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Examples
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Before the breakfast-hour arrived, they had fenced off with a ditch the only side on which lay ingress into the place, and had palisaded off the whole, leaving only three gates.
Anabasis 2007
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The breakfast-hour was nominally seven, and afterwards
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Her lute and favorite airs lost half their power to please; the day seemed to stand still — she became melancholy, and thought the breakfast-hour would never arrive.
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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At the usual breakfast-hour the doctor entered the parlour with
Doctor Thorne 2004
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The rector, he knows, breakfasts alone at half-past nine, the ladies of the family having a different breakfast-hour; Arthur will have an early ride over the hill and breakfast with him.
Adam Bede 2004
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The hall-clock struck the adjourned breakfast-hour.
No Name 2003
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Look for much breakfast-hour ridiculing from Mr. Cafferty and Ms. Zahn as the summer progresses.
The Fox-CNN Trash Talk Contest ��� Bryant's Boss Takes a Leap ��� Bon Soir, Mole Deux! 2002
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It was hard to talk over the breakfast-hour din, but in a way the noise and the smells were reassuring.
Cradle and All Patterson, James, 1947- 2000
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It was hard to talk over the breakfast-hour din, but in a way the noise and the smells were reassuring.
Cradle and All Patterson, James, 1947- 2000
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It was hard to talk over the breakfast-hour din, but in a way the noise and the smells were reassuring.
Cradle and All Patterson, James, 1947- 2000
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