How To Use Napkin In A Sentence
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As I come out with a stack of napkins and some plates, their conversation quiets and dies down, and we all eat.
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It tastes good; a twist arrives on a napkin.
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A close family friend gave the couple personalized napkins with their names embossed in gold.
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Katy, still dressed in her attorney clothes, a gray tweed suit with a pale-blue silk blouse, tucked her napkin under her chin and dug in to the pirogi.
Hot And Bothered
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Over the years Michele's designs continued to evolve from napkin holders and bracelets to earrings, necklaces, chokers and hair accessories at a rapid pace.
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This being the recognised time to give alms, I was besieged by beggars, who spread their napkins before us on the ground, sprinkled with a few coppers to excite generosity.
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These little puff pastries are served on a white napkin with bowls of chocolate sauce and raspberry coulis for dipping.
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But how shall I forget the solemn splendour of a second course, which was served up in great state by Stripes in a silver dish and cove; a napkin round his dirty thumbs; and consisted of a landrail, not much bigger than a corpulent sparrow.
The Book of Snobs
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And the most important, versatile and unstylish piece of kit you can put on is a napkin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hot water plates are very convenient, and easily procured at any large china shop; but if they cannot be found, put the hot plate containing the chop over a bowl of boiling water, and cover with a hot saucer, fold a napkin around the baked potato, and you can carry the tray containing the dinner through cold halls and up staircases and it will arrive at your patient's room _hot.
Making Good on Private Duty
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You can use ticket stubs or ribbons or receipts or photos or envelopes or napkins to mark your place in books.
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Recovering, he set aside his Haviland plate with the half-eaten cream dariole and dabbed at his mouth with the linen napkin.
The Glory Game
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The babymoon culminates with dinner for two and a half on the beach, all heartshaped raked sands and napkin art.
Times, Sunday Times
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The room was half filled with elderly contessas and solitary, beef-eating gourmands, with napkins stuck in their collars.
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In other words the Greek seems to encompass a profound complexity of meaning as regards the placement (if that is the right word) of the head cloth, napkin, or, in fact, the σουδαριον/sudarium (in essence the same word, evidently a technical term in the repertoire of near eastern undertakers in Roman-occupied Palestine).
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She dabbed her mouth with her table napkin.
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I asked Sarza as she hastily stuffed water bottles, napkins, and granola bars into a tote bag.
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He eats appreciatively after the manner of a _bon vivant; _ he uses his napkin gently and frequently; he glances blandly at the surroundings; watching him, you would suppose the viands were the choicest of the season, exquisitely prepared, while, in reality, they are poor and unsubstantial stuff, the refuse, perhaps, of better restaurants.
Fifth Avenue
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She dabbed her mouth with her table napkin.
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Cantor drew a rough sketch of his apartment on a napkin.
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Add bright napkins and plastic cutlery to make lunch fun.
The Sun
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Wiping the corners of her mouth with the napkin, she brushed the crumbs off her denim coveralls and turned to me.
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Her silver fork with the monogram engraved on the handle, her silver napkin ring.
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he gave the napkins a double fold
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The white linen thing at your place is called a napkin (not a serviette; a serviette is a paper napkin with Christmas trees printed on it).
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In the big lodging house in the town square, the salesmen passing through each have their own distinctive napkin ring.
Times, Sunday Times
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The maid then shook out a large linen table napkin which she placed across the lap of Artemis's best frock.
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I took an extra napkin from a Taco Bell for unspecified use “later.”
Boing Boing
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They were decorated with fancy napkins and tablecloths.
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I tried on a floral two-piece which made me look like an oversized napkin in a serviette ring.
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The table napkin found its way into Mei-Feng's hands and had been twisted and turned into weird shapes.
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I know what you call a napkin is what we call a diaper.
Britpick Question
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Professor Briedis holds on, pointing to the word napkins clearly visible on the box.
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I grabbed a pen and scratched down ‘goodbye’ on a napkin.
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Look at this messy bunch of used napkins, all with yuck inside.
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She did beautiful needlework and she embroidered table napkins.
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Looking lost and fearful, he gave his name and explained he made 150 napkin rings in a day but was reluctant to say any more.
Times, Sunday Times
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The general practice is to place a linen napkin on the bar counter with some of the most used utensils on it.
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Liz, unfold your table napkin.
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Other quick-change options include crocheted doilies, printed tea towels, monogrammed napkins, or hemmed fabric remnants.
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REUSE 5. Swap disposables for reusables for example, adopt handkerchiefs, refillable bottles, shopping totes, cloth napkins, rags, and such.
Maria Rodale: 10 Easy Ways to Becomea Zero-Waste Household
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From shopping receipts to hankies, napkins to the tiniest scraps of paper became handy as they literally mobbed the Hyderabadi beauty for her signature.
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Sleep gas?" I splutter, and before I can wipe my mouth on my lacy white sleeve, he hands me a cloth napkin—also lush red.
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She was fiddling with her table napkin nervously.
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I lost count of how many times the Ali McCoist style waiters called us ‘guys’ and yet kept wanting to refold our napkins and pour our wine (even after we repeatedly told them not to).
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You tink I gif you von plate und knife und fork und napkin; no, go to vork at the oyshters, und here is brod a blenty.
Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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a fold in the napkin
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Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez.
Starting from Scratch
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A strategically-placed napkin saves my cassoulet from the stour as it falls to earth.
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I blew my nose in a napkin and blew my nose again on his handkerchief.
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Use a carving fork to hold the bird, or grip the bird with your hand using a clean pot holder or napkin.
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Apron, Oven Mitten, Pot Holder, Napkin , Table Cloth, Tea Towel, Home and Kitchen Textile Products.
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SMITH: With no one fishing and many restaurants hurting for business, so is Scott Burke (ph), who launders and rents table cloths and napkins about half hour outside New Orleans.
Many In Gulf On Road To Uncertain Compensation
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He drives them back with a napkin, which has been hanging over his arm, crying: "Vate, vate!
The Man from Home
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I nodded and he stood up, gathering the styrofoam containers and empty soft drink cups and crumpled napkins.
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She emerged from the door to see Oracle unfolding a napkin on the rickety table between the chairs, a napkin holding half a dozen buttery scones.
A Plague of Angels
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So she brought me a tankard of red gold, set with pearls and gems of price, full of water mingled with virgin musk and covered with a napkin of green silk, and I addressed myself to drink and was long about my drinking, for I stole glances at her the while, till I could prolong my stay no longer.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She broke down then, hiding her face in her napkin, shaking like a poplar in a windstorm.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Pieces include square tealight holders, napkin holders, flared bud vases and a selection of glasses, decanters and candlesticks in varying sizes.
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Do people still use napkin rings?
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of years ago, they were truly blanketlike—in the eighteenth century, perhaps a square yard or even larger—but more petite napkins are now the rule, as the expectation is that you will not soil your hands, face, or clothes while eating, or at least not much.
HOME COMFORTS
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Then there are long strands of beads and weird exotic flowers in deep colours to wind around trees, banisters, mantelpieces and even table napkins.
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The white linen thing at your place is called a napkin (not a serviette; a serviette is a paper napkin with Christmas trees printed on it).
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As soon as he left our table, we spit the food out, wiping the corners of our mouth with the dainty white napkin.
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The tables all had salmon coloured cloths with white starched napkins, terracotta tile floors, large curtained bay windows and the atmosphere is very bright and happy.
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He picked the napkin from his lap and placed it alongside his plate.
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Service is obviously still taking shape...we weren't offered any water, I had to ask for silverware & napkins, our dishes should have arrived simultaneously to avoid the "no go ahead and start without me" uncomfortableness, we had to wait a bit for the waffles since there was the snafu with the lemon curd, plus the busboy was a bit too intent on clearing our plates quickly.
Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA
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Afterwards, a student purchases the food product, and then obtains the required cutlery and accessories such as straws, napkins and condiment containers.
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Her specialty is pottery and the shelves are lined with mugs, teapots, bowls, candle holders, honey pots and napkin rings.
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Andrew sat down at his private table and gingerly threw his napkin into his lap.
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He was forced to sit for up to 20 hours a day in a squalid back room, sticking tiny pieces of silver onto napkin rings.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am, indeed, seriously angry with you at the quantum of your luckpenny; but, vexed and hurt as I was, I could not help laughing very heartily at the noble lord's apology for the missed napkin.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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The damp napkin/paper towel kind of steams the sausage, so the rice doesn’t get hard.
Woorijip Now Selling Korean Blood Sausage | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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On the desk top, to one side, were a silver napkin ring, a small antique cruet set and a crystal glass of sparkling mineral water.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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They again ignored any and all forms of Systems Engineering just using a napkin sketch to start, then artist drawing.
The LRO Launch Slip NASA Has Still Not Announced Yet - NASA Watch
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Mr. Wellington dabbed the corner of his mouth with his napkin and swallowed as he prepared to make an announcement.
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It's not napkin rings, but I can't stand when cereal box-tops don't easily open and the boxboard starts to separate and rip.
Tagged
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The waitresses were there with the crowd, holding tablecloths, napkins and cutlery.
The Sun
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Her blood left a stain on the napkin
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Please throw the tissue paper and stationary napkins inside the trash can.
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His desk drawers served mainly as a repository for napkins, bromides, and paper clips.
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He removes the china, silverware, good stemware, strips the table of the linen cloth and the napkin and then slams the aggrieved bottle on the table.
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My first fine-dining experiences involved large napkins, a kind of capaciousness matched by great globes of glass for the wines and large plates or bowls for the food, whether a basic pasta in an Italian beach town or some architectural triumph in a two-star establishment outside of Paris, working on its third star.
The Great Shrink
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The napkins were starched, the glass compote was filled with lilies.
DANSVILLE
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Ms. Bing and I asked for help distributing the platters of cookies, fruit, napkins, plates and cups of lemonade.
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And there was one refinement in the rude chalet not always present in regions far less removed from the centres of civilization: besides the cloth -- so coarse as to be a curiosity -- which the woman laid for us over an end of the unscoured table, she put at each of our places, as a matter of course, a fresh napkin of the same rude stuff.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
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He scoffed and studied the origami napkin in front of him.
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Tables have heavily starched white linen tablecloths and bright red napkins as contrast.
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Celestine reached for a pencil and smoothed out the crumpled paper napkin.
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Jezebel is now Five Napkin Burger, and Piece of Chicken is one of the best places to get cheap and quick soul food in Midtown West.
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In the big lodging house in the town square, the salesmen passing through each have their own distinctive napkin ring.
Times, Sunday Times
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US 'cavemen' seek raw truth: Vlad Averbukh says he'll need a napkin at lunch.
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Nora patted the corner of her mouth slightly with a napkin as she watched him drain the glass of water without hesitation.
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Make sure the napkin has a well-stitched edge - a hemstitched napkin works best.
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Fernando reached for a napkin to wipe his eyes, then noticed a crumpled wad of bills under his coffee cup.
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He penned it on a napkin after a heart-to-heart chat in a restaurant.
The Sun
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The surroundings are ‘homely’ with padded cane furniture, raffia placemats and red linen napkins.
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It contains advice for every imaginable hostile situation, from how to booby-trap a napkin, to how to conduct a drive-by shooting, to how to recognize a rattlesnake or treat a scorpion sting.
The Longest War
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So using a roadmap as a napkin, is a MAPKIN. on 06 Sep 2007 at 12: 18 pm anne nahm
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
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Why, this old fellow lives by petty larceny; he hasn't the dignity of a large thief: he is a filcher of caps and napkins from a washerwoman's basket; a robber of hen-roosts; a pocketer of tea-spoons!
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
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Mia dabbed her mouth with a napkin and placed it on her lap.
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A lotus blossom adorns the table and white linen napkins are folded and waiting.
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The remains of the spider, several napkins, and two slices of pizza -- all in incy wincy bitsy spider pieces, plus crumpled napkin and destroyed pizza slices, contaminated no doubt with SPIDER EGGS, ewwwww!
Arrrgh! Spider!!!
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He dabbed at the spot on his tie with a napkin.
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A feeling of quality about the place was enhanced by the starched white tablecloths and napkins, and silver candlesticks.
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Most of the book originated on fast food drive-thru napkins and Post-its where
A Conversation Carolyn Jourdan, author of Heart in the Right Place
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You tell me to always serve warm rolls wrapped in a fresh napkin and to never let a man manage all of my money.
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A napkin fringed at either end is usually thrown over the Figaro’s shoulder and used to wipe the razor.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He sits repeatedly wiping his nose on his handkerchief, and then spreading it out on his lap like a napkin.
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I hadn't seen anything like it before, being used to starched tablecloths and folded napkins.
For Love or Money
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We started playing tic-tac-toe on napkins.
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It was between this and the napkin rings.
The Sun
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Lewisham plunged recklessly — orientally — into an awe-inspiring place with mitred napkins.
Love and Mr Lewisham
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‘No, I'll have my bill,’ Josh answered, reaching for a napkin to wipe a trickle of drool off his chin.
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She glared at him, then spat the mouthful of half-chewed cookie into the napkin.
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In mid pavilion was a fountain adorned with all manner of figures; 500 and by its side stood a table covered with a silken napkin, and on its edge a great porcelain bottle full of wine, with a cup of crystal inlaid with gold.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled “Papa” and
Main Street
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I coquetted a whole minute with my napkin, before I attempted the soup, and I helped myself to the potatory food with a slow dignity that must have perfectly won the heart of the solemn waiter.
Pelham — Volume 03
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Cantor drew a rough sketch of his apartment on a napkin.
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On the teapoy were arrayed cups, bowls, foreign cloth napkins and such things.
Hung Lou Meng
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My friend was having problems of her own, every few moments ducking her head to furtively expunge small pieces of gristle into her napkin.
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He finished his burger and grabbed a napkin from the dispenser in the middle of the table.
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For barbecue or tomato anything, I would use a red napkin, but my favorites are the bright green ones with the striped grosgain ribbon edging.
Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock
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The following is a list of terms used to describe the shape, size, color, consistency, or other characteristics of pathological conditions. millet seed miliary tuberculosis pea-sized plum-sized orange-sized tumors melon-sized pear breast cancer porridge atherosclerotic material napkin rings colon cancers popcorn calcium of hamartoma soupy creamy cheesy discharges anchovy paste word salad schizophrenia oyster ovaries hydatid mole chicken breast rickets cauliflower tumor osteochondroma potato nodes sarcoidosis onion-peel sign Ewing's tumor hard-baked spleen Hodgkin's disease apple-jelly nodules cutaneous tuberculosis strawberry nevus cavernous angioma peau d'orange carcinoma of the breast bacon spleen sago spleen amyloidosis Swiss cheese ventricular septal defects coffee ground emesis gastic bleeding chocolate cysts ovarian endometriosis sugar icing liver chronic perihepatitis port wine urine porphyria corkscrew esophagus diffuse esophageal spasm doughnut kidney bipolar fusion of renal anlagen forkful Colles's fracture
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
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My fingers fidgeted with the white, cloth napkin in my lap.
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The 56-year-old supermodel unfastened her falsies to enjoy her food, explaining to the gossip column, I was so excited talking to my friend that I put my teeth in my napkin, and then I couldn't find them!
Janice Dickinson Loses Two False Teeth, Searches For Them Like 'Lucille Ball On Crack'
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Then he wiped his hands and mouth, throwing the used napkin on his empty plate.
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PLEASE give me a break... just a little one
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He took a cocktail napkin and wrote on it.
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The boys left their dirty napkins at the table.
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There was a plate, knife and fork and a paper napkin for everyone.
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He put the glass down, picking up a napkin to wipe his front, his sleeve, and part of the log.
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Rual answered, crumpling the napkin into a ball.
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Pocket spread napkins over our laps and helped us affix wooden trays to our knees with leather straps.
ANTI-ICE
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Female hygiene products such as douches, perfumed sanitary napkins, frequent bubble baths, synthetic undergarments, which trap moisture, must be avoided.
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‘I'm going to the rest room,’ Kaitlyn announced, folding the monogrammed napkin back in place.
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The rayon and cellulose for tampons and sanitary napkins produced at this mill are made with elemental chlorine.
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In the mean time, we ordered a poulard or two to be roasted, and these, wrapped in a napkin, were put into the boot of the coach, together with bread, wine, and water.
Travels through France and Italy
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REUSE 5. Swap disposables for reusables for example, adopt handkerchiefs, refillable bottles, shopping totes, cloth napkins, rags, and such.
Maria Rodale: 10 Easy Ways to Becomea Zero-Waste Household
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A comprehensive white linen napkin was tucked under his chin.
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The waitresses were there with the crowd, holding tablecloths, napkins and cutlery.
The Sun
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If it was too dressy for this itinerant, Sarima could always drape a napkin over it.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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The resto embodies all that was once meant by dining room: stucco walls, napkins arranged in peaks and two layers of tablecloths.
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The opening allegro was written in a white heat of inspiration, during a holiday in the mountains near Graz; he seems to have run out of manuscript paper, for the last 50 bars are scribbled out on dinner napkins.
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Behind me, there is a prominent display of Kotex napkins and an advertisement for a special sale on Ex-Lax.
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The napkin, blurred and illegible, and the letter clear as day.
THE MANANA MAN
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Jessica Biel: You forgot to untuck your dinner napkin from your dress.
Bonnie Fuller: Oscar Gowns: The Best, The Worst & The What Were They Thinking? An Insta-Review!
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As I dressed her wound, she informed me of how she had initiated her treatment at home by anointing the offending knife with oil, wrapping it in a clean linen napkin, and placing the knife in a drawer.
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The museum's eclectic collection spans 400 years and includes rare pieces like a 1565 Elizabethan table napkin.
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Lexi balled up a napkin and bounced it off his forehead with a deft flick of her wrist.
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And how about people who go to the pizza parlor and empty the red pepper flakes into a napkin to take home (another trait of Papa Hinz), along with most of the rest of the napkins?
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Behind me, there is a prominent display of Kotex napkins and an advertisement for a special sale on Ex-Lax.
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The tables have good quality tablecloths and embroidered linen napkins, matching up with good quality cutlery and comfortable cushioned cane chairs.
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A serviette is a paper napkin Alice Band … why would you think it’s a sanitary towel?!
Permission
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Secondly, having regard to the great swelling and coldness of the limb, we must apply hot bricks round it, and sprinkle them with a decoction of nerval herbs in wine and vinegar, and wrap them in napkins; and to his feet, an earthenware bottle filled with the decoction, corked, and wrapped in cloths.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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Tears poured down my face and I blew my nose in a crumpled napkin I had in my bag.
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Their opinion couldn't matter less around here if they wrote it in crayon on a cocktail napkin.
Rich People Like Gates, Sr. « PubliCola
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Regular visitors may remember my organisation's facilities team who recently sent a circular email to over 200 people because a paper napkin had gone missing.
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In fact you may well be charged extra for tablecloths and napkins in some places!
Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
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Mike got out a pen from his pocket and drew four columns on a table napkin.
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The compost consisted of the EarthShell plates and bowls, unbleached paper napkins, fiber trays, biodegradable trash bags, and food from a federal agency's cafeteria, plus leaves and grass clippings.
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She lengthens her legs down the mattress, sets the four muffin halves side by side on the white cloth napkin that he's unfolded for her, lain over her thighs like a tablecloth.
Featherbedding
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When the fruit napkin is brought he takes it from the glass plate on which it is laid, and either places it at his right hand or across his knee, and the "illuminated rag," as some wit called the little embroidered doyley, which is not meant for use, is, after having been examined and admired, laid on the table, beside the finger-bowl.
Manners and Social Usages
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As I stood in the middle of the ballroom, smoothing out a crease on a white linen napkin and inhaling the sweet scent of lilies, the worst news I could possibly imagine was being delivered by a baby-faced representative from the D.C. Opera Company.
Skipping a Beat
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Jeff exclaimed as he threw his cloth napkin onto the table with a grin.
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Waiter: That's fine. Could you give me some more napkins and some sweet-and-sour sauce and pepper?
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They are also asking for 15 kg of marzipan, 15 kg of fondant icing and 800 paper napkins.
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I remember the second trip where I sat on the beach with a margarita and a napkin jotting down my worldly possessions and what their market value was.
Idle ramblings of a homesick girl
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Add an acorn, or pinecone and you have a very impressive napkin ring.
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That same day another Delta flight to San Diego diverted to Albequerque after a flight attendant found a napkin with the word bomb written on it in the plane's bathroom.
ABC News: Top Stories
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I wiped the cheese on my mouth away with the napkin and quickly chewed and swallowed the chip.
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I hadn't seen anything like it before, being used to starched tablecloths and folded napkins.
For Love or Money
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Norman drank through two cups of black coffee, wiped his lips with a napkin, stood up and said haggardly, "I'm ready.
The Complete Stories Vol 1
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Utensil storage for stirrers and cocktail napkins, as well as glass storage, are also necessary.
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Doilies are the kitsch crocheted napkins that people remember ouma using for afternoon teas.
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The plates had aged with a fine craquelure inside the porcelain, and on the wall just above their heads was a pigeon box for the napkins of regular guests long since departed.
Babylon Nights
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Hide one's talents in a napkin.
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The background is a paper napkin from a pack I bought in Sainsbury's (but they are much too nice to be used as napkins), I then quilted it a bit, added a few feathers, and a load of sequins.
Teacher cards & other bits
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Sam took a paper napkin from the chromium dispenser, crunched it into a ball and handed it to her.
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The only napkin rings at Buckingham Palace are those used by the household.
AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household
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She wrapped a paper napkin around her uneaten pretzel and gave him her full attention.
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Gus said he had to go check out a smell in the crawl space.He set a bottle in front of Rodney, along with a pen and cocktail napkin.
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The company distributes workplace equipment such as napkins, plastic cutlery and the like.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there are long strands of beads and weird exotic flowers in deep colours to wind around trees, banisters, mantelpieces and even table napkins.
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Placemats on the tablecloths and linen napkins complete the picture.
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In fact you may well be charged extra for tablecloths and napkins in some places!
Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
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At every turn, glasses and plates are whisked away and replaced, flatware is realigned, water glasses are refilled, napkins are switched.
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The film's PRs looked oddly amused as they handed out the napkins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pocket spread napkins over our laps and helped us affix wooden trays to our knees with leather straps.
ANTI-ICE
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Use cloth napkins, fold them into accordion pleats and place them in the water glasses.
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He folded the napkin on his lap.
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It belongs in the position of a table napkin, beside a plate.
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A napkin, which lay in front of the diners as they reclined, might serve as a knapsack to take home the little gifts of food or wine with which a host would regale his friends as they departed.
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She walked to him as he unfolded a white cloth napkin and smiled.
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With a corner of his paper napkin Arnold blotted the catsup from his lips.96 `Yeah, I know,' Arnold said.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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These little puff pastries are served on a white napkin with bowls of chocolate sauce and raspberry coulis for dipping, and they're as close as you'll get, in snowbound Manhattan, to a taste of the real thing.
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The company lights were all extinguished; great, strong-smelling, cauliflower-headed moulds, that were always wanting snuffing, usurped the place of Belmont wax; napkins were withdrawn; second-hand table-cloths introduced; marsala did duty for sherry; and the stickjaw pudding assumed a consistency that was almost incompatible with articulation.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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A footman came and did something deft with a spoon and a plate and a linen napkin.
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Napkins are embellished with simple embroidery: Each has a small Christmas tree stitched near one corner.
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We could endure the location only by dipping napkins in deodorant and binding them over our mouths and nostrils.
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