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Additionally there were ovens, deep and shallow, spiders, skillets, a couple of tea-kettles, a stew kettle, a broiler with a long spider-legged trivet to rest on, a hoe-baker, a biscuit-baker, and waffle-irons with legs like tongs.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
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He did not presently awake his companions; but in a few minutes more, their noise growing louder and louder, the biscuit-baker called to him and asked him what was the matter, and quickly started out too.
A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935
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The soldier showed how to shape it, and they soon by his direction made their tent, and fitted it with poles or staves for the purpose; and thus they were furnished for their journey, viz., three men, one tent, one horse, one gun - for the soldier would not go without arms, for now he said he was no more a biscuit-baker, but a trooper.
A Journal Of The Plague Year Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1935
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Martaban, a chief sea-port of the great city of Pegu, and that the goods belonged to some Portuguese jesuits, and a biscuit-baker of that nation, we took that ship; but as the other two were laden on account of merchants of Pegu, we let them go.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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He did not presently awake his companions; but in a few minutes more, their noise growing louder and louder, the biscuit-baker called to him and asked him what was the matter, and quickly started out too.
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696
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The soldier showed how to shape it, and they soon by his direction made their tent, and fitted it with poles or staves for the purpose; and thus they were furnished for their journey, viz., three men, one tent, one horse, one gun -- for the soldier would not go without arms, for now he said he was no more a biscuit-baker, but a trooper.
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London Daniel Defoe 1696
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