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The 35-year-old queen of "Tollywood," southern India's Tamil-language film industry, is breakfasting on croissants and strawberry jam with her three-year-old daughter on the executive floor of a five-star hotel in downtown Madras.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's not down yet, sir; he is breakfasting in his dressing-room.

From The Uttermost Farthing by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

Mrs. Riis, Ribe, Denmark: Your son is breakfasting with us.

From Is There a Santa Claus? by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

He had enjoyed his stay at the Hermitage, and now he regarded the eternal hills with the comfortable affection of a healthy man who is breakfasting well.

From Indiscretions of Archie by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

One day he is breakfasting with the Prussian Ambassador, "with princes and members of Parliament, I was the star of the morning," he writes to his wife.

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George