Dinners

Examples

• That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• These people and their like gave the pompous Russell Square merchant pompous dinners back again. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There had been no handkerchiefs to work upon, for two or three days, and the dinners had been rather meagre. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• This and similar talk took place at the grand dinners all round. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in--and I hope _my_ dinners are good enough for her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• At all the Sunday dinners of the people, there seemed a strange presence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We had one of those celebrated dinners that only Mr. Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He pays their dinners at Greenwich, and they invite the company. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Suppers are not bad if we have not dined; but restless nights naturally follow hearty suppers after full dinners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There aren't ten cooks in England to be trusted at impromptu dinners. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What good dinners you have--game every day, Malmsey-Madeira, and no end of fish from London. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But the upshot is, she gets up glorious dinners, makes superb coffee; and you must judge her as warriors and statesmen are judged, _by her success_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Her Bath habits made evening-parties perfectly natural to her, and Maple Grove had given her a taste for dinners. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The Veneering dinners are excellent dinners--or new people wouldn't come--and all goes well. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then you would not approve of Syracusan dinners, and the refinements of Sicilian cookery? Plato. The Republic.
• If you can produce coal to cook five thousand dinners a day, you are five thousand times more important than if you cooked only your own dinner. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• As dinner-giving, and as criticising other people's dinners, she took satisfaction in it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The little dinners, the laughing and chatting, the music afterwards, delighted all who participated in these enjoyments. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Sorrows is more plentiful than dinners just now; I reckon, my dinner hour stretches all o'er the day; yo're pretty sure of finding me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Oh, I never said I disliked his carriages, or his jewels, or his nice dinners,' answered Sophia. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Without doubt he would leave Middlemarch, go to town, and make himself fit for celebrity by eating his dinners. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Never was better claret at any man's table than at honest Rawdon's; dinners more gay and neatly served. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Lady Tippins lives in a chronic state of invitation to dine with the Veneerings, and in a chronic state of inflammation arising from the dinners. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Some dinners he had to attend, but a man who ate little and heard less could derive practically no pleasure from them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I can assure you, the hot dinners the matron turns out are by no means to be despised. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But at all the dismal dinners, leaden lunches, basilisk balls, and other melancholy pageants, her mere appearance is a relief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I seldom went to dinners. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Yorke, the permanent president of these dinners, witnessed his young friend's bearing with exceeding complacency. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We see Jack Thriftless prancing in the park, or darting in his brougham down Pall Mall: we eat his dinners served on his miraculous plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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