five-o'clock tea
Example Sentences
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What a contrast to the afternoons at Glen Cottage,—tennis, and five-o’clock tea, and the company of their young friends!
From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
But, a little more is wanted besides five-o’clock tea; and, until it is granted, we will continue to have matrimonial infelicity, marriages “of convenience,” and, no marriages at all!
From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
There is a fallacy among certain tea-fanciers that the origin of five-o'clock tea was due to hygienic demand.
From The Little Tea Book by Hood, George Washington
The very idea of five-o’clock tea at four is shocking.”
From The Dreamers A Club by Bangs, John Kendrick
The limits of five-o'clock tea were far too narrow.
From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
