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On my blog I tend to think it matters not. doesn't clock on until coffee-time
They Can`t Help Themselves You know Newmania 2007
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Don't tell me your spelling is suffering from 'skulking behind the PC at work' syndrome at this hour - surely the Boss doesn't clock on until coffee-time
They Can`t Help Themselves You know Newmania 2007
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PERI takes a look at the current coffee-time competition:
Scorecard 2008
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It was one of those gut-wrenchingly funny coffee-time discussions, seemingly all the more savourable for the clock counting down to a class that conscience dictated he must attend.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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In front of each of these hotels is a double row of tables and a hedge, and then the trees, under which, while the orchestras play, all Pest comes to stroll and take the air between coffee-time and the late Hungarian dinner.
Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905
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For John, taking up the young and the old, the quick and the dead, of masculine Kings Port, proceeded to narrate their private exploits, until by coffee-time he had unrolled for me the richest tapestry of gayeties that I remember, and I sat without breath, tearful and aching, while the two negroes had retired far into the kitchen to muffle their emotions.
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
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Please have the mare and spider here by mid-day coffee-time.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Why should I have kept so sacredly uneffaced, for instance, our small afternoon wait at tea-time or, as we made it, coffee-time, in the little brown piazzetta of Velletri, just short of the final push on through the flushed Castelli Romani and the drop and home - stretch across the darkening Campagna?
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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A telegram used to be dispatched to her at coffee-time, and it used to consist of the words, "Herr Sivertsen is at the machinery;" for it was he who gave the signal for drawing the curtain up and down and for changing the scenes.
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O. Salepito thinks .. great coffee-time, game went as far as level 5 (offline):) 5minute play
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