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  • Bluntness, Ma’am,’ returned the Major, ‘has ever been the characteristic of the Bagstock breed.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • Bluntness: I am no longer confident we will be getting the apartment.

    waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2005

  • Magnitude and Figure, Roughness and Smoothness, and, moreover, the Sharpness and Bluntness found in solid bodies, are percepts common to all the senses, or if not to all, at least to Sight and Touch.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

  • Magnitude and Figure, Roughness and Smoothness, and, moreover, the Sharpness and Bluntness found in solid bodies, are percepts common to all the senses, or if not to all, at least to Sight and Touch.

    On Sense and the Sensible 2002

  • Simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous Bluntness giveth it Being.

    An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

  • 'Bluntness, Ma'am,' returned the Major, 'has ever been the characteristic of the Bagstock breed.

    Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

  • Bluntness of Saggitarius? how compared to Mars or the Sun for the other "Fire" signs? and how different? has Jupiter always "Ruled" Saggitarius? please explain Additional Details also, why and how is Jupiter associated with "Learning" and

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Bluntness and expediency were not only a coping mechanism, but a way to run an efficient family.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • Bluntness (or honesty in the wrong time and place) can feel like a physical shock, a physical blow to the body.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

  • Post subject: Bluntness and honesty vs. politeness and white lies

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

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