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Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.
Lenn Thompson 2009
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Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.
Tasting Notes 2009
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Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
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Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.
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“Oscar Wilde,” I remarked casually, “is a great friend of mine,” but the super-subtle Italian was already warned.
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So the woman is not being super-subtle, just plain ignorant.
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They reported it you can see that first story here, with a credit at the end to ‘S’, my super-subtle pseudonym.
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At least this is no super-subtle modernist divine dealing out old coins surreptitiously stamped with a new image and superscription, but a plain blunt heretic who knows his mind (or, rather, mood).
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various
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Christy made one or two super-subtle remarks which no one understood.
The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939
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There has been a great deal of super-subtle dividing of intentions into actual, virtual, habitual, and interpretative; but if you are going to take your stand on logic you must be ready to face a logical conclusion.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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