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Meals were irregular and protracted, and there were midnight chafing-dish suppers and bursts of laughter at the most inappropriate hours.
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Twice that morning had a disruption of the whole camp been imminent, only averted by immense concessions from one or the other of these knights of the chafing-dish.
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He never saw the studio any more, nor entertained the local Bohemians with his famous chafing-dish suppers.
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Chicken a la King and Lobster Newburg were specialties of the hotel, and the chafing-dish, introduced by the hotel, became a very popular wedding gift in which the two dishes could be made.
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And right there, in the kitchen, delicious things bubbled in the chafing-dish, our laughter bubbled, and my stomach was keen with a most delicious edge of appetite.
Chapter 30 2010
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The servants had been dismissed for the day, and we returned late at night to a jolly chafing-dish supper.
Chapter 30 2010
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His gaze passed on from the Crouched Venus to a little tea-table with all its fragile and exquisite accessories, and to a shining copper kettle and copper chafing-dish.
Chapter XVIII 2010
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Daylight had thrown two rooms into one, and this was the big living-room where Dede's treasures were placed -- her books, and paintings and photographs, her piano, the Crouched Venus, the chafing-dish and all its glittering accessories.
Chapter XXV 2010
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Twice that morning had a disruption of the whole camp been imminent, only averted by immense concessions from one or the other of these knights of the chafing-dish.
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Dozens of cookbooks devoted sections to chafing-dish recipes, and even more cookbooks were created specifically for the chafing dish.
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