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Perle and rouge vegetal is showing
He is thinking how the Blanc de Perle and rouge vegetal is showing on her three-and-thirty-year-old face, and what his life would be like if he listened to his father and married her.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

people are really very insipid sort
Your mere good kind of people are really very insipid sort of folks; and as such totally unsuited to my taste.
— from The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire

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