chiccory
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chiccories
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In such processes as the roasting of coffee, chiccory, grain, etc., a diffused heat is necessary, but of much greater intensity than can be obtained with economy from heated air.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various
Pessimism is not reason but a surrogate of reason; therefore, a cheat, such as the merchant who sells chiccory for coffee.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
In the first place, then, the French coffee is coffee, and not chiccory, or rye, or beans, or peas.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
Bread and coffee, chiefly chiccory, make one meal; bread alone is the staple of the others, with a bit of meat for Sunday.
From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell
To continue their experiments, they shut up in other boxes eggs, chiccory, lobsters, a hotchpotch of fish, and a soup!—and they applauded themselves like M. Appert, "on having fixed the seasons."
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
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