As for the dining table, it was dark, old-fashioned walnut, as were the chairs.
It was nine o'clock, and the maids had cleared the dining table.
The dining table, big enough for two ships' crews to eat at, is an example of the latter.
The father was leaning far backwards on an ordinary chair, with his outstretched right arm resting on the dining table.
The two girls sat at the big dining table, and sipped their chocolate, and laughed and talked, and I had the skeleton of a whole turkey on a newspaper that Susan spread on the carpet.
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The first gave a wonderful rich reddiningtable, the second scents the whole interior.
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Florence never left thediningtablewithout first pushing in the chair.
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Sanders served meals for travelers in the back of the service station at his owndiningtable, which seated six people.
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The period piece, a comedy, had the story's characters continually reset adiningtableset for a fine dinner for 14 people.
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Masood grew up in a typical armed forces household with strict discipline, complete with a dinner bell at thediningtable.
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Lewin recognized that for food to go from a store or a garden to thediningtable, there were various decision-making processes it had to pass on the way there.
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These are still largely loaded inserted into dining tables, coffee tables, etc., which are still traded used as complete furnishings.
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There was a small living area, possibly for adiningtable, at the high windows at the mews.
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Each of the major spaces of the house contains a piece of furniture that is its essential element - fireplaces, a sofa, adiningtable, or a desk.
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The safety of consumers is vital, not just for the consumers themselves, obviously, but for the whole food chain from the field to thediningtable.
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So the spare bed for a friend and thediningtableand chairs will have to go because they cannot be fitted into a room 13 by 12.
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The only such items that we have sold since 1997 have been: one antique carpet, one tea table, three armchairs, one sofa, one lectern, one bookcase, onediningtable.
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It is true that there is a board over the bath so that it may be used as adiningtablewhen not being used as a bath.
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Thediningtablewhen fully extended was 65 ft long.
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Most of a "dastarkhawan"diningtableinclude chapatti, rice, dal, vegetable and meat curry.
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