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Examples
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So, with a gay and quipsome wave of the hand, in which Ralph was conscious of some faint resemblance to her grandmother, she called to him:
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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"Thou likest thy food well enough thyself, quipsome one," muttered Ralf.
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"Thou likest thy food well enough thyself, quipsome one," muttered
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"Out on thee with thy honied phrases, thy quipsome lilting rhymes!
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Or is it only that the lad is thy very marrow, quipsome one? "
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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But the King, with some pleasure in teasing, and some of the enjoyment of a schoolboy at a break in his tasks, called out, "Nay, come hither, quipsome one!
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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But the King, with some pleasure in teasing, and some of the enjoyment of a schoolboy at a break in his tasks, called out, "Nay, come hither, quipsome one!
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Or is it only that the lad is thy very marrow, quipsome one? "
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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