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Unbeautiful and middle-aged, unprincipled and not intellectual, vain, unreposeful, and with a complexion that could look greasy, she offered her one flower, liberty.
A Different Stripe: 2010
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Unbeautiful and middle-aged, unprincipled and not intellectual, vain, unreposeful, and with a complexion that could look greasy, she offered her one flower, liberty.
"One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to." 2010
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Unbeautiful and middle-aged, unprincipled and not intellectual, vain, unreposeful, and with a complexion that could look greasy, she offered her one flower, liberty.
Commonplace 2010
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"Oh, Hadria, how _could_ you?" cried Mrs. Gordon, coming up in her elaborate toilette, which expressed almost as much of the character of its wearer as was indicated by her thin, chattering tones, and unreposeful manner.
The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
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At heart something of a Puritan, the straight-backed chairs and unreposeful sofa, the secretary with its diamond-paned doors and glass knobs, the quaint old jardinières brought from China a century ago, pleased her fancy.
Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters Mary Finley Leonard
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Indeed, when you look longer at it, you begin to doubt whether there is any repose in it at all, -- whether it is not the most unreposeful thought ever put into architectural form.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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In French the story is too confused and chaotic and unreposeful and ungrammatical and insane; consequently it could only cause grief and sickness -- it could not kill.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872
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