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Sweet and dainty were the damsels, alike in raiment and in face.
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And a jade platter of dainty food calls for a million coins.
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It ripples in dainty dance, or tumbles down in cascades of joy.
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In the open doorway she shone, looking the smallest of dainty things.
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He swung the dainty mite up in his arms and kissed her.
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He saw Mzu, her small figure unmistakable in its prim business suit.
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The papers extended across the hall and into a prim, fleckless parlor.
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The house does not look so prim as it used to do.
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The small, prim, stylish mother looked quite regal in her aristocratic rage.
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There was a noticeable stiffening of the prim figure of Mrs. Gaston.
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The problem was, he'd never managed to master the perfect, mincing walk.
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Beside the Bishop rode the Prior of Emmet upon a mincing palfrey.
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One officer superintended the mincing, another exercised a general supervision over all.
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He spoke with the clipped, mincing utterance of the typical Prussian officer.
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There was a doubting, almost a resentful, tone in the mincing voice.
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You're a brave lass for all your niminy-piminy lingo.
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"Rawchester!" exclaimed Lady Montfort, "what, 'Niminy-Piminy'?"
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"I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!"
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Some of the shops were just a bit twee, I must admit.
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Think of it as positivity without the twee platitudes and motivational quotes.
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Auckland's queen bees of twee-pop haven't played much around these parts lately.
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There was always this air of twee artifice pushing in on everything.
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With the twee, self-congratulatory filters it looked -well, twee and self-congratulatory
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You either think she's a quiet genius or a sickeningly twee menace.
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Without the twee, self-congratulatory filters, it looked like a photo of garbage.
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Some will find his boyish voice twee; his songs too tender.
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It can appear twee and cliched and almost unbelievably Pebble Mill.
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Plus Overlooks a river Minus The arched window frames are twee
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It seems that the twee did inherit the Earth after all.
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By 1976, the Rollers were twee and trite, yesterday's teen icons.
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Take two symbols of America: the twee clapboard house and the Wal-Mart style hangar.
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The approach is occasionally twee but rarely less than comprehensive.
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When restaurants dial up the twee they tend to dial down the food ambition.
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Sure, The Gathering is in itself slightly cynical and twee.