breakfast

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breakfast

The day’s first meal, consumed before lunch.

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Irwine~s elbow, lay the first volume of the Foulis AEschylus, which Arthur knew well by sight; and the silver coffee- pot, which Carroll was bringing in, sent forth a fragrant steam which completed the delights of a bachelor breakfast.

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My girls, will you give them your breakfast as a Christmas present?

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They ate their breakfast with the morning air pouring in upon them.

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Finally he tied his necktie with a curse, and went down to breakfast with little of his good-humour left.

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Well, Monsieur de Busigny, I will bet you," said Athos, "that my three companions, Messieurs Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, and myself, will go and breakfast in the bastion St.

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Lieutenant Godfrey was already attacking his breakfast.

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As he opened the hall door the vile smell of chemicals which had spoilt his breakfast met him with a redoubled virulence.

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Thank God for a good breakfast,' said Squeers, when he had finished.

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We can expect an egg for breakfast, or merely entertain the supposition that there may be an egg for breakfast.

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Oh, no; our breakfast comes from my father's kitchen.

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Fairlie, intimating that he would be glad to see me, as soon as I had done breakfast.

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By this time they had indulged in a good talk and Dorothy had told them all about the awful earthquake and her recent adventures, the breakfast bell rang from the palace and the little girl went inside to join her human comrades.