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1  The guests were seated at a table which groaned under the quantity of good cheer.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  He weighed it upon the tip of his finger, and made it ring by dropping it upon the table.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  The last ten he told over with much deliberation, pausing, and saying something as he took each piece from the table, and dropt it into his purse.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
4  A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Gurth at length complied; and telling out eighty zecchins upon the table, the Jew delivered out to him an acquittance for the horse and suit of armour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  The knight returned him thanks for his courtesy; and, this duty done, both resumed their seats by the table, whereon stood the trencher of pease placed between them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Cedric himself coldly nodded in answer to the Jew's repeated salutations, and signed to him to take place at the lower end of the table, where, however, no one offered to make room for him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
8  The purveyors of the Prince, who exercised on this and other occasions the full authority of royalty, had swept the country of all that could be collected which was esteemed fit for their master's table.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Isaac at once replaced on the table the untasted glass of Greek wine which he had just raised to his lips, and saying hastily to his daughter, "Rebecca, veil thyself," commanded the stranger to be admitted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  While indulging themselves in the pleasures of the table, they aimed at delicacy, but avoided excess, and were apt to attribute gluttony and drunkenness to the vanquished Saxons, as vices peculiar to their inferior station.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  For this purpose, a table richly covered with scarlet cloth was placed transversely across the platform, from the middle of which ran the longer and lower board, at which the domestics and inferior persons fed, down towards the bottom of the hall.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Over the lower range of table, the roof, as we have noticed, had no covering; the rough plastered walls were left bare, and the rude earthen floor was uncarpeted; the board was uncovered by a cloth, and rude massive benches supplied the place of chairs.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
13  In a hall, the height of which was greatly disproportioned to its extreme length and width, a long oaken table, formed of planks rough-hewn from the forest, and which had scarcely received any polish, stood ready prepared for the evening meal of Cedric the Saxon.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Here sat Wamba, with a small table before him, his heels tucked up against the bar of the chair, his cheeks sucked up so as to make his jaws resemble a pair of nut-crackers, and his eyes half-shut, yet watching with alertness every opportunity to exercise his licensed foolery.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  Having said this, he fixed his torch in a twisted branch of iron which served for a candlestick; and, placing the oaken trivet before the embers of the fire, which he refreshed with some dry wood, he placed a stool upon one side of the table, and beckoned to the knight to do the same upon the other.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
16  Massive chairs and settles of carved oak were placed upon the dais, and over these seats and the more elevated table was fastened a canopy of cloth, which served in some degree to protect the dignitaries who occupied that distinguished station from the weather, and especially from the rain, which in some places found its way through the ill-constructed roof.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
17  The evening was now becoming dark, when a Jewish servant entered the apartment, and placed upon the table two silver lamps, fed with perfumed oil; the richest wines, and the most delicate refreshments, were at the same time displayed by another Israelitish domestic on a small ebony table, inlaid with silver; for, in the interior of their houses, the Jews refused themselves no expensive indulgences.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
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