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Examples
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Eddie guessed that if she had failed to do so, the two of them would now look like a couple of giant-economy-size charcoal bri-quets lying on the floor of the Cradle of Lud.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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At any rate, a large room, usually used for ban-quets, was made available for the Fuzzies George Lunt and Ben Rainsford were bringing in for the trial, and the four strangers and their black-and-white kitten were installed there.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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"I don't get any bou-quets in this play!" soliloquised Cornelia, sadly.
Flaming June George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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A story is told of Henry IV., who greatly admired these pillars, having sent to request the town to make him a present of them, as he found nothing in his capital that could compare with their beauty; he received this answer: "Bous quets meste de noustes coos et de noustes beés; mei per co qui es Deus pialars diu temple, aquets que son di Diu, dab eig quep at bejats."
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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Beckham gets a fake money shower and boo - quets as MLS fans let him know what they think of him.
SoccerBlog.com 2009
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** The oriental chriftians ftill made ban - quets of this kind, (fpeaking of the ancient Jewifli feafts of mourning, mentioned Jcr. 16.v. 6« 7« and elfewhere) by a cuftom derived from the Jews, and I have been many times prefent at them among the Armenians of Perfia.
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At the Denver Athletic Club ban - quets, or at dinner with his colleagues at the Brown Palace Hotel, he sometimes spoke sentimentally about "little Mrs. Archie," and he always drank the toast "to our wives,
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(hot, the fituation of the artillcr) 'men will be very pcr»Ious: for eight paces at leaft muft be left between every two guns, to give the men room to work them; tach gun is then ex - pofed to the fire of eight file of mufquetters; or in other words, each artiller\-man to the fire of three or four niuf - quets.
A Treatise on Gun-powder ; A Treatise on Fire-arms ; and A Treatise on the Service of Artillery ... 1789
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Round the World* fum demanded, which occafioned the fending away a fecond mefTenger, and during his abfence, Dr. Solander was feen coming from the town, followed by above a hundred men, fome of whom were armed with muf "quets, and others with lances.
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