a splendid view, and it had been laid out so prettily with temporary flower beds and bamboo arches.
Tiffin and breakfasts had been prepared all along the way.
On our way back we stopped for tiffin at this same village and had the women come and show us how they weave, for it was a place famed for its weaving.
Just aftertiffin the island was sighted, lying quite alone by itself in milky green water.
He could hardly wait for tiffin yesterday, he was in such a hurry to catch the first launch up river.
But these are slaughter-house clothes in which to go to tiffinwith ladies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiffin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
