" (The little listener under the table turned her head and shot a scornful glance at Aunt Ruth through the tablecloth.
I don't care if a floor is dirty as long as the tablecloth is clean.
The two girls carried the plates and dishes into the kitchen, Agnes making the last journey with the tablecloth, which Mynors had assisted her to fold.
Among Anna's earliest memories was a picture of her father arriving late for supper one Sunday night in autumn after an anniversary service, and pouring out on the white tablecloth the contents of numerous chamois-leather money-bags.
In a corner of the room, the tablecloth began to wriggle.
" Pooh got out of bed, and began to explain what a looking-glass was, but just as he was getting to the interesting part, Tigger said: "Excuse me a moment, but there's something climbing up your table," and with one loud Worraworraworraworraworra he jumped at the end of the tablecloth, pulled it to the ground, wrapped himself up in it three times, rolled to the other end of the room, and, after a terrible struggle, got his head into the daylight again, and said cheerfully: "Have I won?
And I don't know what you mean to do, sister Glegg, but I mean to give him a tablecloth of all my three biggest sizes but one, besides sheets.
Tom was only looking thoughtful, with his eyes on the tablecloth.
We've got nothing—we shall be beggars—we must go to the workhouse——" She kissed him, then seated herself again, and took another tablecloth on her lap, unfolding it a little way to look at the pattern, while the children stood by in mute wretchedness, their minds quite filled for the moment with the words "beggars" and "workhouse.
I'll just get a tablecloth and then—" The tablecloth was in a box with a proper lock that was opened with a key and not with a shovel, and when the cloth was spread on the table, a real feast was laid out on it.
Jay, aware that impropriety is the soul of wit, made observations in tones hardly above a whisper that might well have tinged the snowy tablecloth with a rosy hue.
Remember running up to a parent or guardian and asking them to look at a picture you'd colored or cape you'd made out of an expensive tablecloth?
When he grasped the glass often milk spilled on the tablecloth.
No sooner had I finished than the famous writer placed his glass firmly on the white tablecloth, leaned back and declared: "Glynnis MacNicol, you have a terrible life!
To understand what a feat this is, imagine a standard dining room table covered in a black tablecloth ,,, and someone throwing a handful of salt across it.
When he grasped his glass of milk, it often spilled clumsily at the tablecloth.
When he grasped the glass often milk spilled on the tablecloth.
Others set up dozens of tables in the yard, spread a tablecloth on each.
We dined the traditional way, sitting on cushions around the room, tablecloth spread on the floor, eating with our hands in groups of four or five from common platters.
When he grasped the glass often milk spilled on the tablecloth.
