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

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

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

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

From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar

“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