napkin * , also: table napkin , also: serviette BrE

Let me, the boy said, and he took the napkin from her.

Through most of this she'd been looking down into her napkin.

I looked down to see the woman who had been running with the napkins.

Then he looked at me and took the napkin away from his mouth.

I reached across the table and took the napkin away.

It would have looked exactly like him if he were the color of a blue napkin.

Then he took up the first of the napkins and set to work on it.

The story goes that he designed it on a napkin.

I threw my napkin on the table and got up.

Without a word, he threw down his napkin and left the room.

She picked up a napkin and held it close to her heart.

The points system was written on a bar room napkin.

He wrote the address on a napkin and gave it to me.

He took the napkin from her and set his cup aside.

With his napkin in hand, he walked to the other side of the kitchen.

I reached for a paper napkin and simply wrote, "What are you doing the rest of your life?"

A woman, about six months after, came to claim it with the other half of the napkin.

She wiped her eyes several times with a paper napkin.

He switched the napkin to the side of his hair.

I nodded and played with my napkin for a moment.

He peered at the napkin over the top of them.

And holding that napkin over his mouth all the time.

I throw down my napkin and go to the window.

George drew a line on the napkin, as if to add up the total.

Sara played with the napkin, not sure what to say.

Here's the colour we were thinking of for the table napkins.

One of the earliest references to table napkins in English dates to 1384-85.

"I said they've got to win the first turf battles even if they're about the table napkins.

Jamie had picked up his table napkin and was folding it up.

Table napkins can be made of tissue paper.

Wycliffe folded his table napkin and got up from his chair.

She smiled at him over the table napkin, which was removing a minute trace of profiterole.

Serviette, especially in Eastern Canada, for a paper table napkin.

Henry was currently using the color-coordinated table napkins for handkerchiefs.

I was afraid the day he chewed up one of her good table napkins she was going to send him away.

The plaster "cloth" might be a forgotten handkerchief or table napkin cast aside.

Isabel arranged her table napkin on her lap and picked up the menu.

We tied a table napkin round the bell to prevent it from ringing and then I got down to it.

A table napkin under his arm.

I would watch with admiration while she dexterously flicked the table napkins into fancy shapes and set them out.

Daisy blew her nose on her red-checked table napkin, then realized what she'd done.

She dabbed away the last tear with her lace table napkin, and he saw her mood shift.

Following Aisha's lead, he picked up the large linen table napkin and placed it in his lap.

Simeon was about to answer when he suddenly turned his face aside and clasped a table napkin to his nose.

Lucy patted her lips with her table napkin.

Aunt Lin asked, opening her table napkin and arranging it across her plump lap.

They were using linen table napkins to bind up the arm and try and staunch the bleeding.

She was folding Angela's perfectly ironed table napkins into fans when she heard a car.

Đorđević, reputedly, wrote the application on the table napkin.

"Some people write on the backs of envelopes, or jot notes on table napkins.

The paper cup was far too hot, even when she used three or four serviettes to hold it.

He passed the serviette to me, his eyes fixed on the man.

The chief rose, wiping his mouth with a paper serviette.

"This roof was actually designed over lunch on a serviette."

I put my serviette on the table and rose.

"Sorry I'm a bit late," he said, drying off his hair with a serviette.

Lung designed the album cover on serviettes from his pocket.

He leaves bullet in a serviette for Jim and departs.

"I love the lace of the serviettes," says the woman with the brocade in her hair.

A cat, on its way back from lunch, paused beside him in order to use his leg as a serviette.

Serviette, especially in Eastern Canada, for a paper table napkin.

No one you know,' she says, picking holes in my balled-up serviette.

He picked up a serviette and sat down, tucking it into the neck of his shirt.

Banks mopped his brow with the serviette and studied the options.

As I sat down Ian tied a giant serviette around my neck.

These are the serviettes Who's coming over?

They also have a plate, a set of cutlery, a serviette, a canvas bag, and prayer book.

He started to call a napkin a serviette and to omit every single syllable in "extraordinary."

Wrapped in a serviette it was lying on the lap of a fat, snoozing gentleman.

He wiped it off with a serviette.

Jenny sipped some lager and dabbed her lips with a paper serviette.

"I don't know as I do," he said, spreading a serviette on a corner of the table, and not looking at her.

She flicked a serviette over the table absently.

That in that shop, we got the serviettes from ah, look at those elephants mum.

I leaned forward and grabbed a serviette.