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They displayed their wares for an hour with much dexterous flattery and persuasiveness, but Mrs. Link was untemptable, and I was only tempted into buying a handkerchief to keep the sun off.
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Debby was no Edgeworth heroine, preternaturally prudent, wise, and untemptable; she had a fine crop of piques, vanities, and dislikes growing up under this new style of cultivation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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In these days when the school has shrunk to Ezra Pound and his followers, vaunting their superiority to the public, "whose virgin stupidity is untemptable," [Footnote: Ezra Pound, _Tensone. _] it is easy to dismiss the men and their verse thus lightly.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins
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They are thoroughly respectable servants with excellent manners and untemptable honesty, for, living in a little cottage, I have left money, jewellery, and clothes in unlocked drawers, and have lost nothing all the summer, which is
My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914
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They displayed their wares for an hour with much dexterous flattery and persuasiveness, but Mrs. Link was untemptable, and I was only tempted into buying a handkerchief to keep the sun off.
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