tea-and-tract

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A certain prostrate look of sly, shy humility, lengthened their pale faces, to the exclusion of all intellectual expression. They formed a sort of religious meeting, called a tea-and-tract party; but the open door discovered preparations for a more substantial conclusion to the obbligato prayers and lectures of the evening.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 17, No. 489, May 14, 1831