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He would hastily swallow a morsel at some eating-house, and spend all the rest of the day, even when it rained, in going round and round the garden, always walking at the edge of the moat.
Archive 2009-01-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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Forty years later, in 1862, James Nightingale, who owned one of the lots, leased his land to Frederick Loeber, who opened a “restaurant or eating-house.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Forty years later, in 1862, James Nightingale, who owned one of the lots, leased his land to Frederick Loeber, who opened a “restaurant or eating-house.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Forty years later, in 1862, James Nightingale, who owned one of the lots, leased his land to Frederick Loeber, who opened a “restaurant or eating-house.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The young man left them for a few minutes while he went to order a meal at the best eating-house in Taverny; then, returning to fetch them, he led the way through the alleys cut in the forest.
A Second Home 2007
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An Irish pork-merchant was seated at dinner next a Jew, who regarded the pig _in toto_ as an abomination — a lady, a scion of a ducal family, found herself next to a French cook going out to a San Franciscan eating-house — an officer, going out to high command at Halifax, was seated next a rough Californian, who wore “nuggets” of gold for buttons; and there were contrasts even stronger than these.
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The young man left them for a few minutes while he went to order a meal at the best eating-house in Taverny; then, returning to fetch them, he led the way through the alleys cut in the forest.
A Second Home 2007
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Oh, a high-class eating-house, of course — not a pigsty for common sailors.
Ghosts 2006
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I thought of some kind of an eating-house for seafaring folk —
Ghosts 2006
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On the Witwatersrand, the black miners lived not as part of the black community, but a life apart, closely corralled within their compounds, with only the sleazy eating-house cum 'native store' complexes around the compounds as an alternative to compound life.
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