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"Coffee-houses are still a wired thing," says Mark Frauenfelder, associate editor of Wired, the San Francisco-based monthly cyber-hip magazine that regularly lists what's in (wired) and what's out (tired).
Jiving With Java 2008
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Coffee-houses and public places were thronged with people eager to talk the news.
The Virginians 2006
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Coffee-houses and taverns are by no means creditable at Paris.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Coffee-houses and places of refreshment abounding, we halted every five miles to refresh ourselves and the donkeys. 3 At sunset we prayed near a Turkish guard-house, where one of the soldiers kindly supplied me with water for ablution.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Coffee-houses, reading-rooms, municipal gymnasiums, and baths, may each provide a small part, but none of these nor all together fill the gap that is left after the saloon is abolished.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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University, the Bureau, or the Coffee-houses of large towns.
Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald
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Coffee-houses were very numerous; we find mention within the limits of these papers of two others, _Jenny Mann's_ (p. 24, 1. 24), in the Tilt-Yard,
The Coverley Papers Various
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Coffee-houses and clubs for the husband; walks and drives for the wife: and pleasant country jaunts for both.
Chapter II. Book V 1917
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The patron of the early days of the century, who, like Halifax, sought in the Universities or in the London Coffee-houses for literary talent to strengthen the ranks of political party, had disappeared, together with the later and inferior order of patron, who, after the manner of Bubb Dodington, nattered his social pride by maintaining a retinue of poetical clients at his country seat.
A Publisher and His Friends Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1911
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Coffee-houses of distinction are to be found also in the Place of the
All About Coffee 1909
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