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  • At best, all we ever see of debonnair detective Charles Townsend on 'Charlie's Angels' is the back of his head as he gets a massage, usually only his arm.

    A TOWNSEND FAMILY REUNION Toby O'B 2010

  • By the beauty that containeth all things bright and debonnair;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Instead of solving murders in his debonnair style among a bevy of famous guest stars, Burke was now a spy working for "The Man".

    SLIDING WITH AMOS BURKE Toby O'B 2004

  • Instead of solving murders in his debonnair style among a bevy of famous guest stars, Burke was now a spy working for "The Man".

    Archive 2004-11-07 Toby O'B 2004

  • Originally gay and debonnair, his native character had been so overlaid that when he first returned to Scotland in 1755 his own mother could not recognise him until he

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • He embraced her tenderly, and went out with that _debonnair_ grace which she had so loved.

    Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch

  • The features are often Irish, the gait jaunty or resolutely brisk, but neither "buxom, blithe, nor debonnair," complexion wan, expression pensive, and the entire propriety of the toilette disarranged and _degagée_.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 Various

  • The French, except for a certain outward arrogance, were, on the whole, decent administrators, debonnair people.

    Quebec Old and New 1944

  • And Clayton had noticed, with a thrill of sympathy, how wistfully Graham eyed the debonnair young Scot by adoption, and how Buckham had hovered over him, filling his plate and his glass.

    Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • The distance had already been paced and marked out, and now each man took his ground -- Sir Jasper, still in his greatcoat, his hat over his eyes, his neckerchief loose and dangling, one hand in his pocket, the other grasping his weapon; his antagonist, on the contrary, jaunty and debonnair, a dandy from the crown of his hat to the soles of his shining boots.

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

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