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The Emperor, after a little more had been said, chiefly on the same subject, proposed that they should pass to the banquet-room.
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“No, foul parricide!” replied the voice; “think of thy father! — think of his death! — think of his banquet-room flooded with his gore, and that poured forth by the hand of a son!”
Ivanhoe 2004
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As he hurried from the banquet-room, he could hear Keaveney tapping on his wine-glass.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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When the queen, followed by Enda, entered the palace, they passed through a crystal hall that led to a banquet-room.
The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales Edmund Leamy
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Assisted by several of the wooers, he climbed up the wall of the banquet-room, and made his exit through the open timbers at the top into a narrow passage which gave access to the inner part of the house.
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The host was determined, and Bar Kamtzah withdrew from the banquet-room in anger.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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The stranger who had presented himself at the Hall that night (by arrangement), asking for Mr. Dancox, thus affording an excuse for his quitting the banquet-room, was a young clergyman of Worcester, come over especially to marry them.
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And when this was perceived by those of the Armenians who were standing by the tyrant's guards, they immediately picked up the shields according to the plan which had been arranged with them, and went on the run to the banquet-room.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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Fortnoye vanished a minute to arrange the banquet-room; and as his wife rushed in to find him, followed by the rest of us, he snatched a great damask cloth from the table, and there was such a set-out of flowers and viands as has seldom been seen in Belgium or elsewhere.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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It has innumerable doors, and windows reaching to the floor, and is as pleasant as the banquet-room of the Americus Club-house.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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