Example Sentences

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All the servants in the meantime, have been breakfasting below.

From Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

And to think that I might have been breakfasting at my club with the morning paper propped against the coffee-pot, in a silent room in the quiet of the city.

From Frenzied Fiction by Leacock, Stephen

Mademoiselle, we have been breakfasting together; we had a gay time of it, like men of spirit.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

But you look altogether too comfortable here, you and Mrs. Bywank!—As for me, I have been breakfasting with two bears, and had nearly forgotten how civilization acts.'

From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan