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Maybe she would qualify as a nun-like person, but only so far.
Naked Cruelty Colleen McCullough 2010
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"The correct word is ignored," says Kathleen Carpenter, a 60-year-old Chicagoan who says she would spend more on apparel if so many choices didn't range from "ridiculous to nun-like."
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In the pictures, she was this sort of wispy floating nun-like ghost-woman.
Archive 2008-09-01 a. fortis 2008
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I love me some implacable nun-like women with whips.
Archive 2008-03-01 Flavia 2008
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In the pictures, she was this sort of wispy floating nun-like ghost-woman.
The WritingYA Weblog: The Return of Holden Caulfield! a. fortis 2008
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I am guessing that Derek honestly thinks that women who wear burqas and niqabs out on the streets of Britain (or NZ) are expressing a nun-like modesty and devotion to their diety rather than raw aggression.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I love me some implacable nun-like women with whips.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, nun-like cap, tied under the chin.
Les Miserables 2008
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I love me some implacable nun-like women with whips.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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It is astonishing what ease and courage their little phrases of flippancy had given me; the idea by which I had been awed was that the youthful beings before me, with their dark nun-like robes and softly braided hair, were a kind of half-angels.
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