table-covers

Updated: June 27, 2025

I remember one day when she was packing books and music and odd things that she would not of course have taken with her just for a journey, I said to her, "Why, mother, what a lot of books you are taking! And all those table-covers and mats and things you never take those when we go to the sea-side." Papa was standing by and mother looked up at him. "Need I take them?" she said.

Mrs. Molesworth - The Boys and I

The lessons thus given would be at once amusing and instructive both to the governess and children. If preferred, these maps might be painted of a less size, to cover a table. No difficulty would be found to get a set of such table-covers or floor-cloths painted, if the public would once encourage the plan.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age

In the drawing-room the best cushions and table-covers were displayed in all their glory; in the dining-room the table was set out with the precious china tea-service, which saw the light only on festive occasions, while every silver article was polished up to reflecting point.

Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - A Houseful of Girls

He described to us the stage of a theatre, and told us all about how a play was performed and how the actors came on and went off, opening the door between the parlour and the drawing-room and hanging it with table-covers to represent the front of the stage.

Thomas Archer - Miss Grantley's Girls: And the Stories She Told Them

Painters knew not how contemptuously "We" had treated them when they met Mr. Mivers. His "I" was so complimentary that they sent him a tribute of their gratitude. On the other side was his drawing-room, also enriched by many gifts, chiefly from fair hands, embroidered cushions and table-covers, bits of Sevres or old Chelsea, elegant knick-knacks of all kinds.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Kenelm Chillingly — Complete

He speaks of the presents made to guests at feasts, the tablets of ivory and parchment, the dice-boxes, style-cases, toothpicks, golden hair-pins, combs, pomatum, parasols, oil-flasks, tooth-powder, balms and perfumes, slippers, dinner-couches, citron-tables, antique vases, gold-chased cups, snow-strainers, jeweled and crystal vases, rings, spoons, scarlet cloaks, table-covers, Cilician socks, pillows, girdles, aprons, mattresses, lyres, bath-bells, statues, masks, books, musical instruments, and other articles of taste, luxury, or necessity.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.