Citations:postprandial

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English citations of postprandial

  • 1948, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence
    The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.
  • 2009, Marie Pierce Weber, Marooned In Africa
    Jon replied, "We were just taking a postprandial stroll. We didn't realize the cottage was here. We beg your pardon."
  • 2014 May 6, Nicholas Shakespeare, “Twin Tracks by Roger Bannister”, in The Daily Telegraph[1]:
    Intimate, discreet and modestly quite proud of itself, it [the book] has the tone of the postprandial speech that Bannister gave at Pembroke College to 120 of his friends, looking over his life, like the portrait on the panelled walls of himself as Master.