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On his way back, tired and hungry from shooting, Levin had so distinct a vision of meat-pies that as he approached the hut he seemed to smell and taste them, as Laska had smelt the game, and he immediately told Philip to give him some.
Anna Karenina 2003
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For a price, the cook had provided them not only with fresh rolls dripping with melted butter for their breakfast, but a packet of meat-pies for lunch on the road.
The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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She made hot tea for all of them, served up the last of the meat-pies, and tended to her own scratches and bruises-or at least the ones that she could get to without disrobing.
The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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One of them passed near enough to her that she got a good whiff of his meat-pies, and the aroma made her stomach growl and her mouth water.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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Soon he was back with two meat-pies, gingerbeer, and four enormous jam-tarts.
The Mystery of the Vanished Prince Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966
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Neck or scrag-end, used for cutlets, stews and meat-pies.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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= -- The kinds of food which most frequently produce symptoms of poisoning are pork, veal, beef, meat-pies, potted and tinned meats, sausages, and brawn.
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The hind-knuckle or hock, used for stews, pot-pies, meat-pies.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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"Thank _you_" with a rising inflection, they gazed at the line of mirrors running Britishly all around the room over the long lounge seat, and smiled with the triumphant content which comes to him whose hunger for dreams and hunger for meat-pies are satisfied together.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"I don't believe you'd care much for penny meat-pies."
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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