1 Then Ali brought on the dessert, or rather took the baskets from the hands of the statues and placed them on the table.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 2 During dessert, the servant inquired at what time they wished for the carriage.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome. 3 I shall come back to dessert; keep me some strawberries, coffee, and cigars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 4 They had long since passed to dessert and cigars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 5 When the dessert and the wine were arranged, and Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor were left by themselves, they remained long together in a similarity of thoughtfulness and silence.
6 These preparations happily completed, I bought a little dessert in Covent Garden Market, and gave a rather extensive order at a retail wine-merchant's in that vicinity.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION 7 These, however, were small drawbacks, and easily forgotten when the cloth was cleared, and the dessert put on the table; at which period of the entertainment the handy young man was discovered to be speechless.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION 8 And still every morning he went into the city by tram and every evening walked home from the city after having dined moderately in George's Street and read the evening paper for dessert.
9 I have ten thousand knives and forks, and the same quantity of dessert spoons.
10 On the piano is a dessert dish heaped with fruit and sweets, mostly chocolates.
11 Mrs. Sands called it a good year if she could make six pots of apricot jam from them--the fruit was never sweet enough for dessert.
12 Candish, with his curved brush had swept the crumbs; had spared the petals and finally left the family to dessert.
13 In the drawing-room the company found dessert awaiting them in the shape of pears, plums, and apples; but since neither host nor guest could tackle these particular dainties the hostess removed them to another room.
14 "Here is more dessert," she said.
15 He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three sous, and a three-sou dessert.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR