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He, rough in dress and manners and regarding "dudishness" as unfailing proof of weak-mindedness, had set down the fashionable Arthur, with his Harvard accent and his ignorance of affairs, as an unmitigated ass.
The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889
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Among these self-respecting Americanized families there was occasionally seen a sprinkling of those who disdained any approach to dudishness, or had not yet grasped it as anything that could possibly pertain to themselves, and these -- mostly new importations from Poland or
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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Without any touch of dudishness he gave the impression of having "just stepped out of a bandbox."
The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892
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Put him into a shad-bellied drab and he would still have retained traces of dudishness; a Chatham street outfit could hardly have unduded him.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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Without any touch of dudishness he gave the impression of having "just stepped out of a bandbox."
The Story of My Life — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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Without any touch of dudishness he gave the impression of having "just stepped out of a bandbox."
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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Without any touch of dudishness he gave the impression of having "just stepped out of a bandbox."
The Story of My Life — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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