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set the table

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set the table

to put dishes, knives, forks, and spoons on a table before a meal. You make the salad and I'll set the table.

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For, when the mouse had made the fire and fetched in the water, she could retire into her little room and rest until it was time to set the table. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context "I wish sometimes that I could bridle Minnie's," murmured Rebecca, as she went to set the table for supper. Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context "Well," remarked the woman, as she bustled around the room and set the table and brought food from the cupboard, "you were unlucky to live all alone in that dismal forest, which is much worse than the forest around here; but perhaps your luck will change, now you are away from it. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context More results

References in classic literature

For, when the mouse had made the fire and fetched in the water, she could retire into her little room and rest until it was time to set the table.

Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context

"I wish sometimes that I could bridle Minnie's," murmured Rebecca, as she went to set the table for supper.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context

"Well," remarked the woman, as she bustled around the room and set the table and brought food from the cupboard, "you were unlucky to live all alone in that dismal forest, which is much worse than the forest around here; but perhaps your luck will change, now you are away from it.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

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