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  • Down into the banquethall I sped, and there in the twilight was the litter of the feast still about -- gold cups and silver, broken bread and meat, the convolvulus flowers all turning their pallid faces to the rosy daylight, making pools of brightness between the shadows.

    Gulliver of Mars 1905

  • Down into the banquethall I sped, and there in the twilight was the litter of the feast still about -- gold cups and silver, broken bread and meat, the convolvulus flowers all turning their pallid faces to the rosy daylight, making pools of brightness between the shadows.

    Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

  • When the caroches of the nobles had set down their owners at the banquethall, their varlets and servitors came to quaff a flagon of nut-brown ale in the 'King's Arms' gardens hard by.

    The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • When the caroches of the nobles had set down their owners at the banquethall, their varlets and servitors came to quaff a flagon of nut-brown ale in the ‘King’s Arms’ gardens hard by.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

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