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They prided themselves in being what they called femmes fatales, women who deliberately inflicted emotional pain on their lovers.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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They prided themselves in being what they called femmes fatales, women who deliberately inflicted emotional pain on their lovers.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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They prided themselves in being what they called femmes fatales, women who deliberately inflicted emotional pain on their lovers.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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They prided themselves in being what they called femmes fatales, women who deliberately inflicted emotional pain on their lovers.
Lightning Strikes V.C. ANDREWS® 2000
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The theme, extremely popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was portrayed through the cycles entitled femmes fortes, as exemplified in the engraving by Hans Burgkmair the Elder (1473 – 1531) conceived as a cycle of nine “women worthies” comprising three good pagans, three good Jews (Esther, Judith and Jael), and three good Christians, paralleled to a comparable cycle of male heroes (ca. 1519).
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On leaving the Queen's bedchamber, these ladies called their femmes de chambre, and all four remained sitting together against her Majesty's bedroom door.
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On leaving the Queen's bedchamber, these ladies called their femmes de chambre, and all four remained sitting together against her Majesty's bedroom door.
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On leaving the Queen's bedchamber, these ladies called their femmes de chambre, and all four remained sitting together against her Majesty's bedroom door.
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Indeed, knowing "femmes" are quite as prone to haze as the cadets, and most unmercifully cut the unfortunate plebe.
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Indeed, knowing "femmes" are quite as prone to haze as the cadets, and most unmercifully cut the unfortunate plebe.
Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point Flipper, Henry O 1878
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