At one of the earliest when the Times correspondent was to be present I rode down to Kadikoi bought some calico and cut it up into table napkins - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole Commentator: W. H. Russell

However as we perceived that even after this act of veneration the others continued helping themselves we filled our napkins with the apples - The Satyricon, Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The five damask napkins remaining from the original stock of linen were used only by the blind man - Flower of the Dusk by Myrtle Reed