breakfast-service

The breakfast-service on the table was equally costly and equally plain; the apparent object had been to spend money without obtaining brilliancy or splendour.

The Warden 2004

After breakfast Grandpapa went off to his study, and Grandmamma rang the bell for Dymock, who carried away the big tea-urn, the silver hot-water dish in which was served Grandpapa's rasher of bacon, the knives and forks, -- everything, in short, on the table except the cups and saucers and the rest of the china belonging to the breakfast-service.

Us An Old Fashioned Story Mrs. Molesworth 1880

And Mark brought his fist down upon the table, so that all the breakfast-service rang.

The Author Of Beltraffio Henry James 1879

The breakfast-service on the table was equally costly and equally plain; the apparent object had been to spend money without obtaining brilliancy or splendour.

The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848

On a small table beside the wood fire, whose mellow light is flirting with the sunbeams upon the carpet, stands an antique silver breakfast-service, which none but the hand of Benvenuto could have chiselled; beside it sits

Charles O'Malley — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839