doyleys

Updated: May 17, 2025

But they are never used at a "stand-up" breakfast, nor are doyleys or finger- bowls. If any accident happens, such as the spilling of a glass of wine or the upsetting of a plate, the d,bris should be carefully cleared away, and the waiter should spread a clean napkin over the desecrated table-cloth.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages

Sheldon; and crimped skate; and sirloin of beef, and the inevitable discussion as to whether it is in a cannibal state of rawness or burnt to a cinder; and the glasses of pale sherry; and the red worsted doyleys and blue finger-glasses; and the almonds and raisins, and crisp biscuits, that nobody ever eats; and the dreary, dreary funereal business of dinner, when we all talk vapid nonsense, with an ever-present consciousness of the parlourmaid.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Charlotte's Inheritance

These should be removed when the fruit course is brought, and with each finger-bowl should be a colored napkin, with which to dry the fingers. Pretty little fanciful doyleys are now also put under the finger- bowl, merely to be looked at.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages

Reticules made of bright cotton, or silk handkerchiefs with borders; cards painted by the artists of the family; palm-leaf fans covered with real flowers, or painted with imitation ones; sunflowers made of pasteboard, with portfolios behind them; pretty little parasols of flowers; Little Red Riding-hood, officiating as a receptacle for stray pennies; Japanese teapots, with the "cozy" made at home; little doyleys wrought with delightful designs from "Pretty Peggy," and numberless other graceful and charming trifles.

Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood - Manners and Social Usages