five-o'clock tea

Example Sentences

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And if I were to drop in for five-o'clock tea, as you say, Leah would be sure to make her appearance and say I was wanted at Gladwyn.'

From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

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

Later on what on terra firma I call my better half had also emerged from below, and was organising a personally conducted five-o'clock tea, made attractive by certain canisters in her private possession.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix

Once, after such a silent sacrifice on her part, Madeline and she drove up to the Percivals’ for five-o’clock tea.

From Jewel Weed by Fisher, Harrison

The united party—numbering, I should think, nearly one hundred—next proceeded on board the 'Sunbeam,' for a very late five-o'clock tea and a hasty inspection of the vessel.

From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)