They told me that dinners and receptions awaited me at Copenhagen.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
I want to show you, in telling of these events, just how helpless I was; what a victim of circumstance; how unfitted to bear the physical and mental demands of a ceaseless procession of public functions, lectures, dinners, receptions, days and nights of traveling, and how unable to cope with the many charges.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Here, in the pleasant dwelling-rooms decorated by Owen Jones, might be met, at her Sunday afternoon receptions, some of the most eminent men in literature, art, and science.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind