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
What?—wouldst thou become a jest and byword for every tavern table between the Temple and the Tower?
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
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
Yet, when he placed his squat figure behind a tavern table, and looked at me quietly with his mouth shut, he was both handsome and distinguished in appearance.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 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
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