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

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

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)