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Boufflers among them with I do not know how many beggars in her suite, her belle fille (qui n'est pas belle, par parenthese), the
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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You will notice, 'par parenthese', that I take this opportunity of saying you and not thou to you.
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Though not altogether germain to our subject, may we here be permitted to inquire -- _par parenthese_ -- whether this simple rule does not furnish to us the means of reconciliation of apparent contradictions?
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield
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He kept open house in town and country, getting laughed at, en parenthese, by the toadies who spunged upon him; failed; got into "the Gazette;" and?
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_Par parenthese_, that word _freethinker_ is another of the terms conventionally abused.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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You will notice, 'par parenthese', that I take this opportunity of saying you and not thou to you.
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I come in only par parenthese, and I am glad to see that people are beginning to understand my real position, and to separate me from such raging infidels as you and Spencer.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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This, par parenthese, will be thought cool language by persons who entertain solemn doctrines about the angelic nature of children, and the duty of those charged with their education to conceive for them an idolatrous devotion: but I am not writing to flatter parental egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.
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And here I may mention (en parenthese) that a more comfortable morning gown no man ever possessed, and in its wide luxuriant folds I revel, while I write these lines.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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And here I may mention (en parenthese) that a more comfortable morning gown no man ever possessed, and in its wide luxuriant folds I revel, while I write these lines.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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