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  • The breakfast of Lady Margaret Bellenden no more resembled a modern dejune, than the great stone-hall at Tillietudlem could brook comparison with a modern drawing-room.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • _dejune_, than the great stone-hall at Tillietudlem could brook comparison with a modern drawing-room.

    Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

  • _dejune_, than the great stone-hall at Tillietudlem could brook comparison with a modern drawing-room.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • The garkong is engaged with the dejune, along with the femmie de chambers, who also waits. "

    A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story Fergus Hume 1895

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