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At the bottom was a small corrie, with six houses-though "house" was an overdignified word for the rude structures crouched beneath the larch trees there.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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The dance over, their talk was interrupted by an excited and rather overdignified youth with a hurt look in his young worshipping eyes, who stiffly reminded Miss Langworthy that she had cut his dance.
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912
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