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  • I also tip my waiter/waitress very well not because I expect her to babysit but because of the horrific mess of food and napking the little toddler is capable of leaving.

    A-hole parenting 101 Tyler 2009

  • Fitzwarren, my mann — we precede to the festive bord — complimence is igschanged with the manner of drinking wind, addressing your neighbor, employing your napking & finger-glas, &c.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • Fitzwarren, my mann — we precede to the festive bord — complimence is igschanged with the manner of drinking wind, addressing your neighbor, employing your napking & finger-glas, &c.

    Burlesques 2006

  • For a simple gift idea, buy a set of four pretty ice cream dishes, a container of jimmies and make a batch of these and package it up nicely in a basket with a big festive napking.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • For a simple gift idea, buy a set of four pretty ice cream dishes, a container of jimmies and make a batch of these and package it up nicely in a basket with a big festive napking.

    Sweetnicks- Food & Life - It's All at Sweetnicks 2006

  • Brekfst is enounced by Fitzwarren, my mann -- we precede to the festive bord -- complimence is igschanged with the manner of drinking wind, addressing your neighbor, employing your napking & finger-glas, &c.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • They being intreated, I was soone wonne to fit her with bels {7: 26}; besides she would haue the olde fashion, with napking on her armes {7: 26}; and to our iumps we fell.

    Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833

  • P. 7, l. 26, the olde fashion, with napking on her armes.] -- "The handkerchiefs, or napkins, as they are sometimes called, were held in the hand, or tied to the shoulders."

    Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833

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