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The dining-tables had been arranged in a horse-shoe, so as to accommodate fifty people in a room which, in its every-day condition, would not have been too large for thirty.

From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

The green-and-black tablecloths of the school dining-tables were supported on the clothes-line from the backyard.

From The Enchanted Castle by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

With some of the other females, they were accommodated in hammocks swung over the very dining-tables, so that they must needs rise at dawn and be cleared away before breakfast.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

To eyes unused to the profuseness of living that then prevailed on the best class of Western steamboats, the display on the dining-tables of the “New Lucy” was very grand indeed.

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)

Serving of Food.—The dining-tables should be neatly set and made attractive; the food should be promptly served, and while hot; all patients should be at meals, unless excused by the physicians.

From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by Granger, William D.