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  • Like Bill Cosby told his wife when he fed the kids cake for breakfast,

    What are your Christmas plans? 2006

  • ‘By the Lord, Sir,’ cried the Major, bursting into speech at sight of the waiter, who was come to announce breakfast,

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • A bureau was there, in which to put away the studio implements, a table for breakfast,

    Pierre Grassou 2007

  • A bureau was there, in which to put away the studio implements, a table for breakfast,

    Pierre Grassou 2007

  • “Depend upon it,” I said to Kate, only yesterday morning at breakfast,

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • All this passed overnight, for the journey was to begin very early in the morning; and when the small, diminished party met at breakfast,

    Mansfield Park 2004

  • Her disappearance was a vast relief, of course, but how could he now avoid going to the breakfast,

    Slightly Dangerous Balogh, Mary 2004

  • Whilst she, with tears, prepared what was needed for breakfast,

    Taras Bulba 2003

  • I remember, next morning, as we sat at a very late breakfast,

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • And then I like to have another cup of coffee with my breakfast,

    Addicted to Stress 1997

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