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  • The red-armed, white-capped proprietress of a _cremerie_ had effected their introduction by regretting to them jointly that she had only one helping of _compote de cerises_ left, and leaving them to arrange its consumption between them.

    A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • With a shrug of the shoulders the model consented, and they went off to a cremerie.

    Of Human Bondage 1919

  • With a shrug of the shoulders the model consented, and they went off to a cremerie.

    Of Human Bondage 1915

  • Every single morning, after eating my modest breakfast at a cremerie near the chateau, I paid my vows in the Salon carre and then absorbed myself in the other halls.

    Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

  • They therefore started off, and as it was nearly eleven, they decided to lunch in a deserted little _cremerie_ in the Rue St. Honore, which they did very leisurely, seized with laziness amidst all their ardent desire to see and know; and enjoying, as it were, a kind of sweet, tender sadness from lingering awhile and recalling memories of their youth.

    His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871

  • He walked along slowly, smoking a cigar, and after he had been to Mme Lerat's he stopped in at a _cremerie_ to take a cup of coffee, and there he sat for an hour or more in deep thought.

    L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

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