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To prevent, therefore, giving offence to their customers by any such disappointment, it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
of us, under the easy circumstance of our own weakness, remains another way most easily to express ourselves for the purpose of eliminating from the world the cruelty that is practised by some few of us, for the entertainment of the rest of us, on the trained animals, who, after all, are only lesser animals than we on the round world's surface.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
You must not look for any dancing or festivity or entertainment of guests, for our gala times are still in the air.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
 
 
 
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