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  • Aye, but a foolish one who thought herself a savante, and Giacomo Casanova renders her flaws with gusto in his memoirs.

    Madame Riccoboni Young Geoffrion 2009

  • He entered unobserved, just as Lady Penelope had finished reading some verses, and was commenting upon them with all the alacrity of a femme savante, in possession of something which no one is to hear repeated oftener than once.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Seattle and Olympia do not have a monopoly on idoit savante traffic planners.

    Sound Politics: Cost/benefit analysis 2006

  • The poet Charles de Sainte-Marthe called Anne de Pisseleu "la plus belle des savantes et la plus savante des belles" "the most beautiful among the learned and the most learned among the beautiful".

    Archive 2008-09-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

  • For as the woman in white, savante and reclusive, shorn of context, place, and reference, she seems to exist outside of time, untouched by it.

    The Woman in White Oates, Joyce Carol 2008

  • The poet Charles de Sainte-Marthe called Anne de Pisseleu "la plus belle des savantes et la plus savante des belles" "the most beautiful among the learned and the most learned among the beautiful".

    The Rise and Fall of a Royal Mistress Julianne Douglas 2008

  • So, in a serious effort to re-evaluate a possibly unfairly maligned savante, I'm beginning a series of quotes, at the end of each new entry, reviewing:

    Archive 2008-05-01 Will 2008

  • So, in a serious effort to re-evaluate a possibly unfairly maligned savante, I'm beginning a series of quotes, at the end of each new entry, reviewing:

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

  • December 04, 2005 1: 16 AM bibliobibuli said ... kak teh - tea for sure! savante, anon - i know of a dentist here called Ow.

    Not Daunted by Squidginess Sharon Bakar 2005

  • December 04, 2005 3: 34 PM bibliobibuli said ... savante - yes i was looking forward to hearing who the nominees were greenbottle - nothing wrong with that!

    And the Bad Sex Award Goes to ... Sharon Bakar 2005

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