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For something light to eat or an afternoon drink, try Marco Polo, at 1 Abovian St. For dinner,
Time-Traveling in Armenia James Fidler 2010
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Anonymous said ... tobin anderson, thank you for coming to comment. as someone too timid to sign a name to posts, i appreciate, all the more, others who do. off to dinner,
"Crap, here comes Teacher!" Roger Sutton 2007
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Yet, though nothing could be more spiritless than the hour of dinner,
Camilla 2008
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Poor Peggotty lifted up her hands and eyes, and only answered, in a sort of paraphrase of the grace I usually repeated after dinner,
David Copperfield 2007
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I give you my word I am never conscious of her existence; and if I meet her at dinner,
The Newcomes 2006
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Before breakfast, a walk with Sir Pitt and his spud; after breakfast studies (such as they are) in the schoolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am become); after dinner,
Vanity Fair 2006
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As she was going through the room to begin preparing dinner,
Sister Carrie 2004
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Emma smiled and chatted as cheerfully as she could, to keep him from such thoughts; but when tea came, it was impossible for him not to say exactly as he had said at dinner,
Emma 2004
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If you like Mr Brehgert to come here on Tuesday evening, when the rooms will be full, you can ask him; but as for having him to dinner,
The Way We Live Now 2004
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‘Oh, mother!’ said Meg, rushing into the room where her mother, and Jane, and Anty, were at dinner,
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