tea-table talk

Example Sentences

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Gradually, as Philip became a fixture in the family circle, his name crept into Elizabeth's tea-table talk.

From Time Magazine Archive

His voice was hard and unsympathetic, and his contributions to the tea-table talk had been almost negligible.

From The Zeppelin's Passenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

The question ceased to be a tea-table talk, and became suddenly tragically real for Ann Veronica.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"What a perfectly gruesome subject for tea-table talk," he said lightly, and beckoned the head-waiter.

From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar

That was the Arkansas planter years ago, before the great sentimental storm swept down upon him, before an evening's tea-table talk in Massachusetts became a tornado of iron in Virginia.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival