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  • The youth played the gallant, and just as another might entertain his _innamorata_ at a champagne supper _en tete a tete_ in a private room, he led Cadine into some quiet corner of the market cellars to munch apples or sprigs of celery.

    The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

  • We are shut up together, tete-a-tete, which is so much the better or so much the worse.

    Original Short Stories — Volume 02 Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • We are shut up together, tete-a-tete, which is so much the better or so much the worse.

    Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

  • There were very few there who knew what "tete" meant, but the poem was very satisfactory, nevertheless.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

  • There were very few there who knew what "tete" meant, but the poem was very satisfactory, nevertheless.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872

  • There are indeed many times when letter-writing appears a very slow and insufficient means of communication: I have felt it so often since you left us, when I have longed for such a kind of tete-a-tete as tete alone, cannot enjoy.

    Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832

  • The 31-year-old Westbrook clearly had the ear of the referees, who engaged in the kind of tete-a-tetes they tend to conduct primarily with respected veterans.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Gwen Knapp 2010

  • Knitting sockets for street-lamps, waking up your co-citizens, or printing you "tete" (head) on the floor out of the metro to sell records or ray ban glasses …. ah! fascinating - respect for the brand/checked. prescription circle short-circuited and the brand needs a promotion to an icon.

    Tech IT Easy 2009

  • Knitting sockets for street-lamps, waking up your co-citizens, or printing you "tete" (head) on the floor out of the metro to sell records or ray ban glasses …. ah! fascinating - respect for the brand/checked. prescription circle short-circuited and the brand needs a promotion to an icon.

    Tech IT Easy 2009

  • But tete kale is also an expression that means all the way.

    Clinton Promises Haitian Leader Broad US Support 2011

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