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Sentences starting with dinner

Dinner is serious work, for he sweats at it as much as at his labor, and he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef. [4]
Dinner at Weathersfield we youngsters had usually found rather an oppressive ceremony, with its shaded lights and precise ritual over which Mr. Kyme presided like a high priest; conversation had been restrained. [9]
Dinner at five, to bed at eight, up before daylight, and off to Dublin when the light breaks. [11]
Dinner was got through I know not how. [9]
Dinner at the Star and Garter being at the fashionable hour of half after four, I was forced to give over for that day the task of finding Mr. Dix. [9]
Dinner was brought him. [2]
Dinner had been forgotten that day, but would I enter and partake? [9]
Dinner 'half a can of mincemeat divided up and served around, which strengthened us somewhat. [5]
Dinner was ready--had been ready for some time. [11]
Dinner was ordered, and the party strolled about the village pending its preparation; but it was not ready when they returned. [4]

Sentences ending with dinner

I'll certainly..." "But you'll be late for dinner. [2]
Already he had won everything the other possessed, and was now playing for his dinner. [11]
I had cantered with her that morning from Wilmot House to Mr. Lloyd's, and thence to Carvel Hall, where she was to stay to dinner. [9]
Then Fulkerson said, with another look at his watch, "Well, March, we're keeping Mr. Lindau from his dinner. [8]
When do you wish to have them for dinner? [9]
I hope Jasmine will give you a good dinner. [11]
And that morning, when Hugh had gone out, she sent for Starling and startled him by commanding that the famous Lowestoft set be used at dinner. [9]
I don't mind what they call me, so long as they don't call me too late for dinner. [11]
You have been wet all day long, and have missed your dinner. [9]
At three o'clock we stopped at the Widow Sherrill's for dinner. [4]

Short sentences using dinner

Is that dinner, Waters? [9]
They ask him to dinner. [2]
No dinner, and three-thirty P.M.! [9]
Lawson must give the dinner. [5]
I forgot about the dinner. [11]
The dinner was simple. [4]
After dinner still no message. [6]
This made a lively dinner. [4]
Dear me, dinner is ready. [5]
I've got an early dinner. [4]

Sentences containing dinner two or more times

When the bill was passed, Hollowell did give a dinner on his own invitation, a dinner that was talked of for its refinement as well as its cost. [4]
But it never was our author's habit to stroke the world the wrong way: "When I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. [4]
Everyone rose, feeling that dinner was more important than verses, and Bagration, again preceding all the rest, went in to dinner. [2]
It was ordered that a warm dinner should cost twelve shillings, a cold dinner nine shillings, and a good breakfast twelve shillings. [4]
Nicholas understood that something must have happened between Sonya and Dolokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. [2]
He did not return to lunch or dinner--if he had done so he would have found that lunch was dinner and that dinner was supper--another vital distinction between the hotel and the cottage. [4]
While there is nothing in social intercourse so agreeable and inspiring as a dinner of the right sort, society has invented no infliction equal to a large dinner that does not "go," as the phrase is. [4]
He wants to have a preliminary little dinner, where we can talk the thing up first-half a dozen of us; and he wants to give us the dinner at his house. [8]
There was an extra dinner when they reached home, and a cheerful consciousness of duty performed made it a pleasant dinner. [4]
Then she had dinner, a substantial and appetizing meal at which there were always three or four guests; after dinner she played a game of boston, and at night she had the newspapers or a new book read to her while she knitted. [2]

More example sentences with the word dinner in them

If--if you're poor, you ought to have told me so, and I shouldn't have ordered another dinner gown. [9]
And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck. [5]
But, Mr. Mallow, you haven't said you've had no dinner, and you'll not be going to bed in this house without your food. [11]
I say that you can't work the sacred rites of hospitality in a better cause, and what I propose is a little dinner for the purpose of recognizing the hit we've made with this thing. [8]
I can't offer you a dinner, seh. [9]
Arrived at New York, they went to a hotel off Broadway for dinner, and Carnac signed names in the hotel register as "Mr. and Mrs. Carnac Grier. [11]
That man was wounded by a trick of fate, by a cussed bit of shell from your coehorns while eating his dinner in Vicksburg. [9]
A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent. [8]
He said he would not be in town; so I risked it and took my dinner instead of the stock. [5]
And not a word would she speak to Chartersea the whole of the dinner, nor look to the right or left of her plate. [9]
He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
A pleasant dinner with the Dean, a stroll through the grounds of the episcopal palace, with that perpetual feast of the eyes which the cathedral offered us, made our residence delightful at the time, and keeps it so in remembrance. [6]
Mr. Burlingame went with me all the time, and helped me question the men--throwing away invitations to dinner with the princes and foreign dignitaries, and neglecting all sorts of things to accommodate me. [5]
When Kendricks came with Beaton to call after her father's dinner, she used all her cunning to ensnare him, and she had him to herself as long as Beaton stayed; Dryfoos sent down word that he was not very well and had gone to bed. [8]
Mark Twain, threatened with a cold, and knowing the dinner would be strenuous, did not feel able to attend, so wrote a letter which, if found suitable, could be read at the gathering. [5]
I hope you will continue this custom to give me a dinner every seven years before I join the hosts in the other world--I do not know which world. [5]
Oh those high, wild, desolate moors, up above the whole world, and the very realms of silence I Home to dinner at two. [14]
Two young fellows, whom I had last seen at the Henderson dinner, were seated at a small table. [4]
After dinner the whole Rostov household set to work with enthusiastic haste packing their belongings and preparing for their departure. [2]
And Mrs. Pomfret, who, remarkable as it may seem, not only recognized Austen without her lorgnette, but quite overwhelmed him with an unexpected cordiality, and declared her intention of giving them a dinner in New York. [9]
It was Mathilde who ordered her dinner and pressed her to eat. [9]
You have Judge Whipple every Sunday dinner, and he's an Abolitionist. [9]
In a land where all were bon- vivants, where the lowest tradesmen drank wine after dinner, and rum, brandy and water, or sangaree in the forenoon, a somewhat lightsome view of table-virtues might have been expected of the young unmarried planter. [11]
But after dinner, when she had seen them to bed, as was her custom, she came downstairs into my study and said quietly:--"I was wrong, Hugh. [9]
And after dinner, when he started talking with a ridicule that was a thinly disguised bitterness about the Citizens Union and their preparations for a campaign I left him and went to bed. [9]
The old people were troubled about Gwendolen at dinner, because she was so distraught and silent. [5]
You knew we were to meet at dinner at Wallstein's to-night. [11]
The "relating circumstances" were these: At the abovementioned dinner there had been a roll-call of the distinguished guests present, and each name had been duly applauded. [5]
The Sellers family were just starting to dinner when Washington burst upon them with his surprise. [5]
The members who were assembling for dinner were sitting about in groups; they greeted Pierre and spoke of the town news. [2]
After dinner they went together to their candidate's room. [9]
After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. [2]
After dinner Natasha went to her room and again took up Princess Mary's letter. [2]
After dinner they went to drink coffee in Napoleon's study, which four days previously had been that of the Emperor Alexander. [2]
However, the Judge went periodically to his friend's for a quiet Sunday dinner (so called in derision by St. Louisans), on which occasions Virginia sat at the end of the table and endeavored to pour water on the flames when they flared up too fiercely. [9]
After dinner they went into the little orchard behind the house and sat drinking (in the French fashion) the commandant's precious coffee which had been sent to him from far-away New Orleans. [9]
After dinner I went below and took a seat in the stone-paved court, where the customary lemon-trees stand in the customary tubs, and said to myself, "Now this is comfort, comfort and repose, and nobody to disturb it; I do not know anybody in Milan. [5]
At any rate we'll invite him to dinner to-morrow, he may have something to tell us. [10]
We were pretty well fagged out, now, but as we did not wish to miss the Alpine sunrise, we got through our dinner as quickly as possible and hurried off to bed. [5]
Though still somewhat weak from my wound and confinement, after dinner that Sunday I repaired to Gloucester Street. [9]
In the evening we went to a large dinner at the invitation of the Vice-Chancellor. [6]
At every hotel we stop at we always have to send out for soap, at the last moment, when we are grooming ourselves for dinner, and they put it in the bill along with the candles and other nonsense. [5]
And that afternoon we had a two-shilling bottle of port for dinner, which we shared with a broken-down parson who had been chaplain in ordinary to my Lord Wortley, and who had preached us an Easter sermon the day before. [9]
At dinner Stephen was tried still further. [9]
The unsuspecting Tom was too good-natured to be offended, and shortly after dinner Austen found himself in the process of being looked over by a stout gentleman named Putter, proprietor of Putter's Livery, who claimed to be a judge of men as well as horses. [9]
The second effect was to show her--and this was what this little dinner emphasized--that she had put limitations upon herself and taken on unthought-of responsibilities. [4]
One day I was there at dinner, and remarked, in a general way, that we are all liars. [5]
After the dinner was the ball, and that ended, they took their places at the windows of a roam that looked out upon a square, where a platform was raised and a vast crowd was assembled to see the king's bears fight with greyhounds. [4]
Last spring she was sewing here with a song on her lips, watching for him to turn the corner as he came back to dinner. [9]
He said he was not more particular than other people, but he had noticed that a clergyman at dinner without any breeches was almost sure to excite remark. [5]
The dinner itself was more like a ceremony than a meal, and as it proceeded, Honora found it increasingly difficult to rid herself of a curious feeling of being on probation. [9]
His dinner hour was late, and he rarely worked at night. [6]
The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. [2]
At dinner he was fitful in conversation, yet inclined to be critical of the talk around him. [11]
And presently it was dinner time and "Karl" arrived--a slender young fellow with a marvelous head and a noble eye--and he was as simple and natural, and as beautiful in spirit as his wife was. [5]
The original speech was delivered at a dinner given by the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly in honor of the seventieth anniversary o f the birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, December 17, 1877. [5]
The great structure was a-tremble from the assault, its footpaths and its roadway overrun with workers, dodging between trolleys and trucks,--some darting nimbly, dinner pails in hand, along the steel girders. [9]
If Mrs. Scherer was a surprise to us, her husband was a still greater one; and I had difficulty in recognizing the Adolf Scherer who came to our dinner party as the personage of the business world before whom lesser men were wont to cringe. [9]
They are always wanted to dinner. [4]
They were all waiting for Bennigsen, who on the pretext of inspecting the position was finishing his savory dinner. [2]
The whole congregation waited, under one pretext or another, till she finished her dinner and went out; they wanted to see her at full altitude, and they found it worth tarrying for. [5]
I would not wait for dinner, but pausing only for a sip of cool Madeira and some other refreshment, I made my farewells to the ladies. [9]
How often Baron von Humboldt, Rauch, or Schleiermacher had escorted her to dinner! [10]
After Shelley's (conjectured) visit to Harriet at Bath--8th of June to 18th--"it seems to have been arranged that Shelley should henceforth join the Skinner Street household each day at dinner. [5]
And he had visions of a quiet dinner with Richter under the trees at the beer-garden, where he could talk about Abraham Lincoln. [9]
Margaret remembered her very distinctly, although she had only exchanged a word with her at the memorable dinner in New York when Henderson had revealed her feelings to herself. [4]
The house was very clean, and the tidy landlady gave us as good a dinner as she could of the inevitable green tea, toast, and salt fish. [4]
It was a very brilliant dinner, but Philip could not have given much account of it. [4]
The Honourable Hilary Vane, whose face they study at dinner time, is not worried. [9]
Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, returned home just before dinner. [2]
He always accompanies us when we go to gather the vegetables, seeming to be desirous to know what we are to have for dinner. [4]
Manners came in upon me, and insisted that I should stay for dinner. [9]
Dryfoos necessarily depended upon him for advice concerning the scope and nature of the dinner, but he received the advice suspiciously, and contested points of obvious propriety with pertinacious stupidity. [8]
The sergeant ran up to the officer and in a frightened whisper informed him (as a butler at dinner informs his master that there is no more of some wine asked for) that there were no more charges. [2]
Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she'd skin us. [5]
The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. [2]
The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the Club's head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and fish for this dinner. [2]
It was not until they were seated at dinner in the hotel, Ephraim with his napkin tucked under his chin, that Jethro gave them the key to the characters in this story. [9]
We had dinner under the green trees in a garden belonging to the hotel and overlooking the Neckar; then, after a smoke, we went to bed. [5]
Her mortal body, unattended, went out to dinner that evening. [9]
We took a turn around the town, after dinner, and found it fully as interesting in the moonlight as it had been in the daytime. [5]
She was a true Athenian, she had discovered some new thing, she valued discoveries more than all else in life, she collected them, though she never used them save to discuss them with intellectuals at her dinner parties. [9]
Another day we took our dinner at a very celebrated restaurant on the boulevard. [6]
Richter and Stephen took counsel together, and sent Shadrach out for his dinner. [9]
Sir Mortimer Durand, too, has had trouble from going to a dinner here, and he has told you what he suffered in consequence. [5]
They had agreed to walk back the ten miles to Coniston, to save the money that dinner at the hotel would cost. [9]
Then he went to the Khedivial Club and ordered himself four courses, a pint of champagne and a glass of '48 port, his usual dinner being one course, double portion, and a pint of claret. [11]
It was easy to talk about these things; in fact, Jack talked a great deal about them in the clubs, and occasionally with a knot of men after dinner in a knowing, pessimistic sort of way. [4]
A servant came to summon her to dinner. [5]
That's the way to stop off a young one from eatin' up all the 'lection dinner. [6]
Not a person to read Browning with, but to call on if one needed a nurse, or a good dinner, or a charitable deed. [4]
Clement walked over to Mrs. Hopkins's after his dinner with the young lawyer, and asked if Susan was ready to go with him. [6]
If I were to miss a dinner at my own house, it would be too terrible! [9]
The chief turned to me and said, "I am expecting company to dinner, and shall have to get ready. [5]
Fulkerson came back to March, who had turned toward Conrad Dryfoos, and said, "If we don't get this thing going pretty soon, it 'll be the death of me," and just then Frescobaldi's butler came in and announced to Dryfoos that dinner was served. [8]
I asked him to make the offer good for next day, as I was just going to dinner. [5]
Now we had to make ready in all haste for dinner, and never had Ann made such careful and diligent use of our little mirror. [10]
Pierre, in order to make Boris' better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles into Boris' eyes. [2]
He was forbid to light the candles after dinner. [9]
While Stephen related to his mother the events of the morning, Hester burned the dinner. [9]

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