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"It makes you sick," Mrs. Dunlap says over beef-stew in her dining room.
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My mom made it with pieces of meat beef-stew style, but otherwise, it looks really similar.
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There were three big iron pots, one filled with beef-stew, one with boiled rice, and one with boiled peas; there was a big demijohn of rum (all along the trenches which the Spaniards held were empty wine and liquor bottles); there were a number of loaves of rice-bread; and there were even some small cans of preserves and a few salt fish.
The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992
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When she came breathlessly into that beef-stew and paper-napkin restaurant at noon, Mother already had something of the busy, unself-conscious look of the woman who can compete with men.
The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918
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There were three big iron pots, one filled with beef-stew, one with boiled rice, and one with boiled peas; there was a big demijohn of rum (all along the trenches which the Spaniards held were empty wine and liquor bottles); there were a number of loaves of rice-bread; and there were even some small cans of preserves and a few salt fish.
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There were three big iron pots, one filled with beef-stew, one with boiled rice, and one with boiled peas; there was a big demijohn of rum (all along the trenches which the Spaniards held were empty wine and liquor bottles); there were a number of loaves of rice-bread; and there were even some small cans of preserves and a few salt fish.
The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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You can make oyster-soup without oysters, turtle-soup without turtles, coffee-cake without coffee, but you can't make beef-stew without potatoes and onions.
Options O. Henry 1886
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One hot, savory beef-stew for supper, a night's good sleep, and she would be fit in the morning to apply again for the tasks of Hercules, Joan of Arc, Una, Job, and Little-Red-Riding-Hood.
Options O. Henry 1886
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Now, what kind of a beef-stew can you make out of simply beef?
Options O. Henry 1886
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Codex - Recent changes [en] MichaelH 2010
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