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With downcast demurest eyes and hesitating speech, Saxon said:
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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Now that a woman apostles has just smiled the demurest of smiles and gracefully tiptoed out of history, we hear not a word.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Now that a woman apostles has just smiled the demurest of smiles and gracefully tiptoed out of history, we hear not a word.
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So how will the demurest of damsels fair against Communist China?
Forbes Faces Of The Week, Jan. 30 - Feb. 3, 2006Faces Of The Week, Jan. 30 - Feb. 3, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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So how will the demurest of damsels fair against Communist China?
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“I have conceived the part of Lucy,” she observed, with the demurest gravity.
No Name 2003
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Claims from the demurest maiden, I must sue and sue in vain.
Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus
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"From London -- but I'm not French, you know," was the retort, with the demurest of demure smiles.
The Heiress of Wyvern Court Emilie Searchfield
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Ellen was wearing her darkest, demurest clothes, in emphatic contrast to the ribbons and laces in which Brodnyx and Pedlinge usually went to the fair.
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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With downcast demurest eyes and hesitating speech, Saxon said:
Chapter 22 1913
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