A cold supper was ordered and a bottle of port.

She stayed too late, and when she left, it was dark and time to go home and cook supper for her husband.

Bobby Joe was gone all day now, not coming in for dinner and sometimes not for supper.

She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope.

After supper, Doc called Whitey Gresham, who was now a lieutenant and had a family.

They held the first Burns supper on what they thought was his birthday on 29 January 1802, but in 1803 discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January 1759, and since then suppers have been held on 25 January, Burns ' birthday.

... the maid of honor, Miss Annie Stephens, was as pretty as a French pastel, in a directoire costume of yellow satin with a long coat of green velvet sleeves, and a vest of gold brocade ... The bride was a fair vision of youthful loveliness in her robe of exquisite ivory white and satin ... her slippers were white satin wrought with pearls ... an elegant supper was served.

Long after the personal table fork had become commonplace in France, at the supper celebrating the marriage of the duc de Chartres to Louis XIV's natural daughter in 1692, the seating was described in the court memoirs of Saint-Simon: " King James having his Queen on his right hand and the King on his left, and each with their cadenas.

The work day was six hours, interrupted by dinner ( lunch ) around 11: 00 a. m. and a two-hour siesta, and ended with evening prayers and the rosary, supper, and social activities.

Cooking pots at a church supper: with this method, the lutefisk was boiled for about five minutes, until translucent, then promptly served.

While often used interchangeably with " dinner " today, supper was traditionally a separate meal.

The distinction between dinner and supper was common in United States farming communities into the twentieth century.

In parts of the rural American South and northern England, the word " dinner " traditionally has been used for the midday meal even if it was a light snack taken to school or work ( and not for supper ).

Director Peckinpah noted it was allegoric of the American war in Vietnam, whose violence was nightly televised to American homes at supper time.

In the United States, the sandwich was first promoted as an elaborate meal at supper.

While it was expected that the inviter would pay for dinner, Crisp did his best to " sing for his supper " by regaling his hosts with wonderful stories and yarns much as he did in his theatrical performances.

French philosopher Jean Guitton said that Pope Paul VI's intention was to assimilate the Catholic liturgy to the Protestant :" The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy — but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord ’ s supper ... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, in the Mass and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

Expecting nothing but a nod of thanks, the man was astonished when the general arranged for his supper and a place for him to stay for the night.

Morgan filled the fire box with wood again, then started supper and set the table.

He said, `` I've got some supper ready ''.

`` Maybe to have supper.

About now he's probably having supper.

After their supper, the evening turned into a regular `` Hoe-Down ''.

-- he called all meals supper -- after the butler had announced the meal.

That night after supper I went back over to 48 Spruce Street -- Ralph and I at that time were living at 168 Chestnut -- and Ralph went with me.

All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.

Kate went back and reminded the kitchen women of the supper preparations.

As they waited for supper they sat by the fire, glasses in hand, while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers.

The light supper over, Claire went to him and, slipping an arm about his shoulder, sat on his knee.

Charlie ate some supper in the kitchen and went into the TV room to hear the news.

but they were going up to the Big House after supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and fix her hair a little.

At home, he wouldn't even wash his hands for supper, and he wandered around the yard in a pair of sweaty old corduroys.

Summertime supper, outside, is a natural.

Soup is often the important dish at supper.

After a supper of unagi ( rice with eel -- eel which is raised in an ice-cold pond at the foot of Mt. Fuji ), I returned to my beautiful room to sleep as hard as possible to be ready for another busy day.

The Chicago Press club will fete George E. Barnes, president of the United States Lawn Tennis association, at a cocktail party and buffet supper beginning at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Miss Abra Prentice's debut supper dance in the Casino will wind up the day.

A farewell supper Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sethness Jr. planned Sunday for Italian Consul General and Mrs. Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr. Sethness is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

It was to be nothing more than that.

On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.

There was nothing in particular on the man's face.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

Nothing was said, nothing accomplished.

She reached and reached around the dress, but there was nothing there.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.