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Brown was
beginning to be
widely known,
Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at
Warwick Castle: The
castle is enchanting; the view...
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other monuments. It does not seem ever to have grown, and it was
slightingly called (a pun on its name)
Eleinou Polis, "the
wretched town". Nearby...
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appointed to
guard him. He is
taken before the governor,
whose name is
slightingly alluded to ("Monroe he set up for go[ver]nor"). The
whole country turns...
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sometimes accompanied Gray on walks, in the
course of
which he too
spoke slightingly of his wife,
possibly s****ing to turn Gray
against her. Effie's surviving...
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inoculation as the best
remedy for small-pox, and
mentions vaccination slightingly. This
article incorporates text from a
publication now in the public...
- its (Israel's)
righteous women. A man must be
careful never to
speak slightingly to his wife,
because women are
prone to
tears and
sensitive to wrong...
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became extinct on his death.
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford,
spoke slightingly of him and his mistress, Anna
Maria Faulkner,
including alleging that...
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Victoria (from the 1880s) as a ‘cabbage garden’ referring,
somewhat slightingly, to the
small size of the state.
Cajun (US) A
person from
Louisiana (mainly...
- on
every proper occasion.” The
fourth resolution was, “not to
speak slightingly or use
nicknames which tend to humiliate, off end or
discourage him.”...
- Act not
repealed until 1828. Sir
William Coventry, his uncle,
speaks slightingly of him,
ridicules his
vanity and
wishes him out of the
House of Commons...
