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
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
Why, Gaites, you'll be the tea-table talk for a week; you'll be married to that girl before you know it.
From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean
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)
“And have my proceedings and follies really served as tea-table talk to the New Orleans’ gossips?” said I. “Don’t let that annoy you,” replied Ménou.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various
