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V. Kinzer, a fine-dressed and handsome cavalry captain, whom all the ladies (as they do at the present day), fell in love with.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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Would fire a fine-dressed modern MAUDLIN with scorn,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various
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He raised it to his shoulder and pulled down on a fine-dressed cavalry officer, and I saw that Yankee tumble.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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About the time I was half through my discourse, two very fine-dressed young men marched into the congregation with loaded horsewhips, and hats on, and rose up and stood in the midst of the ladies, and began to laugh and talk.
Great Fortunes and How They Were Made McCabe, Jr James D 1887
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About the time I was half through my discourse, two very fine-dressed young men marched into the congregation with loaded horsewhips, and hats on, and rose up and stood in the midst of the ladies, and began to laugh and talk.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862
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Soon after this I was informed, that a fine-dressed, little black-eyed man was arrived in a bark from Italy.
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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Be cautiously upon your guard against the infinite number of fine-dressed and fine-spoken 'chevaliers d'industrie' and
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Be cautiously upon your guard against the infinite number of fine-dressed and fine-spoken 'chevaliers d'industrie' and
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Be cautiously upon your guard against the infinite number of fine-dressed and fine-spoken chevaliers d’industrie and avanturiers which swarm at Paris: and keep everybody civilly at arm’s length, of whose real character or rank you are not previously informed.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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"We were in the main dining-room, and there was a fine-dressed crowd there, all talking loud and enjoyable about the two St. Louis topics, the water supply and the colour line.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
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