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Persiflage, of the sort that obtains among young things of the human kind, flew back and forth.
CHAPTER III 2010
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She also has served on the Editorial Board of a upcoming anthology by Persiflage Press, and is currently completing three books: Snapshots, a book of short form poetry; Under Mt. Alban, poems of Oaxaca, Mexico; and THE LAST TRUMPET – A poetic drama about the Great Flood of Orleans, circa 2005 A.D., including the activities of the Devil Himself as well as the famous Baron.
dorothy terry | toujours couture « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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They were the good-looking, whip-smart, thoroughly inept young guys 'n' gals for whom reconstituting the newly-invaded Iraq was a total freakin 'goof, a lark delivering both a paycheck and some desert cred they could wave in the face of Cardwell and Persiflage and all their other chums at the dinner parties back in Georgetown.
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Persiflage, which he secretly envied in others, on his own lips went off like damp fireworks.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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Persiflage, of the sort that obtains among young things of the human kind, flew back and forth.
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"Persiflage and all that aside, why don't you take a stab at politics?"
Captivating Mary Carstairs Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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Persiflage of this sort did not appear to be accomplishing anything.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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Persiflage, of the sort that obtains among young things of the human kind, flew back and forth.
The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London 1896
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"Of corse he will," said the hairy boy to the right of Whomsoever J. Opper, who afterwards became the father of a lad who grew up to be editor of the Persiflage column of the _Atlantic Monthly_.
Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873
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Persiflage, I suppose, even in ordinary life, is much less easy to practise with perfect success than a graver and less artificial mode of speaking, though, perhaps for that very reason, it is apt to be more sought after: the persiflage of a writer of another nation and of a past age is of necessity peculiarly difficult to realize and reproduce.
The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry 65 BC-8 BC Horace 1847
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