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dinner-time

n. (alternative spelling of dinnertime English)

Usage examples of "dinner-time".

When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?

By dinner-time she could have told you how many shelves there were in every cupboard, and knew the Bijou by heart in a way that Christopher never knew it.

After this visit we came downstairs, and I was taken to the garden with permission to walk about until dinner-time.

The morning passed off quickly, but towards dinner-time I thought that Christine looked different to what she did the day before, and I asked her the reason of that change.

But the ones I mean came by the London mail last night, and your freend arrived about dinner-time.

He declined my offer with many thanks, and at dinner-time he told me that I had guessed rightly, for Count Alfani had left for Rome.

She gave him the amount immediately, and invited him to call again at dinner-time.

I met them again at dinner-time, during which the reception given to the young baron by the secretary was discussed, and in the evening my friends introduced him to several ladies who were much pleased with him.

It was dinner-time, and Pincher was going round getting the bits off the plates.

When it was dinner-time he took the prince into his dining-room, where the table was laid for three.

At dinner-time a delicate repast was brought to us, and we spent two delightful hours in the pleasures of a conversation and the table.

They proposed a game of quinze, which I accepted, and after losing fifty louis I left off, and we walked about the town till dinner-time.

When at last, at dinner-time, he reappeared in the drawing-room, Miss Hofmann greeted him almost as an old friend.

Mr and Mrs Leavening were expected to arrive that day at York House they had not yet done so, and were scarcely looked for until dinner-time.

Seville late tonight, see, and not in Marrakesh till tomorrow dinner-time.