They all ate together in the little cabin, as was their habit, a meal prepared by Amalia, and carefully set out with all the dishes the cabin afforded: so few that there were not enough to serve all at once, but eked out by wooden blocks, and small lace serviettes taken from Amalia's store of linen.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The use of serviettes had been long abolished from The Dales.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
This is a series of open shelves, on which are placed the extra napkins or serviettes to be used; for in England the first heavy napkin is taken away, and a more delicate one brought with the Roman punch, with the game another, and with the ices still another.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood