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Her _charcuterie_ renowned far and wide for its hot meat patès, ready just at noon, had been under constant fire ever since the invasion, but had never yet failed to produce its customary ovenful at the appointed hour.
With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard
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Maggie's broad back was bent over her ovenful, and Caroline clicked the door-knob unchallenged.
While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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"I should have thought," said Mrs. Morel bitterly, "that she wouldn't have occupied you so entirely as to burn a whole ovenful of bread."
Sons and Lovers 1913
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"I should have thought," said Mrs. Morel bitterly, "that she wouldn't have occupied you so entirely as to burn a whole ovenful of bread."
Sons and Lovers 1907
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When the earthquake shook his house, did the baker snatch out the rest of the ovenful to feed his hungry family as they groped about for safety in the terrible darkness?
Buried Cities, Complete Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae Jennie Hall 1898
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When the earthquake shook his house, did the baker snatch out the rest of the ovenful to feed his hungry family as they groped about for safety in the terrible darkness?
Buried Cities, Volume 1 Pompeii Jennie Hall 1898
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As soon as one ovenful was baked it was replenished with new, and the freshly baked loaves at once cut up and distributed.
At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative 1889
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Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics -- there a kettle of dudecimo melanges.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and making an awful face, and saying: 'I have eaten a whole ovenful of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I?
Grimm's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Grimm 1822
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"I have eaten a whole ovenful of loaves, but what help is that when a man is as hungry as I am?
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