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General Carey handles the pen well enough; not so his gallant brother-soldier.
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But in Cesena the gallant Pedro Ramires lay in wait for them.
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But they had their rivals in the gallant givers of the fete.
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In distant Connecticut, gallant old General Putnam heard the news while plowing.
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Many a gallant ship has found its grave in northern ice-clad waters.
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Real swell customer, great credit history, just a screwup down in records.
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Therefore, the first commandment for technologists is: Design technologies to swell happiness.
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The ship was still rolling heavily in the swell after the gale.
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What surprised me, however, was the huge swell of support for Kick-Ass.
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Squire must be thinking of that right now in this deeper swell.
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Instead of our putting the dude in jail he may jug us.
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If the answer is yes, then you know that dude is solid.
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Had the dude left the horse alone all might have gone well.
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From the savage who knew nothing to the dude who know less.
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Everybody liked him, he was always happy, a good dude, you know?
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Which was just dandy keeno fine as far as she was concerned.
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She was sure she'd wake up the following morning feeling peachy dandy.
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In areas where there's no pesticides, they'll turn out fine and dandy.
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Ye look right a dandy in blue silk doublet and slit pantaloons.
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The dandy of the clubs had become a perambulating mass of rags.
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Kate's father and Fiona's beau are outside waiting to take them home.
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But that nice young man, he said you had a beau yourself.
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Simplicity of arrangement is always the beau ideal of the mechanical engineer.
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Bostwick met the proud old beau at the corner of the street.
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He is the beau of the occasion, and she is the belle.
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The sheik has finished his prayer in the silence of his chamber.
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Who but the sheik could of right say to the caravan, Halt!
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The sheik and the ulemas must be rescued, cost what it might.
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When the Mahdists rode up the sheik rose and saluted their commander.
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And, in fact, Phyllis gave a cool nod to her sheik friend.
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He says he looks a fop in it, but he is wrong.
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During this short dialogue, the ladies had gone on with the fop.
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The fop ran behind a tree, to be safe from the fracas.
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The fop of fields is no better than his brother of Broadway.
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You think of nothing but eating, and drinking, and playing the fop.
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And it proved an irresistible lure to the fashionplate princess.
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And let it go, for the sake of that blond-haired, deer-eyed, fashionplate-
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What in the name of wonder, are you doing with a fashionplate?
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She looks like a fashionplate lady standing on the top of Mont Blanc.
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They said they thought you were a regular fashionplate.
Usage of clotheshorse in English
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American socialite-cum-reality-TV-star-cum-clotheshorse Olivia Butterfield Palermo's website is an exercise in fashion-fixated egomania.
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It was less than Miller owned, and he was hardly a clotheshorse.
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I need something to hang things on in front of the fire, a clotheshorse-comealong-
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Being a clotheshorse was one of her worst vices.
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Rather a clever ruse, that of the clotheshorse.
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Lucy was a clotheshorse from the word go.
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The clotheshorse owned a six-figure wardrobe.
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I wasn't a clotheshorse or anything, plus Mom and I never had the funds to bloat our wardrobes.
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That Ricardo was a clotheshorse, had expensive taste, and not much company unless he wiped down his house regularly.
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Tidy away the clotheshorse and take laundry outside where the longer hours of daylight and the gus(...)
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From Allan Prime dead in the Farnesina to some pretty little clotheshorse choking for life from a poisoned apple.
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The treadmill in the spare room is currently serving as a clotheshorse and the intention is to keep it that way.
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Every time I sit next to David Ginola, I feel intensely jealous, because he is the most incredible clotheshorse and always looks gorgeous.
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Paine was also no clotheshorse; his outfit consisted of a simple gray shirt, well-used leather waistcoat, dark brown trousers, gray leggings, and brown boots.
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The Captain writes that he is thirsting for gore and glory, and that he has learned to ride anything from a clotheshorse to a nightmare.
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Capable musical clotheshorse that he is, Jonas barely registers as much of a presence on many of these breezy, instantly forgettable pieces of rhythmic fluff.