five-o'clock tea
Example Sentences
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Its habit of getting up late you'll agree That it carries too far, when I say That it frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea, And dines on the following day.
From The Best Nonsense Verses by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
I am seated by Sophy at five-o'clock tea: Her table is loaded, for when a girl marries, What cartloads of rubbish they send her from Barry's!
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane
What a craze five-o'clock tea is with you women!
From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
It was before the days of five-o'clock tea.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
I do not believe that now universally honored and observed institution of "five-o'clock tea" dates farther back in the annals of English civilization than this very private and, I think, rather shamefaced practice of it.
From Records of Later Life by Kemble, Fanny
