five-o'clock tea
Example Sentences
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I breakfasted alone in my own cabin, where everything was provided for me that I could desire, and always lunched and took five-o'clock tea with the officers.
From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony
What a craze five-o'clock tea is with you women!
From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
The very idea of five-o’clock tea at four is shocking.”
From The Dreamers A Club by Bangs, John Kendrick
I am seated by Sophy at five-o'clock tea: Her table is loaded, for when a girl marries, What cartloads of rubbish they send her from Barry's!
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane
What a contrast to the afternoons at Glen Cottage,—tennis, and five-o’clock tea, and the company of their young friends!
From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
