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It was a quaint conceit, apart from, untouched by any previous experience.
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Elsie as the Jonah of the ship was a quaint conceit.
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At this quaint conceit the three girls all giggled again.
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The jovial captain laughed at the quaint conceit.
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He chuckled softly at his own quaint conceit, and at that his spirits began to rise again.
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And, 'tis a quaint conceit, perchance-
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I remember chuckling to myself over this quaint conceit; I was to learn later that it came unpleasantly near the truth.
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I smiled at the quaint conceit of the little woman, which lost its irreverence towards God in its reverence for His handiwork.
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The angel laughed at the honeysuckle's quaint conceit, but made no reply, for yonder he saw a purple aster he fain would question.
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Her companions laughed at this quaint conceit, and, filled with confusion at being overheard, she climbed higher up the slope and was lost to sight.
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It is a clever book, full of quaint conceits and deep meditation.
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They are full of quaint conceits, and running over with good humour and good nature.
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Their verses are much in the style of our Cowley-trivial points, monstrous metaphors, and quaint conceits.
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Opus 19 is a group of "Wonder Songs," which interpret Oliver Herford's quaint conceits capitally.
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The usual stiffness of a first introduction was speedily broken down by the quaint conceits of the count.
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Our prose had at length worked itself clear from those quaint conceits which still deformed almost every metrical composition.
