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NEW STUDENT -- "Extensive, intensive, and pretensive."
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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If it came to question, Literature could well afford to send adrift many a pretensive poem, and even book of poems, before it could spare these compositions.
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If it came to question, Literature could well afford to send adrift many a pretensive poem, and even book of poems, before it could spare these compositions.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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If it came to question, Literature could well afford to send adrift many a pretensive poem, and even book of poems, before it could spare these compositions.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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She was an out of control kid and now to be so pretensive to be giving someone an advise.
Bossip.com 2009
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