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  • I'm actually sick of all these moonfaces and their goddamn dreams.

    Fragile: Contains Dreams. Please Do Not Bend, Fold, or Crush. Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • I love how it's writers who are the moonfaces, who need to work harder, who need to be realistic.

    Fragile: Contains Dreams. Please Do Not Bend, Fold, or Crush. Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • He blandly received their caresses; took their coaxing and cajolery as matters of course; and surveyed the beauties of his time as the Caliph the moonfaces of his harem.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • When I walk out, middle-aged, but still sprightly, and still, if the truth must be told, with an idiot dream in my heart of some romantic encounter, I look at the passers-by, say in Sloane Street, and then I begin to imagine moonfaces more alluring than any I see in that thoroughfare.

    More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

  • He blandly received their caresses; took their coaxing and cajolery as matters of course; and surveyed the beauties of his time as the Caliph the moonfaces of his harem.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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