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- adverb In a
Sapphic way.
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Examples
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Once she decides that Henry's realistic prose hasn't done her proudly, she turns sapphically to Anaïs, the prose poetess, her next best shot at the Dostoevskian immortality she envisions as the only acceptable reward for a life of pain.
Archive 2008-03-09 2008
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Once she decides that Henry's realistic prose hasn't done her proudly, she turns sapphically to Anaïs, the prose poetess, her next best shot at the Dostoevskian immortality she envisions as the only acceptable reward for a life of pain.
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N.B. If Canning in his Eton days immortalised sapphically a knifegrinder, why shouldn't a young Carthusian similarly celebrate his gingham?
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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Oakland elects sapphically include gal to City Council.
SFist 2008
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This inevitably gets a biopic laugh, though it is infinitely less funny than the scene in the 1981 film Chanel Solitaire when the name comes to her while sapphically embracing the rich Parisian Misia Sert, who comments: "Why nart?
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While the apparent goal of breeding a race of Ilsa-like dominatrix Amazons to serve in the front ranks of the Reich’s push for world domination remains unfulfilled, the tests do allow for a few extended, sapphically oriented S&M scenes.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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