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During your walk you have been making up your mind that that cold meat, with moderation and a pickle, will be a very sufficient dinner: you have accustomed your thoughts to it; and here, in place of it, is a turkey, surrounded by coarse sausages, or a reeking pigeon-pie or a fulsome roast-pig.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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“Who ate up the three pigeons which went down in the pigeon-pie at breakfast this morning?”
Roundabout Papers 2006
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“Very much indeed,” said Lord Rufford, filling his mouth with pigeon-pie as he spoke, and not lifting his eyes from his plate.
The American Senator 2004
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So Mother asked the Cook to make a large pigeon-pie.
The Railway Children Edith 2003
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So Mother asked the Cook to make a large pigeon-pie.
The Railway Children Edith 2003
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Tom has eaten kidney and pigeon-pie, and imbibed coffee, till his little skin is as tight as a drum; and then has the further pleasure of paying head waiter out of his own purse, in a dignified manner, and walks out before the inn-door to see the horses put to.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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The prisoners on board this vessel alleged that they were very poor and that their loading consisted only of cotton, though the circumstances in which the barge surprised them seemed to insinuate that they were more opulent than they pretended to be, for the Gloucester's people found them at dinner upon pigeon-pie served up in silver dishes.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter
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"We must have a pigeon-pie," he observed as he took it.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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After conducting the tramp to the pantry, and letting him loose on a cold pigeon-pie and other viands, and finally installing him on the study sofa,
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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There always was cold pigeon-pie in the pantry, just the way we have doughnuts.
Understood Betsy 1917
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