table napkin

Example Sentences

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He had a peerless touch with silver teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him.

From Time Magazine Archive

He holds up a bloodied table napkin or a child's dress stained by chocolate ice cream and demonstrates how Axion helps clean them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later, a laughing girl whose blue-black hair was banded Madonna-wise around a head considerably otherwise, washed it off with a table napkin dipped in wine.

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway

It emerged all dripping from the coffee, and Mr. Zwiebel was accustomed to cleansing it with his lower lip and polishing it off with his table napkin.

From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague

Next minute he was seated alone at a large table, stared at by defunct Rochesters and their wives, and spreading his table napkin on his knees.

From The Man Who Lost Himself by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)