tea-table talk

Example Sentences

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Gradually, as Philip became a fixture in the family circle, his name crept into Elizabeth's tea-table talk.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And have my proceedings and follies really served as tea-table talk to the New Orleans’ gossips?” said I. “Don’t let that annoy you,” replied Ménou.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

"What a perfectly gruesome subject for tea-table talk," he said lightly, and beckoned the head-waiter.

From The Green Rust by Wallace, Edgar

His voice was hard and unsympathetic, and his contributions to the tea-table talk had been almost negligible.

From The Zeppelin's Passenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

That was the Arkansas planter years ago, before the great sentimental storm swept down upon him, before an evening's tea-table talk in Massachusetts became a tornado of iron in Virginia.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival