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Little half-beaten pockets of gentility and caste lurking here and there, dispersed and chetif, as Annette would say; but nothing ever again firm and coherent to look up to.

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The critical Bassompierre called it a "_chetif chateau_," and

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

Little half-beaten pockets of gentility and caste lurking here and there, dispersed and chetif, as Annette would say; but nothing ever again firm and coherent to look up to.

The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

Little half-beaten pockets of gentility and caste lurking here and there, dispersed and chetif, as Annette would say; but nothing ever again firm and coherent to look up to.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Little half-beaten pockets of gentility and caste lurking here and there, dispersed and chetif, as Annette would say; but nothing ever again firm and coherent to look up to.

The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

Bartholomew Night, when Versailles, as Bassompierre writes of it, was a chetif chateau.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

They must appear chetif enough to the author of the great work on South America.

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