tavern table
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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His canvases show mainly sunny people, as if reflected in the elbow-polished wood of a tavern table.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were again elbowed at a tavern table, and compelled to struggle with real and not ideal pioneers for fried beefsteak and soggy doughboys.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
Others of the clan Gregor had come out, allured by tidings of his prosperity; and so the broad Doric of lowland Scotch resounded about the tavern table almost as much as the Canadian twang.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely
The talk at the tavern table that evening ran on merrily among the young people.
From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill
There was a pine tavern table, 17th century in feeling but made nearly two hundred years later.
From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Lieberman, Frank
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