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  • Coffee-house singer Crystal Bowersox has promised she's going to really shake things up this week as she sings "Midnight Train to Georgia."

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  • Up, and after my wife had dressed herself very fine in her new laced gown, and very handsome indeed, W. Howe also coming to see us, I carried her by coach to my uncle Wight†™ s and set her down there, and W. Howe and I to the Coffee-house, [...] [Read more →]

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  • Coffee-house, PER AMBAGES of Peter Drudgeit, employed to that effect by and through the device, counsel, and covyne of Saunders Fairford, his agent, or pretended agent.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • He complied, and they were both silent till they came to a Coffee-house, where they asked for a private room.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Garden Coffee-house, whence they proceeded to the play; but was above all happy when Mr. and Lady Agnes Foker, who happened to be in London, requested the pleasure of Major Pendennis and Mr. Arthur

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Garden Coffee-house, where he put up: he called a cab and rattled away thither in the highest spirits.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Coffee-house was once situated — George Osborne came into the coffee-room, looking very haggard and pale; although dressed rather smartly in a blue coat and brass buttons, and a neat buff waistcoat of the fashion of those days.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • The very first acquaintance of his own whom Arthur met, as the coach pulled up at the Gloster Coffee-house, was his old friend

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Coffee-house, in the Strand; and Fanny confessed that she was in a sad tremor about the meeting.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • I went to the Bedford Coffee-house in the evening, where I met my friends, from thence proceeded to the play, and afterwards carried them home to my lodgings, where we supped in great good humour.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

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