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  • I'm in India, and have two really small kids, so am most unlikely to go to South Africa any time in the near future, but when I do, I will be sure to pick up a tea-set just like yours.

    My Lovely New Tea Set!!! (Yes- it needs 3 exclamation points) Lauri 2010

  • But it's not all bad news for Britney Spears – the court order still allows her to visit her sons every other day, but only so long as someone is monitoring her at the time, presumably in case she gets up to any of her alleged old tricks like taking drugs in front of them or bringing Mr Boo-Boo The Talking Vagina out to play a disturbing game with a plastic tea-set again.

    Britney Spears In Hospital After K-Fed Custody Row 2007

  • Another American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, viewed a porcelain “China tea-set” as strange but intriguing.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Linnea's tea-set bag with tea-things, a drawing pad and pencils, a book, and a stuffed toy.

    It's midnight in the library ailbhe 2006

  • At this moment the hotel waiter brought in a silver tea-set.

    Resurrection 2003

  • Time that was fast closing over them now a basin, now a cupboard; fetched up from oblivion all the Waverley novels and a tea-set one morning; in the afternoon restored to sun and air a brass fender and a set of steel fire-irons.

    To the Lighthouse 2002

  • Not all the furniture, I've neither room nor need for the beds and such, but there's my sideboard, and the good bits and pieces in Betsy's room, and some of the pictures and ornaments, and my rosebud tea-set, and his rocking-chair.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • Not all the furniture, I've neither room nor need for the beds and such, but there's my sideboard, and the good bits and pieces in Betsy's room, and some of the pictures and ornaments, and my rosebud tea-set, and his rocking-chair.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • The candlesticks from the mantelpiece, the rose vases, the china ducks; all these, carefully wrapped in newspapers and old tea-towels, went to join the tea-set, the

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • The candlesticks from the mantelpiece, the rose vases, the china ducks; all these, carefully wrapped in newspapers and old tea-towels, went to join the tea-set, the "best" cloths, the half-dozen silver teaspoons that had been a wedding present from the Pascoes.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

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