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  • How Van Leon had contrived to make the acquaintance of Prince Fernand of Ilmenheim I never precisely learnt; but the young Brazilian -- like all nouveaux riches of his breed -- was inordinately proud of the occasional notice taken of him by his noble fellow-guest at the Hotel d'Or.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • His half-sister Anne married Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham, and Lord Hatton was therefore uncle to his fellow-guest, Mr. Finch.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • It was no surprise to Lily to find that he had been selected as her only fellow-guest.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • It was no surprise to Lily to find that he had been selected as her only fellow-guest.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • It was no surprise to Lily to find that he had been selected as her only fellow-guest.

    The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

  • A meaning look was interchanged between the innkeeper and his fellow-guest.

    International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various

  • A fellow-guest at the hotel came to dinner one evening with a young French officer, a very handsome, alert and gallant fellow, whom I got to know intimately afterwards.

    Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

  • If he were here, knowing that she was to be his fellow-guest, surely he could not hate her so badly!

    The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

  • "Fancy!" exclaimed Miss Webster, a fellow-guest, and a young lady whom, by the way, Nan regarded with a good deal of disdain, because she seemed what John Gardiner called "girly-girly," and was flirtatious.

    The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann

  • There was the occasion on which Mrs. Rose, being pressed by a mischievous fellow-guest, had accepted a cigarette under the impression the other ladies were about to do likewise -- an impression quickly dispelled by the stony glare of her hostess and the ominous whispers of the other women.

    The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes

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