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The one held by the slave-holding planter-aristocracy cavalier's has been likened to that of Ayn Rand, though it also had similarities with Sparta.
300 and Freedom, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nonetheless, the cavalier's pose is so aggressively striking that it is quite as effective compositionally as the arrangement of three figures in Leibl's painting.
NATURALISM IN ART FRITZ NOVOTNY 1968
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One of them swept off his plain, ugly cap in a gesture that made it seem a cavalier's plumed chapeau.
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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He had begun to take his cavalier's skills for granted, but was rather surprised at the overflow of his affection for this Papillon.
Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953
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With equal coolness and courtesy he met the cavalier's obeisance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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"Jack Horner" and "Jack the Giant Killer" appeared finer than anything in Shakespeare; but this much may be said for "Jack Horner," the cavalier's song of derision at the straight-laced Puritan, that it soon lost its political signification, gradually becoming used as a mark of respect.
A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green
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This hard sentence was put in execution immediately upon the spot, to the great regret of all the spectators; nay, I observed by the cavalier's countenance, that he was moved with pity as much as the rest.
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The cavalier's garments are rent and blood-stained, and there is a bloody handkerchief binding his brow and telling how, when his house was surprised and his dependents slaughtered, he himself fought till he was struck down, bound and overpowered.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Englishwoman, who was resting the tips of her white gloved fingers on her cavalier's arm.
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Standing where she had leaped at the cavalier's kiss, her eyes wide, her lips apart, was Maren Le Moyne.
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