WHY THE PETERKINS HAD A LATE DINNER. THE trouble was in the dumb-waiter. All had seated themselves at the dinner-table, and Amanda had gone to take out the dinner she had sent up from the kitchen on the dumb-waiter. But something was the matter; she could not pull it up. There was the dinner, but she could not reach it. All the family, in turn, went and tried; all pulled together, in vain;the dinner could not be stirred.英文原著 · 《The Peterkin Papers》
So it ended in the doctor's and my dining tete-a-tete on a hastily improvised dinner,--it was then close upon eight, and our normal dinner hour is 6:30,--but it was such an improvised dinner as I am sure Mrs. McGurk never served him. Sallie, wishing to impress me with her invaluableness, did her absolutely Southern best. And after dinner we had coffee before the fire in my comfortable blue library, while the wind howled outside and the shutters banged.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
You went to sleep--a long sleep; no dreams. A nap after dinner! Dinner! His tongue sought his palate! he could eat a good dinner! That dog hadn't put him off his stroke! The best dinner he had ever eaten was the one he gave to Jack Herring, Chichester, Thornworthy, Nick Treffry and Jolyon Forsyte at Pole's. Good Lord!英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Tuesday. We came to Oxford, a very sweet place: paid our guide 1l. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book (Stonhenge,) 4s.; boy that showed me the colleges before dinner, 1s. To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord; and to him that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us All Souls' College and Chichly's picture, 5s. So to see Christ Church with my wife, I seeing several others very fine alone before dinner, and did give the boy that went with me, 1s. Strawberries, 1s. Dinner and servants, 1l.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
His name was Berry, but being "presiding elder," we called him Elder Berry. Elder Berry always stayed for dinner. He was one of the easiest men to get to stay for dinner I ever saw. Mother would stay home from "quart'ly meeting" to get the big dinner ready. She would cook up about all the "brethren" brought in at the last donation. We had one of those stretchable tables, and mother would stretch it clear across the room and put on two table-cloths. She would lap them over in the middle, where the hole was. I would watch her get the big dinner ready.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
But presently she had a misgiving, and looked at her watch. Yes, it wanted but one hour to dinner. Now, her brother was rather a Tartar about punctuality at dinner. She felt she was already in danger of censure for her long _te'te-'a-te'te_ with Severne, though the rain was the culprit. She could not afford to draw every eye upon her by being late for dinner along with him.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Diane and I wanna thank you all for coming to our impromptu rehearsal dinner, even though we did not actually have time - to organize a rehearsal. - Or a dinner.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》