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Breakfast table

noun

A table where breakfast is eaten.

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"Breakfast table" Quotes from Famous Books

... after putting on my last really respectable waist and inquiring of myself in the mirror how in the world I expected to visit Henrietta Morgan with such a dreary trunkful of travel-worn articles, anyhow, I went down to the breakfast table with my mind ...

— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty

... come, get up," cried nurse to George; "The breakfast table's spread; The porridge will be getting cold, And you are still in bed." George only sighed and turned about, And went to sleep once more. Now did you ever know of such ...

— Careless Jane and Other Tales • Katharine Pyle

... beckoned them to join me in the waist, where I laid the skipper's offer before them, while the Old Man himself and Cunningham remained chatting animatedly together close by the companion, where much of the foregoing conversation had taken place upon our adjournment from the breakfast table. ...

— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood

... place for herself and share their family festival. Dr. Morton could scarcely finish saying grace before there was a general falling to at the parcels. For some reason Dr. Morton had a prejudice against Christmas trees, and it was always the family custom to have the gifts at the breakfast table. ...

— Chicken Little Jane • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... for a President to pile up three columns a morning of news about himself to us, show each man his face in the morning, but what is there he can do with twenty thousand newspapers at his breakfast table, to pick out the real news about us? Who shall paint ...

— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

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