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Sentences starting with tea

Tea we thought would revive him: he refused it. [4]
Tea and formal visits are enough for Lady Belward, and almost too much for me. [11]
Tea was brought in. [9]
Tea was already in progress on the porch, and if a hush in the conversation and the scraping of chairs is any sign of a sensation, this happened when our heroine appeared in the doorway. [9]
Tea is an excuse for this. [4]

Sentences ending with tea

Let me give you a cup of tea. [4]
Carmen had not yet come, and they were waiting for a cup of tea. [4]
They oddly return with every change of weather; and are still sometimes accompanied with a little soreness and hoarseness, but I combat them steadily with pitch plasters and bran tea. [14]
To Mr. Brinsmade's, when the day's duty was done, the young Union officers used to ride, and often there would be half a dozen of them to tea. [9]
Our first thought was to build a fire, which would drive back the thick darkness into the woods, and boil some water for our tea. [4]
And that it was not an unprovided or destitute caravan was clear from this lady's occupation, which was the very pleasant and refreshing one of taking tea. [12]
They all met together at the usual hour for tea. [6]
Are they likely to be pacified now that we have taken off all except the tea? [9]
Then he opened them and whispered softly: "And the tea? [2]
Her conversation with the editor of the Record proved so entertaining that she forgot all about the clipping until she had reached Fairview, and had satisfied a somewhat imperious appetite by a combination of lunch and afternoon tea. [9]

Short sentences using tea

She rang for tea. [9]
Eliphalet stayed to tea. [9]
Won't you have some tea? [2]
Will you have some tea? [2]
Have kept 'em in tea. [11]
Tea! [2]

Sentences containing tea two or more times

After service we took tea with Dean Bradley, and after tea we visited the Jerusalem Chamber. [6]

More example sentences with the word tea in them

I believe in you now, or I should not be drinking tea with you. [4]
Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
But perhaps the worst of all was, that there wasn't any sugar, coffee, tea, or tobacco. [5]
Then he added, with some grim humour, that if Druce had no objection to spending an hour with Roadmaster over a fire and a billy of tea, he would be glad of his company; for bushranging, according to his system, was but dull work. [11]
Here was tea, with milk or with lemon-baths of it and claret-cup for the hardier spirits throughout the evening. [8]
In the hut which the men had passed, the chief officers had gathered and were in animated talk over their tea about the events of the day and the maneuvers suggested for tomorrow. [2]
The saloon below, where we had our tea, was lighted indeed, but sealed so tight as to be insupportable; and the cabin above, stifling too, was dark as a pocket. [9]
Fire and tea were far enough from his thought. [4]
While the horses were being harnessed Alpatych and Ferapontov over their tea talked of the price of corn, the crops, and the good weather for harvesting. [2]
After tea we went to look up Dr. Wilson, chief medical officer of the hospitals in the place, who was staying at the Brady House. [6]
In the afternoon we went to a tea at a very grand house, where, as my companion says in her diary, "it took full six men in red satin knee-breeches to let us in. [6]
Mr Swiveller, who was perfectly ravenous, and had had, all night, amazingly distinct and consistent dreams of mutton chops, double stout, and similar delicacies, felt even the weak tea and dry toast such irresistible temptations, that he consented to eat and drink on one condition. [12]
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]
The rest of us had been soberly sipping our tea, and when the Doctor and the Annexes stopped talking there was one of those dead silences which are sometimes so hard to break in upon, and so awkward while they last. [6]
Presently he advanced upon her with a cup of tea in one hand and a wedge of pie in the other,--such a wedge! [6]
It was not until the shadow of the forest had crept far across the lake and the darkening waters were still that we rose reluctantly to put the dishes in the tea basket and start on our homeward journey. [9]
She could not understand why he was so particularly animated and happy when, after getting up at daybreak and spending the whole morning in the fields or on the threshing floor, he returned from the sowing or mowing or reaping to have tea with her. [2]
It consisted of two kinds of wine; tea, bread, cheese, and cold meats, and was served on the centre-tables in the reception room and the verandahs--anywhere that was convenient; there was no ceremony. [5]
Notwithstanding the supposed traditionary advantage of our birthplace, we were unable to dispatch this meal with the celerity of our fellow-voyagers, and consequently, while we lingered over our tea, we found ourselves at the second table. [4]
Mr. Williams also took them (as Miss Bronte has mentioned) to drink tea at his house. [14]
The company came together a little before the early hour at which it was customary to take tea in Rockland. [6]
He knew how to weaken his divinity, on occasion, as well as an old housewife to weaken her tea, lest it should keep people awake. [6]
I am beginning to think this room where we take our tea is more like a tinder-box than a quiet and safe place for "a party in a parlor. [6]
Wetmore came up to their corner, with a scroll of bread and butter in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. [8]
Then she stepped to the mantel and took down one of Mr. Wedgwood's cups and dishes, and wiping them with her apron, filled the cup with fragrant tea, which she tendered me with her eyes sparkling. [9]
He carried me to the house of a worthy and benevolent clergyman of the German Reformed Church, where I was to take tea and pass the night. [6]
Then he clucked to the half-breed woman, and she made ready as sumptuous a tea as ever entered the room of a convalescent. [11]
He was about to pour out the tea, but Byng waved him away. [11]
We went thence to Mr. Hildreth's shop; he was suspected of having got tea out of a South River snow; then to Mr. Jackson's; and so on. [9]
Well, they've begun to introduce the tea culture, here. [5]
It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler. [5]
There was just time for a cup of tea at Mrs. Trafton's. [4]
She usually bought three cents' worth of tea at a time. [4]
In reference to this, Boldrick said: "Temperance drinks for the muleteers, tobacco and tea and sugar and postage stamps and things. [11]
You know, in these days, when a country begins to introduce the tea culture, it means that its own specialty has gone back on it. [5]
In the morning there was a drive with the ponies through town, in the afternoon in the carriage by the sea, with a couple of receptions, the five o'clock tea, with its chatter, and in the evening a dinner party for Margaret. [4]
He invariably declined them, and said he would take one of the others from the tea-box --my very best, kept in tea for sake of dryness. [11]
Going out into the yard she paused to consider where she should go next--to drink tea in the servants' wing with Vasilich, or into the storeroom to put away what still lay about. [2]
Some patriots throw the tea overboard; some other patriots destroy a Bastille. [5]
Two witnesses for the mock marriage--Khvostikov, a retired petty official whom Dolokhov made use of in his gambling transactions, and Makarin, a retired hussar, a kindly, weak fellow who had an unbounded affection for Kuragin--were sitting at tea in Dolokhov's front room. [2]
In the afternoon the ladies took tea at Mr. Oscar Browning's. [6]
Everything was similar: the ladies' subtle talk, the cards, the general raising his voice at the card table, and the samovar and the tea cakes; only one thing was lacking that he had always seen at the evening parties he wished to imitate. [2]
Master Gridley treated the Doctor to a cup of such tea as bachelors sometimes keep hid away in mysterious caddies. [6]
He put down the cup of tea he had been tasting, and said, in his solemn staccato: "I must go. [8]
She looked at the clock, then went to the fire to light it, for it was almost time to get her grandfather's tea. [11]
Conybear informed me that they were "magnates,"... We were sitting in the drawing-room at tea, when they entered with Mr. Watling, and no sooner had he spoken to Mrs. Kyme than his quick eye singled me out of the group. [9]
And frequently, when that gentleman was detained in town by business, he would stop at the little home for tea. [9]
I hunted up that cup of tea as diligently as ever a Boston matron sought for the last leaves in her old caddy after the tea-chests had been flung overboard at Griffin's wharf,--but no matter about that, now. [6]
I've just been telling her that there wasn't a woman at my tea who compared with her, and the men were crazy about her. [9]
You'll have some tea, won't you? [9]
He stirred his tea, while inwardly he tried to believe that he had really discouraged the Leightons from coming to New York. [8]
They were drinking tea, and only awaited Prince Bagration to begin the council. [2]
The Grand Duke's tea was delicious. [5]
As we had tea she told me she was going on a fortnight's leave to England; and no Tommy in the trenches could have been more excited over the prospect. [9]
The New York tea merchants who need picturesque signs are not likely to run out of Chinamen. [5]
And when after tea he dressed in the character, his appearance was so striking that his mother could not refrain from some little admiration. [9]
All of a sudden he heaves all the tea in Boston Harbor overboard, and whacks out a declaration of independence, and dares them to come on. [5]
But Number Five stirred her tea devotedly; there was a lump of sugar, I suppose, that acted like a piece of marble. [6]
Afternoon tea was still rather a new custom with us, more of a ceremony than a meal; and as Nancy handed me my cup and the thinnest of slices of bread and butter I found the intimacy of the situation a little disquieting. [9]
Such was the state of things when he received an invitation to take tea sociably, with a few friends, at Hyacinth Cottage, the residence of the Widow Rowens, relict of the late Beeri Rowens, Esquire, better known as Major Rowens. [6]
Remember also that soundest teacup does not always hold the best tea, or the cracked teacup the worst. [6]
After tea, Nicholas, Sonya, and Natasha went to the sitting room, to their favorite corner where their most intimate talks always began. [2]
He even did so on the day he had made the biggest score, in the biggest game ever played between his college and the pick of the country; but he first gorged himself with cake and tea. [11]
Mrs. Brice was so natural, that first evening at tea, that all were disappointed. [9]
Only Malasha, Andrew's six-year-old granddaughter whom his Serene Highness had petted and to whom he had given a lump of sugar while drinking his tea, remained on the top of the brick oven in the larger room. [2]
They used to sit over there in the corner, and have tea on the ebony table. [9]
His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, handkerchief, and pipe. [2]
This short episode shows us the family conditions surrounding Byles Gridley, who, as we were saying, had just been called down to tea by Miss Susan Posey. [6]
I was afraid she was going to sob, but she took it out in vigorous stirring of her tea. [6]
There had been several little neighborhood entertainments, dinners at the Morgans' and at Mrs. Fletcher's, and an evening cup of tea at Miss Forsythe's. [4]
But on the seventh day he ate with pleasure a piece of bread with some tea, and the doctor noticed that his temperature was lower. [2]
A place was set for him at Sunday dinner; and, if he did not appear, at Sunday tea. [9]
This active old servant was unpacking the traveler's canteen and preparing tea. [2]
Next we shall see tea, then chocolate, then coffee--hotel coffee. [5]
At length--and to say the truth before very long--Mr Swiveller had despatched as much toast and tea as in that stage of his recovery it was discreet to let him have. [12]
The old people sat with the old, the young with the young, and the hostess at the tea table, on which stood exactly the same kind of cakes in a silver cake basket as the Panins had at their party. [2]
It cannot be said that he was intimate with that rather formidable personage, although the Judge, being a man of habits, had formed that of taking tea at least once a week with Mrs. Brice. [9]
Hides from frozen Russia were piled high beside barrels of sugar and rum from the moist island cane-fields of the Indies, and pipes of wine from the sunny hillsides of France, and big boxes of tea bearing the hall-mark of the mysterious East. [9]
Nicholas and Denisov rose, asked for their pipes, smoked, went to fetch more tea from Sonya--who sat weary but resolute at the samovar--and questioned Pierre. [2]
Rosalie entered the room with a cup of tea, and came towards the bed. [11]
After tea, she returned from the study to her own sitting-room, as was her custom, leaving her father and his curate together. [14]
We passed the remaining hours of daylight--some basking in the sunshine, some sketching, some collecting; Hudson made tea, I coffee, and at length we retired, each one to his blanket bag. [5]
When everything was ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom he passed it. [2]
While I was questioning them, Clark rifled the wigwam; and presently, the excitable fellow, finding some excellent stores of skins, tea, maple sugar, coffee, and other things, broke out into English expletives. [11]
I really cannot put up with such a person as Comyn had here to tea last night. [9]
I kneeled, and put in the tin of water left behind by some other pilgrim, a handful of tea from the same source--the outcast and suffering giving to their kind. [11]
And Trixy Brent promised me faithfully he'd' come here for tea, as soon as he dressed. [9]
It was not precisely the kind of weather in which people usually take tea in summer-houses, far less in summer-houses in an advanced state of decay, and overlooking the slimy banks of a great river at low water. [12]
We had the pleasure of taking tea in the great house, accompanying our American friend, Lady Harcourt, and were graciously received and entertained by Lady Edward Cavendish. [6]
He is the person who comes in without knocking, drops in in the most natural way, as his wife does also, and not seldom in time to take the after-dinner cup of tea before the fire. [4]
Some of the party, exhausted by the climb, and shivering in the rude wind, wanted a fire kindled and a cup of tea made, and thought this the guide's business. [4]
When tea was over, however, and the bridge had begun, her spirits rose; or rather, a new and strange excitement took possession of her that was not wholly due to the novel and revolutionary experience of playing, for money--and winning. [9]
There was only one person in the room, a lady in exquisite toilet, who rose rather languidly to meet him, exactly as if the visitor were accustomed to drop in to tea at that hour. [4]
The afternoon wore on, they returned to the garden for tea, and a peaceful stillness continued to reign about them, the very sky smiling placidly at her fears. [9]
She took tea on the inn veranda, and drove Mrs. Short around Mohair in her victoria. [9]
It was not on account of Cornelia's sighs and sentimentalities and tea and manna and late hours and soft and sweet and industrious enticements; no, it was because "his happiness in his home had been wounded and bruised almost to death. [5]
But Rostov went off to his squadron without waiting for tea. [2]
It was one of those country dinners accompanied with green tea. [4]
The good Archdeacon of the "Eternal Hope" has asked us to take a cup of tea with him. [6]
But the member of our circle whom the reader will hereafter know as Number Seven, began stirring his tea in a nervous sort of way, and I knew that he was getting ready to say something about the case. [6]

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