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  • The bureau was decorated with beer-mugs used the night before, their newness appearing very brilliant in the midst of this rubbish of dirt and age.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • The songs were stirring, and the immense outpour from young life and young lungs, the crash of swords, and the thunder of the beer-mugs gradually worked a body up to what seemed the last possible summit of excitement.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • There was an excited whisper at our table — “Mommsen!” — and the whole house rose — rose and shouted and stamped and clapped and banged the beer-mugs.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Several others moved about the room, collecting or serving beer-mugs.

    Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

  • He accompanied him into a large brasserie, packed with business-men talking noisily, to the accompaniment of a tireless Viennese orchestra and the clink of beer-mugs.

    Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • She was glad to see them and took them into a shabby room, the chief decorations of which were a set of pewter beer-mugs and a large oleograph of the King and Queen in coronation robes.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • She was glad to see them and took them into a shabby room, the chief decorations of which were a set of pewter beer-mugs and a large oleograph of the King and Queen in coronation robes.

    A Town Like Alice Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1950

  • Cards and coins and overturned beer-mugs littered the floor.

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • She can dance blindfold upon a table full of beer-mugs without spilling a drop.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • She can dance blindfold upon a table full of beer-mugs without spilling a drop.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

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