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Examples
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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_nonchalante_ than she: a weak, transient amaze was all she knew of the sensation of wonder.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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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
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N’importe,” continued she, with a nonchalante shrug of her shoulders; “it is impossible to guess.
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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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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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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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