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Sentences ending with tables

For a little while he was left alone and involuntarily witnessed what was taking place on the other two tables. [2]
The word "ice-cream" was no sooner whispered than it passed from one to another all down the tables. [6]
When we went to call on our American Consul General today I noticed that all possible games for parlor amusement seemed to be represented on his center tables. [5]
That parlor Cynthia thought a handsome room, with its high windows and lace curtains, its long mirrors and marble-topped tables. [9]
Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors and little tables. [2]
Raymond now turned the tables. [5]
It was plain that we could not pretend to answer all the invitations which flooded our tables. [6]
After prayer the supper commences, and the visitors walk between the tables. [5]
Young men in strange garb sat at the small tables. [10]
We have never seen any body playing the French three-ball game yet, and I doubt if there is any such game known in France, or that there lives any man mad enough to try to play it on one of these European tables. [5]

Sentences containing tables two or more times

An insurance actuary could take the Indian census tables and the government's snake tables and tell you within sixpence how much it would be worth to insure a man against death by snake-bite there. [5]
Across one end and down both sides of the room extended a row of tables, and at these tables some fifty or seventy-five students [1. [5]

More example sentences with the word tables in them

That glorified drug-store with the five bays included in its manifold functions a department rivalling Delmonico's, with electric fans and marble-topped tables and white-clad waiters who took one's order and filled it at the soda fountain. [9]
Something's needed that will play our game and turn the tables on the reptile too. [11]
The little tables were ranged along by the windows, and it chanced that Mr. Harry Riddle sat so close to us that we could touch him. [9]
Under the trees were hundreds of tables surrounded by hovering ministering angels in white, and if you were German, they brought you beer; if American, ice-cream. [9]
An incessant bustle went on, to and fro between these rooms and the great library, and the tables were covered with rolls and tablets containing ancient prophecies, horoscopes and potent exorcisms. [10]
Stuffs, garments, tapestries, weapons hung over the backs of the chairs, or lay on chests, tables and the stone-floor. [10]
In the same way, our tables are full of books half-read and books we feel that we must read. [6]
The incipient mutineer was more outraged than ever, then, at what he denounced as the partiality shown the captain's table over the other tables in the ship. [5]
The assembly hall was filled when we arrived, aglow with candles and a-tremble with music, the powder already flying, and the tables in the recesses at either end surrounded by those at the cards. [9]
Beyond the tables was a stage, with footlights already set and orchestra tuning up, and a curtain on which was represented a gentleman making decorous love to a lady beside a fountain. [9]
I very much wanted one of the sorry old tables which the prisoners had spent so many years in ornamenting with their pocket-knives, but red tape was in the way. [5]
He had sat up till morning, had rested scarcely three hours, and now, with knitted brows, was comparing the results of his night's observation of the starry sky with certain astronomical tables which lay spread out before him. [10]
Government clerks set up their baize-covered tables and their pigeonholes of documents in small rooms. [2]
The tables had turned since leaving the island, and the senator held it in his power to ruin our one remaining chance of escape. [9]
The Emperor's room, too, had an altered aspect, for, instead of a few letters and despatches, his writing-table was now covered not only with maps and plans, but lists and tables referring to the condition of his army. [10]
I might go to the statistical tables of the annuity and life insurance offices for extended and exact information, but I prefer to take the facts which have impressed themselves upon me in my own career. [6]
Through the entrance to the restaurant Honora caught sight of the red glow of candles upon the white tables, and heard the hum of voices. [9]
These blocks were to be set on end in a platter, in the center of dinner- tables, to cool the tropical air; and also to be ornamental, for the flowers and things imprisoned in them could be seen as through plate glass. [5]
What they failed to acknowledge was his point of view--and this he was wise enough not to press at dinner tables and in drawing-rooms--that religion should have the penetrability of ether; that it should be the absorbent of life. [9]
The luxury of this room, with its shining mahogany tables, its tapestried walls, its rare fireplace and massive overmantel brought from Italy, its exquisite stained-glass windows, was only part of a play they were acting; it was not their real life. [11]
He liked most things continental; he found his social pleasures in that polite Bohemia which indulges in midnight suppers and permits ladies to smoke cigarettes after dinner, which dines at rich men's tables and is hob-a- nob with Russian Counts, Persian Ministers, and German Barons. [11]
The cooks prepared their savory messes on large, clean tables, and the scene of their labors, which, though enclosed by cords was open to public gaze was surrounded by a small market, where however only the choicest of wares were displayed. [10]
She was turning the tables with a vengeance. [9]
Men crowded about the tables silent but keenly excited; cigars were chewed instead of smoked, and liquor was left undrunk. [11]
We noted at the tables in this region a singular use of the word fruit. [4]
On benches round the tables in a dirty little room sat some ten factory hands. [2]
The furnishing of the rooms differed little from that of the present day, except that the chairs and tables were somewhat more angular and the cushions less comfortable. [10]
I overheard from the neighbouring tables a spiteful protest that a young upstart from the colonies should turn Lady Tankerville's drum into a levee. [9]
At five in the morning, the bathers enter it, and remain until ten o'clock,--five hours, having breakfast served to them on the floating tables, "as they sail, as they sail. [4]
That boat was the foulest I was ever in; and the smell of the breakfast saloon when we threaded our way among the layers of steaming passengers stretched upon its floor and its tables was incomparable for efficiency. [5]
On the contrary, the first inspection of the tables suggested the prospect of days of unstinted luxury; and the younger portion of the household, especially, were in a state of great excitement as the account of stock was taken with reference to future internal investments. [6]
When he entered the decorated hall in which the tables were prepared, he found all the guests assembled. [10]
By this time the conversation had drawn the attention of the others at the tables, and one or two smiled at Austen's answer. [9]
In the drawing-room the buzzing about the card tables was hushed a moment as she went in. [9]
Breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, teas, receptions with spread tables, two, three, and four deep of an evening, with receiving company at our own rooms, took up the day, so that we had very little time for common sight-seeing. [6]
I went on talking to the Intendant, while some of the guests rose and scattered about the rooms, at tables, to play picquet, the jesting on our cause and the scorn of myself abating not at all. [11]
They are everywhere; tables, chairs, sofas, the floor--everything is occupied, and over-occupied. [5]
There were different tables, and I sat at the one with royalty. [6]
Upon the heavy tables were costly, illuminated volumes; luxurious chairs and ottomans invited to easy rest; and upon the ceiling Aurora led forth all the flower-strewing daughters of the dawn in brilliant frescoes. [4]
On all the tables stand glasses, some full, and some empty of wine. [11]
After passing the tables of the money-changers, and the stone seats on which the citizens sat in the open air and held their consultations, they arrived at the house of Theopompus. [10]
At a lower table the Court grandees and other guests of noble degree were seated, with the magnates of the city; the commoners took places at a multitude of tables on the main floor of the hall. [5]
The artistically worked Syrian drinking vessels on the sideboard, tables, and consoles were of many forms; beautiful vases full of flowers stood everywhere; rare perfumes rose from alabaster cups, and the foot sank in the thick pile of the carpets which covered the floor. [10]
I have had some tables made out, which I have every reason to believe are correct so far as they go. [6]
I vaguely remember some of the details of that gathering--dimly I can see a hundred people--no, perhaps fifty--shadowy figures sitting at tables feeding, ghosts now to me, and nameless forevermore. [5]
Long cartoons, containing sketches of figures, large paintings, just commenced or half-finished, leaned against the easels; mannikins, movable wooden horse's heads, and plaster-models stood on the floor, the tables, and in the windows. [10]
At the tables silent couples and restrained family parties, no hilarity, little talking; and what a contrast this was to the happy-go-lucky service and jollity of the White Sulphur! [4]
The elegantly carved seats were made of ivory, the tables of ebony, and they, as well as the couches, had gilt feet. [10]
A delicate-looking man, seated at one of the tables, was pointed out to me as Jouffroy. [6]
Our kin beyond sea have always been stout eaters of solid food, and in Elizabeth's time their tables were more plentifully laden than those of any other nation. [4]
Two hundred people sat at little tables on the sidewalk, sipping wine and coffee; the streets were thronged with light vehicles and with joyous pleasure-seekers; there was music in the air, life and action all about us, and a conflagration of gaslight everywhere! [5]
A rumble of Russian and French voices and laughter filled the air round the tables in the square. [2]
Here and there ribbons of smoke curled upward, adding volume to the blue cloud that hung over the tables, which in turn was dissipated in spots by the industrious electric fans. [9]
Dietel would far rather have served the Cologne theologians, whom he regarded as the appointed defenders of the true faith, than the insignificant folk at the other tables who had just finished their meal. [10]
The tables were radiant with silver, glistening with choice porcelain, blazing with a grand show of tulips. [6]
People who had previously engaged tables in the one sole eating-house were able to put in their time very satisfactorily; the other thousand went hungry. [5]
The tables now presented an animated spectacle. [6]
The camp was pitched and the rest of the day given up to writing voluminous accounts of the marvel, and correcting astronomical tables to fit it. [5]
Now the last pieces of bread and the cloths were removed from the tables. [10]
The staid family parties who are supping at adjoining tables notice this group with curiosity, and express their opinion by elevated eyebrows. [4]
There were three operating tables in the tent. [2]
He renews his onslaught upon me, forgetting to remember that I have turned the tables against himself on that very point. [7]
For these belong only upon the tables of the rich and great. [5]
Beside these, either on the tables or the floor, were the boxes from home. [10]
I came suddenly on a room in the greatest disorder, its tables and chairs piled high with newspapers and letters, its windows streaked with soot. [9]
In the course of time I collided with thirty-five chairs and tables enough to stock that dining-room out there. [5]
Such a number of medical periodicals no private library would have room for, no private person would pay for, or flood his tables with if they were sent him for nothing. [3]
I say, averages of masses we have, but our tables of maxima we owe to the sporting men more than to the philosophers. [6]
The room was, of course, on the order of a French provincial cafe, and as such delighted the bourgeoisie monopolizing the alcove tables and joking with the fat steward. [9]
The tables were of course in huge disorder, after the protracted assault they had undergone. [6]
She is suspected of being the anonymous author of a book which produced a sensation when published, not very long ago, and which those who read are very apt to read a second time, and to leave on their tables for frequent reference. [6]
See also the numerous and valuable tables, by Dr. Weisbach, from the observations of Dr. Scherzer and Dr. Schwarz, in the 'Reise der Novara: Anthropolog. [1]
Everything was ready now; students stood crowded together in the foreground, and others stood behind them on chairs and tables. [5]
Don't you think, now that the tables are turned, that you might have mercy on 'a prisoner and a captive'? [11]
Those who could not sit at tables sat on the ground, with a link of an eatable I have already named in one hand, and a mug of beer beside them. [4]
It was past noon, therefore they ordered their landlord, downstairs, to send up hot beefsteaks, chickens, and such things, and these they ate, sitting comfortable at the several tables, whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. [5]
We hold that no man can be well who does not agree with our views of the efficacy of calomel, and who does not take the doses of it prescribed in our tables, as there directed. [6]
We formed a natural group at one of the tables, where we met in more or less complete numbers. [6]
There was also much china standing on the tables, and still more was being brought in from the storeroom. [2]
It would be mortified to hear the talk of the excursionists, which is more about the quality of the tables and the beds, and the rapidity with which the "whole thing can be done," than about the beauty and the sublimity of nature. [4]
And as he made his way thither on this particular evening, a renewed sense came upon him of his emancipation from the dreary, useless hours he had been wont to spend at other dinner tables. [9]
There were great looking-glasses and marble-top tables. [5]
Some of the leading firms had desks or tables at the side, and there awaited orders. [4]
The tap-room was large, yet had a snug and cozy look, with its inviting little tables and chairs scattered irregularly over its red brick floor, and its great fire flaming and crackling in the wide chimney. [5]
The tables are laid with cheese in wooden bowls, beer in wooden piggins, poured from leathern jacks, and bread brought in large baskets. [5]
He seemed to know everybody in the room, for he was kept busy nodding right and left at the tables until he came to theirs. [9]
The two tables, King's and the Benson's, united in an expedition to the Old Sweet, a drive of eighteen miles. [4]
I am afraid it was not a profitable entertainment, for the men seemed to have business elsewhere, but the ladies about the tables made charming groups in the lighted grove. [4]
Time had turned it very dark, and the stately bedsteads and tall cabinets and claw-footed chairs and tables were in keeping with the sober dignity of the ancient mansion. [6]
Then I followed it to the sorting tables and saw the men deftly and swiftly spread it out and brush it about and seize the diamonds as they showed up. [5]
In the garden is a vine-covered arbor, with seats and tables, and at the end of it is the opening into a little chapel, a domestic chapel, carpeted like a parlor, and bearing all the emblems of a loving devotion. [4]
You've ruined your independent fortune at the tables. [11]
The peasants were in their best clothes; and in front of their wretched hovels were tables set out with flowers. [4]
And then music in the big house, or perhaps a ride afield to greet the neighbours, and fiddling and dancing in the two big quarters, Hank's and Johnson's, when the tables were cleared after the bountiful feast Mr. Carvel was wont to give them. [9]
All the tables in the Angulus were occupied, and whoever wanted to be understood by a distant neighbor was forced to raise his voice very loud, for special conversations were being carried on at every table. [10]
We found it illuminated with Chinese lanterns; and little tables set about under the trees, laden with cake and ice-cream, offered a chance to the stranger to contribute money for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church. [4]
The host, the hostess, and their pretty daughter were flying here and there and yonder among the tables and doing their best to keep up with the orders. [5]
I say racing horses are essentially gambling implements, as much as roulette tables. [6]
When she returned home, the tables in the dining-room were decorated, the great rooms were already lighted, and the red carpet was being laid down at the door. [11]
He choked back his wrath and moved on amiably enough, and suddenly the fashion in which the tables had been turned on him struck him with its tragic comedy, and he involuntarily smiled. [11]

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