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• It was his foible, as much as "gentility nonsense" was theirs, to find pleasure in the role of the mysterious stranger, who by a word could change a disdainful gypsy into a fawning, awe- stricken slave. —  The Life of George Borrow
• My only foible was the pseudo-heartbreaking piano music that accompanied his audition as well as a HSM song when he got through. —  All About My Movies.
• Our impersonation of a nasty sore throat "off" is still the talk of China ONE WAY WITH THEM Leeson is the best of living creatures (as so many of us are), but he has one detestable foible--he always wants to read something aloud. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914
• This extended to a "declining love" between him and the Prince, whose foible was a horror of growing corpulent, and whom Brummell therefore denominated "Big Ben," the nickname of a gigantic porter at Carlton House; adding the sting of calling Mrs Fitzherbert Benina. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• He has one foible, an excessive inflammability of temper, but he feels it when it comes on, and has resolution enough to suppress it, and to remain silent till it passes over I send you, by Colonel Franks, your pocket telescope, walking stick and chemical box. —  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)

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