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Extremely friendly and loaded me up with samples galore including the beurre exquise - divine.

White Floral Queen, Part One – Frederic Malle Carnal Flower Marina Geigert 2008

VVhich immence and woonderfull forme, with a maruelous and exquise Symmetrie and due proportion mounting vp laboursomly foote by foote, conteyned 1410. degrees or steppes, taking away 10. degrees to make vp the head and gracilament of the Pyramides in whose place was set a huge Cube or foure square stone of forme like a dye, sound and firme of a monstrous thicknesse and incredible weight to bee carryed so high.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Conservez, ma chere Margot, un bon souvenir de ce petit travail qui a du vous amuser beaucoup et qui nous a reunis dans les meilleurs sentiments du monde; continuons nous cette sympathie que je trouve moi tout a fait exquise -- et croyez qu'en la continuant de votre cote, vous serez mille fois plus que quitte envers votre tres devoue

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

Je suppose que je suis tres bien ici; c'est-a-dire j'ai tout ce que j'aime materiellement: le bon air, la belle nature, un petit appartement d'une propriete vraiment exquise, une belle riviere tout a cote, et des canots a ma disposition.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896

The last grace and refinements of chivalric society blossom in the poetry of CHARLES D'ORLÉANS, "la grâce exquise des choses frêles."

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

Je suppose que je suis très bien ici; c'est-à-dire j'ai tout ce que j'aime matériellement: le bon air, la belle nature, un petit appartement d'une propriété vraiment exquise, une belle rivière tout à côté, et des canots à ma disposition.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864

Antiquity (Réflexions sur l'Histoire, p. 211), may, with a violent seizure of ecstacy, fall, like a genuine Frenchman, into a fit of enthusiasm over the description, as "exquisite in delicacy and elegance" ( "tout y est décrit dans une délicatesse et dans une élégance exquise" says he), of the lascivious dancing of Messalina and her wanton crew of Terpsichorean revellers when counterfeiting the passions and actions of the phrenzied women-worshippers of

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

But I must dress to go to Dr. Hope's, who makes _chère exquise_, and does not understand being kept late.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

We dined at Mr. and Mrs. Strange, _chère exquise_ I suppose.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

It wasn't until I discovered books on Surrealism lurking in the dark corners of my high school library (changed me forever) that I found that the Surrealists had indulged in the same game; and had codified it and given it a name, "le cadavre exquise", or "the exquisite corpse".

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