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"ref": "1864, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 12, page 220",
"text": "Her appearance, her dress, her manners; what they were pleased to term her \"stand-offishness\"; her shortcomings as a housekeeper; her ignorance in the matter of mending under-linen; her novel-reading and piano- playing — all these had been toothsome morsels, far more enjoyable than the heavy pies, the thick chops, and the sardines which figured in that horrible Mesopotamian meal known as a \"thick tea;\" and had been picked to the very bone.",
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"ref": "1868, Shirley Brooks, Sooner Or Later, page 344",
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"ref": "1869, Wrecked in port, page 42",
"text": "\"It's unnatural in a gell like Marian Ashurst to think so much o' money and What it brings,\" would be a frequent remark at one of those private Helmingham institutions* known as \"thick teas.\"",
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"ref": "1874, Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873",
"text": "This was used both at meal-times and for a reading room, breakfasts with tea, dinners, whereat roast-beef and plum-pudding were frequent visitors, \"thick teas,\" and suppers of beer and cheese, supplying the bodily, as a supply of English newspapers satisfied the mental appetites of the inmates.",
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"ref": "1886, Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did Next, page 130",
"text": "The month's housekeeping wound up that night with a \"thick tea\" in honor of Lieutenant Worthington's arrival, which taxed all the resources of the little establishment. ... fresh eggs for an omelette, and chickens' breasts smothered in cream ...",
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"ref": "1890, Bazaar Exchange and Mart, and Journal of the Household",
"text": "So many informal meals are required during the summer months, whether as light refreshments at tennis parties, or more substantial \"thick teas” and “ early suppers,” that a constant change of sweet dishes is desirable.",
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"ref": "1966, National Geographic - Volume 129, page 471",
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"ref": "2003, Victoria Abbott Riccardi, Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto, page 190",
"text": "While David made thick tea and then thin tea for his guests, we cleaned up, whispering and washing as quietly as possible to avoid being heard through the panel.",
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"ref": "2006, Colin Wilson, The murder casebook, page 83",
"text": "I sat silent, eating bread-and-butter and drinking good hot thick tea from an even thicker teacup.",
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"ref": "2010, Kaeko Chiba, Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony",
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"text": "This was used both at meal-times and for a reading room, breakfasts with tea, dinners, whereat roast-beef and plum-pudding were frequent visitors, \"thick teas,\" and suppers of beer and cheese, supplying the bodily, as a supply of English newspapers satisfied the mental appetites of the inmates.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1886, Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did Next, page 130",
"text": "The month's housekeeping wound up that night with a \"thick tea\" in honor of Lieutenant Worthington's arrival, which taxed all the resources of the little establishment. ... fresh eggs for an omelette, and chickens' breasts smothered in cream ...",
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},
{
"ref": "1890, Bazaar Exchange and Mart, and Journal of the Household",
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"ref": "2003, Victoria Abbott Riccardi, Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto, page 190",
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