Sentence examples for tablecloth from inspiring English sources

The good doctor expressed his dismay, but also bafflement that "a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as a tomato sauce stain on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their faeces-stained pants".

But the following morning, as we set off, all that remains of the cloud is a tablecloth draped over the summit in a surround of unspoilt blue.

By 1652, it was so faded that nobody thought twice about cutting a doorway in the bottom of the painted tablecloth.

The dining table has a white doily tablecloth, there are mass-produced dark-wood dining chairs and on the far wall hangs a personal touch: an assortment of corkscrews.

This was the same Beryl who noticed, unsparingly, the spray of dead leaves used to decorate a Camden flat, the "sweet smell of decaying apples" from a dirty tablecloth, the slight slide of a body on a stretcher, or the way one heroine "pulled down the foot of her black stocking to cover her naked toe".

Many new candidates claiming the tea-party tablecloth will run in Republican primaries this year.Yet the Democrats should not take much comfort from this, because few genuine kooks will prevail.

He had thoughts to offer on the mid-term elections (Democrats are in better shape than people think) and his red gingham shirt, a gift from his wife ("I worried I looked like a tablecloth in a diner," he confided).

Face-down on a bloody white tablecloth at the Palace Bar and Grill in Newark, New Jersey, where he was gunned down, Dutch Schultz is nobody's uncle.

Recalling how he found the page hiding under a tablecloth in Barbarina's room, he lifts the cloth that conceals Cherubino.

Accordingly, Isserles wrote a commentary (called Mappa, "Tablecloth") on the Shulḥan ʿarukh that was subsequently printed with Karo's work so that both rites would be represented.

Southerly winds produce a cloud cover over Table Mountain known as the "tablecloth".