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  • French, because the word 'effleurer' is an exquisite word).

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • He refers more lightly and frequently to "those charming talks of ours about our Churches"; he thinks they both know how to effleurer the surface of theology without getting drowned in it.

    Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

  • Churches "; he thinks they both know how to effleurer the surface of theology without getting drowned in it.

    Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake William Tuckwell 1874

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