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When he sees der appetite he will catch it und come to preak-fast.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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You are likewise to abstain from beans, from the preak, by some called the polyp, as also from coleworts, cabbage, and all other such like windy victuals, which may endanger the troubling of your brains and the dimming or casting a kind of mist over your animal spirits.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You are likewise to abstain from beans, from the preak, by some called the polyp, as also from coleworts, cabbage, and all other such like windy victuals, which may endanger the troubling of your brains and the dimming or casting a kind of mist over your animal spirits.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If I could preak zis iron door zat bar me from you and draw you close to me, Corinne, vere you could feel ze quick beat zat say, 'lofe! lofe! lofe!'
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg
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"Ha! He vants dot you shouldt altogedder preak your neck, ain't it?" put in Mr. Switzer.
The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real Laura Lee Hope
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When he sees der appetite he will catch it und come to preak-fast.
The Unexpected 1907
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When he sees der appetite he will catch it und come to preak-fast.
THE UNEXPECTED 1906
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"Makes you feel like you vos going to preak abard alretty kvick!"
The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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I gannot go here, or I gannot go dere, but some one shall send it to some newsbaber, as how Misder Chorge Vreder-ick Handel did go somedimes last week in a votderman's wherry, to preak his fastd wid Misder Zac.
The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878
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It is very pold of me to gome to preak my fastd wid you uninvided; and I have brought along wid me a nodable abbetite; for the wader of old Fader Dems is it not a fine pracer of the stomach? '
The Great German Composers Ferris, George T 1878
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