At dinner the courses were carried in by tall cuirassiers in red capes and black fur caps topped with tufts of feathers, marching in pairs like guards from a stage tragedy.

The corporation entertained him for dinner at Quiney's house in 1596/7, with wine and sugar sent by the bailiff, Sturley.

He had written to me about a dinner he had had with the Benedictine monks at St. Anselm's Priory in Washington.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread out like a serpent with two heads.

`` She wants you and Barbara to have dinner with her tomorrow night ''.

Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

Following arrowed signs, I veered right toward the former kitchens, complete with chimneys, which now house one of the world's greatest collections of Chinese porcelain and a fabulous array of silver dinner services.

The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.

This dinner was the start of a new blatancy in the relationship between the gangs and the politicians, which, prior to 1924, says Pasley, `` had been maintained with more or less stealth '', but which henceforth was marked by these ostentatious gatherings, denounced by a clergyman as `` Belshazzar feasts '', at which `` politicians fraternized cheek by jowl with gangsters, openly, in the big downtown hotels ''.

As the robbers leave the looted train, the film suddenly cuts back to the station, where the telegrapher's little daughter arrives with her father's dinner pail only to find him bound on the floor.

`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

Yes, she had missed it after her talk with Emile, after dinner, just before Emile was shot.

The international theme will be continued with the Balkan strings playing for a dinner the Byron Harveys will give in the Racquet club after the tea.

Cocktails will be served from 6 to 7 p.m., with dinner at 7 and entertainment in the main dining room immediately following.

But she does indicate festivities will start early, that a jazz combo will `` give with the Basin Street beat '' during the cocktail and dinner hours and that Lester Lanin's orchestra will take over during the dancing.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

Have a fellowship luncheon or dinner with new members as guests.

Earlier this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.

Imagine a stag dinner with Toodle Williams ''.

Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

A sirloin steak dinner, served with sautéing | sauteed onion, french fries, broccoli, carrot s, and snow pea s, garnish ( food ) | garnished with chive s.

Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.

The dinner gong, just outside the dining hall, was originally the bell of the HMS Ocean and was presented to Fitzwilliam House by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John in 1962.

The sketch presents the 90th birthday of elderly upper-class Englishwoman Miss Sophie, who hosts a celebration dinner every year for her friends Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby, and Admiral von Schneider.

A ceremonial dinner is given back in Cape Town and Admiral Bertie, under the impression that Aubrey has influential political connections, gives Aubrey the honour of taking the dispatches aboard the Boadicea and sailing for England in compensation for " stealing " his victory.

The Admiral comes to the Bellona to thank Stephen for his treatment and also invites Jack to dinner with all the captains on the flagship.

At the dinner the Admiral informs the captains of progress in the war on land and predicts Napoleon's imminent surrender.

White's presence at Port Hudson is supported by a secondhand account of a postwar dinner conversation he had with Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, a Union veteran of Port Hudson, and another recounted by Admiral George Dewey ( then a Federal naval officer at Port Hudson ), in both of which White mentioned his presence during the siege.

Admiral Evans hosted a Christmas dinner for the officers of Kentucky at the Moana Hotel in Waikiki.

At a dinner in the Americans ' honor the night of their arrival, the Commander in Chief of the Coasts of Ireland, Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly asked Commander Taussig, " When will you be ready to go to sea?

In 1894, Chung Keng Quee hosted in his own gardens, in the name of Vice Consul Chang, Pi Shih ( Cheong Fatt Tze ), a dinner to welcome Admiral Ting ( see Battle of Yalu River ( 1894 ) and Battle of Weihaiwei ) and the Chinese Imperial Fleet of warships that he commanded.

Nine-year-old Troy ( Zelda Harris ) and her older brothers Clinton ( Carlton Williams ), Wendell ( Sharif Rashed ), Nate ( Chris Knowings ), and her younger brother, Joseph ( Tse-Mach Washington ) are introduced as their father Woody ( Delroy Lindo ) is blowing a horn to call them in from playing to eat dinner.

At dinner one night, when he was fourteen, Richard announced, `` There is only one god ''.

As the family was eating dinner that night, Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the detachment, came in and announced that the family's kitchen boy and Alexei's playmate, 14-year-old Leonid Sednev, must gather his things and go to a family member.

The convention was recessed for dinner, and as a favor to Roscoe Conkling, the party bosses announced that they would let the New York delegation pick the candidate for Vice President.

As the stagecoach passed east over Lynches River on the ferry, a Johnson slave in charge of the ferry mules announced the number of passengers with blast from a fox horn: one blast for each passenger, thus informing Mrs. Johnson of the number of places that should be set for dinner.

However, when Castellano announced a dinner meeting on December 16th, Gotti and the other conspirators decided to kill him then.

The emblem of Colby University, c. 1895 On August 9th, 1865, a Boston merchant, prominent Baptist philanthropist, and Maine native Gardner Colby, attended Waterville College's commencement dinner, and unbeknownst to anyone in attendance except college president James Tift Champlin, announced a matching $ 50, 000 donation that would allow the college to remain open.

In June 2007, before the annual Arkansas Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson dinner, Pryor announced his endorsement of his colleague Sen. Hillary Clinton ( D-NY ), who served as First Lady of Arkansas for 12 years, for the President of the United States.

On 11 July 1791, a Birmingham newspaper announced that on 14 July, the second anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, there would be a dinner at a local hotel to commemorate the outbreak of the French Revolution ; the invitation encouraged " any Friend to Freedom " to attend:

At a dinner party, Tordenskiold told of a friend who had been cheated while gambling with a man who claimed to own a Hydra, to which von Holstein announced he was the owner of the said creature and took offence at being called a cheater.

At mid-day, when dinner was announced, the Guru made no response.

On Friday 1 April 1949, Norman Collins, the then Controller of the BBC Television Service, announced at the Television Society's annual dinner at the Waldorf Hotel that a new TV centre would be built in Shepherd's Bush.

On February 29, 2004 the couple invited their friends to a dinner supposedly to celebrate the birth of their son ; however they announced that they in fact had eloped.

" Chandler's parents announced their divorce to him over Thanksgiving dinner when he was nine years old, an event which causes him to refuse to celebrate the holiday in his adulthood.

On the 14 January 1908 at the annual College Colston society dinner George Alfred Wills rose to his feet and dramatically announced the news that his father, Henry Overton, was to donate £ 100, 000 to the cause promoting the creation of the University providing that a Royal Charter was obtained within two years.

" Rancour explains that each murder was planned according to the victim's habits: Clive punctally announced dinner on the stairs at 7: 15 for example, when the bomb was to be set off.

The winners in each language are announced in November, and compete for the Best in the World, announced in April of the following year at a gala dinner.

On 21 April 2005, the FSA announced that some batches of Old El Paso dinner kits had been contaminated with the dye, and issued an alert.

Printed advertisements for the product announced, " Now all dogs can come home to the dinner Lassie comes home to.

On September 2, 2005 at the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia 35th Annual National Delegates Conference dinner, Dr. Lim announced that he would be retiring as President on April 8, 2007, which was also his 68th birthday.

The winner is announced at a dinner in Oxford in July, to which the shortlisted candidates are all invited.

The next day, Dinah and Mallet had a small dinner party where they announced the news.

* In an address at the annual Woodrow Wilson Foundation dinner in Washington, President Roosevelt announced a change in American foreign policy, declaring that " the definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention.

At a Vincent Owners ' Club dinner in the summer of 1955, Phil Vincent announced that the company could no longer continue in the face of heavy losses and that production of motorcycles would cease almost immediately.