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Usage examples of dinners.

And then, no sooner had we started our dinners than Charles burst out crying at the table, and had to run from the kitchen wiping snot from his chin.

It was a kind of creeping misery, that crept so slow, and was so much a part of the habits of the house—like the colour of the walls, the smell of the dinners, the sound of weeping and shrieks—I did not know it had gained upon me, until too late.

Was it indifference, really, or was it supreme craftiness, the stupidity of her dinners, the general unattractiveness of the women she gathered around her, the ill-assortment of people who had little in themselves and nothing whatever in common?

Her dinners were as casual as her house, as to service, but they were worth eating.

Late hours, golf, perhaps a little more champagne than was necessary at dinners, and the mornings found her almost plain.

Once or twice he had seen real tragedy come to men as a result of the recklessness of long dinners, many toasts and the instinct to go on and make a night of it.

The new house in the day-time, bridge, the theater in the evening or the opera, dinners, dances, clothes - they seemed to be enough for her.

For a good many years he had blithely accepted the invitations of his friends - dinners, balls, week-end and yachting parties, paying his way with an occasional box of flowers.

Clayton was fighting in himself the sense of irritation Natalie's dinners always left, especially the recent ones.

In the midst of the agitation on conservation, her dinners ran their customary seven courses.

Matsugae said primly, "but, yes, I will be attending one of the dinners tonight.

Now all we have to do is replicate your outfit a few dozen times over, and we'll be able to attend all the boring dinners we have to to save our own buns and K'Vaern's Cove both!

The humans hadn't worked out the protocol for introductions at these dinners, although Eleanora had been sweating blood trying to figure it out.

We use the kitchen for breakfast every day and for lots of dinners when we are not entertaining.

Her many White House perks didn't hurt either: Free government jets, White House events like state dinners and the Millennium celebration to charm donors, overnights for contributors in the Lincoln Bedroom and at Camp David, and the White House staff to do her research, all helped to give Hillary Clinton the edge that elected her to the Senate.