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  • She must have had good blood in her veins, for never was any duchess more perfectly, radically, unaffectedly nonchalante than she: a weak, transient amaze was all she knew of the sensation of wonder.

    Villette 2003

  • Palmerston with the excessively _nonchalante_ declaration, _it was not so, and it is not so_!

    The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

  • English woman would look proud, and a French woman nonchalante, an American lady looks grim; even the youngest and the prettiest can set their lips, and knit their brows, and look as hard and unsocial as their grandmothers.

    Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

  • His embarrassment was increased by the questions which Beauclerc so suddenly put to him; but he had _nonchalante_ impudence enough to brave it through, and he depended with good reason on Beauclerc's prepossession in his favour.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • _nonchalante_ than she: a weak, transient amaze was all she knew of the sensation of wonder.

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

  • I suppose you would like me, forsooth! to admire the _nonchalante_ manner of his posing at the time, "and turning like

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • N’importe,” continued she, with a nonchalante shrug of her shoulders; “it is impossible to guess.

    Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments 1821

  • When the motorcade with "Bush 88″ regalia stopped at the gates of fairgrounds, I tried to act nonchalante as I craned my neck to catch a glimpse of the man who coined the term" voodoo economics. "

    Hennessy's View 2009

  • When the motorcade with "Bush 88″ regalia stopped at the gates of fairgrounds, I tried to act nonchalante as I craned my neck to catch a glimpse of the man who coined the term" voodoo economics. "

    Hennessy's View 2009

  • When the motorcade with "Bush 88″ regalia stopped at the gates of fairgrounds, I tried to act nonchalante as I craned my neck to catch a glimpse of the man who coined the term" voodoo economics. "

    Hennessy's View 2009

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