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Examples
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He woke and found himself there, and asked no questions, and he was tacking about on this daily though perilous voyage, when, from his station at the coffee-stall, Huxter spied him.
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He had a bundle of newspapers under one arm and his other hand was in his pocket rattling some coppers together while he bargained with the coffee-stall keeper over a pie.
Madame Midas 2003
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When he had reached Camden Town railway-station he was attracted by a coffee-stall; a draught of the steaming liquid, no matter its quality, would help his blood to circulate.
New Grub Street 2003
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The coffee-stall had disappeared; the traffic of the great highway was growing uproarious.
New Grub Street 2003
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At the market, when the cartman has finished arranging his vegetables, he goes to a coffee-stall.
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No such figure as his had been seen on any of the roads leading from the hotel, either by the early milkman, or by the belated coffee-stall keeper, or night cabman.
Master of His Fate J. Mclaren Cobban
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[Footnote D: Poundbury, Dorchester, the drill ground.] [Footnote E: The colonel's wife, who opened a room with a coffee-stall, and entertainments for the men off drill.]
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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King's coffee-house was nothing more than a humble shed, an early representative of the peripatetic coffee-stall which is still a common sight of London streets in the early morning.
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My next move was to disinter Kosinski, whom I felt pretty certain of finding at a certain coffee-stall where, at that advanced hour, he was in the habit of making his one and only diurnal, or rather nocturnal repast.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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This coffee-stall was situated at the corner of Tottenham Court Road and a side street, and there, sure enough, stood Kosinski, munching sardines on toast, and buns, and drinking coffee, surrounded by a motley group of cabmen and loose women.
A Girl Among the Anarchists Isabel Meredith
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