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  • It flopped quietly, like many much-touted orders.†   (source)
  • In fact, the "bloodbath" school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low.†   (source)
  • And a star-spangled graphic across the screen said something that might have been a foreign language for all the sense Mortenson could make of it: "Minority Whip Touts Republican Takeover.†   (source)
  • In 1891, the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce published a pamphlet touting their achievements.†   (source)
  • One day he saw a get-rich flyer touting the Rio Grande Valley.†   (source)
  • Her parents were supportive in their own way—her father said nothing whatsoever about it; her mother clipped out magazine articles that touted the latest medical developments—but her brother, Brian, before he headed off for his first year at the University of North Carolina, had been a life-saver.†   (source)
  • There was snow in the capital city, an unaccustomed spectacle that remained on the front page of all the newspapers, touted as a festive decoration, while in the impoverished shantytowns on the city's outskirts the blue, frozen bodies of small children were discovered every morning.†   (source)
  • He would pay touts to go to the furthermost villages and find them where they were hidden away, shunned by their husbands and families.†   (source)
  • Within a matter of months, our half-forgotten Oregon band was on the cover of Time magazine being touted as "The Millennials' Nirvana."†   (source)
  • "The Raison Vaccine has been touted in private circles for a few months now "Not in his private circles."†   (source)
  • From the self-help bookshelves to the Complaint-Free World movement, the power of positive thinking is touted now more than ever as the way to be happy, healthy, wealthy, and wise.†   (source)
  • However, with recent events, it isn't the progress that will be touted by the press.†   (source)
  • Even at this hour, touts stood outside nightclubs, holding free passes or cards that would give you discounts on drinks; Sebastian gestured them aside impatiently, snapping his annoyance in Czech.†   (source)
  • Keep them from wasting their much touted skills on one another.†   (source)
  • This Anglo-African mixture is still the lingua franca on the river, as we heard from the boatmen on the dock touting for passengers to Freetown, shouting, "Freetown-Freetown-Freetown, now-now-now-now," and, "Verygood-verygood-verygood."†   (source)
  • The very thing they touted as the greatest time-saving device in history—a computer—now occupies the lion's share of everybody's life.†   (source)
  • O contempler la mer a l'ombre d'un haut figuier et touter tout autour les cris des hirondelles voltigeant dans l'azur parmi les oliviers!†   (source)
  • Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.   (source)
  • It's a staple of the military's casualty notification teams knocking on doors, lawyers touting the merits of plea deals to clients, policemen stopping cars at 3 A.M., cheating husbands.†   (source)
  • The developer of a large Englewood parcel touted this asset in a catalog promoting the auction of two hundred residential lots called the Bates Subdivision: "To the business men of the Union Stock Yards it is particularly convenient and accessible, and free from the odors that are wafted by the prevailing winds to the most fashionable localities of the City."†   (source)
  • The ship passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide.†   (source)
  • Mavis touted the virtues of lip dye, but Eve was wary of a color commitment that could last for three weeks.†   (source)
  • Burton Welsh, the man who now served as Austin's district attorney in large part because of his highly touted prosecution of BoneMan two years prior, stared at them from his perch against the windowsill, one hand across his waist, the other stroking up his chin, as though scratching at a thought.†   (source)
  • He touted figures on violent crime, on urban decay, on bootlegged drugs, all a result, the senator claimed, of our increasing moral decline, our softness on criminals, our indulgence in sexual freedom without responsibility.†   (source)
  • He sold outright instead of touting for orders.†   (source)
  • Even normally we'd have been met by a gang of kids, beggars, loafers, hotel-touts, and so forth, but the eagle on my fist brought out a mob from the shops and bars and from the awning-covered market just below the cathedral.†   (source)
  • The beggars and loafers were already collecting in their Middle Ages style, the touts and schnorrers and the others uncovering their damages and stock-in-trade woes from bandages and rags.†   (source)
  • Did you hear who is being touted for stroke next year over at Cornell?†   (source)
  • You been touting him for the last six weeks!" protested Orville Jones.†   (source)
  • The MORBLEUS, the SANG DIEUS, the MORTS TOUTS LES DIABLES, crossed one another in the air.†   (source)
  • I found afterwards that he had sent touts all over the bazaar to announce the fact—told all the litigants, 'Oh, you'd better come to my Vakil Mahmoud Ali—he's in with the City Magistrate.'†   (source)
  • Why, you're always touting these Greek dancers, or whatever they are, that don't even wear a shimmy!"†   (source)
  • They, an' all grims an' signs an' warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome berk-bodies an' railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an' to get folks to do somethin' that they don't other incline to.†   (source)
  • The housetops of his search should be half India; he would follow Kings and Ministers, as in the old days he had followed vakils and lawyers' touts across Lahore city for Mahbub Ali's sake.†   (source)
  • The conflicting interests of these touting gentlemen being of a nature to irritate their feelings, personal collisions took place; and the Commons was even scandalized by our principal inveigler (who had formerly been in the wine trade, and afterwards in the sworn brokery line) walking about for some days with a black eye.†   (source)
  • Crows and touts, hoarse bookies in high wizard hats clamour deafeningly.†   (source)
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  • Oui, continuez tout droit dans cette direction.†   (source)
  • Tout pourvoir.†   (source)
  • On a tout perdu.†   (source)
  • Tout fins, for this season, at least.†   (source)
  • Now, because we're talking to all your watchers now, I'd like to tout the overall program your own data feeds into, Mae.†   (source)
  • I leave the decision to tout or not to others.†   (source)
  • If she didn't write "tout de suite," he'd lock her in a broom closet with a rather unattractive mutual acquaintance of theirs, give both of them "potent aphrodisiacs," and "take away the Lavoris."†   (source)
  • "Mail, bien stir," he heard Yves saying to Madame Belet, "je suis tout a fait a votre avis."†   (source)
  • C'est tout.†   (source)
  • For they are a little people, smaller than Dwarves: less tout and stocky, that is, even when they are not actually much shorter.†   (source)
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  • Over grilled pork chops and mashed potatoes, Charley continued to tout the dazzling benefits of the mortuary business in "a city of five million," though the women were losing interest.†   (source)
  • Madame Lumière promises to return tout de suite.†   (source)
  • "Mike amigo, do you also tout horse races?"†   (source)
  • " "The worst thing is I had that Prophet here in my own office must be a thousand times, I could have killed that boy and saved myself more trouble--tout you never know, do you?"†   (source)
  • O contempler la mer a l'ombre d'un haut figuier et touter tout autour les cris des hirondelles voltigeant dans l'azur parmi les oliviers!†   (source)
  • It was a slow, tout-like, humiliating business.†   (source)
  • At their feet was the basket that had been saved tout, with a napkin of biscuits and bacon on top.†   (source)
  • "A tout a l'heure," said the maitre d', as he headed down to the flower shop.†   (source)
  • " The words—tout moun se moun—seemed like the answer to the question he'd asked himself earlier that day.†   (source)
  • Tout pourvoir.†   (source)
  • Now they were a brilliant yellow, and Discipline Avant Tout—"Discipline Above All"—had been freshly painted in big black letters.†   (source)
  • Below electric lights the outside wall gleamed with new white paint; and again, but in large black letters about two feet high, was Discipline Avant Tout.†   (source)
  • There was a photograph of the President showing his chief's stick; and above it on the blue wall, high up, where the uneven surface was dusty rather than grimy, was painted Discipline Avant Tout—"Discipline Above All."†   (source)
  • Tout de [unclear] c'est bien imagine, ca.†   (source)
  • "Tout àfait au bout, Monsieur," he called.†   (source)
  • Tout de mame, it is not necessary that he should be killed on the Orient Express.†   (source)
  • Immediately a second drama commences-tout [unreadable] part.†   (source)
  • I want a list of all their agents, you know, fellows who sell on commission and tout for orders.†   (source)
  • "Tout de m ame," murmured Poirot, "I can hardly believe it.†   (source)
  • Stella would leave early to be on the lot, and even though there was a bonne à tout faire to fix my breakfast I couldn't always bring myself to sit down at the yellow red-embroidered Turkestan cloth for my coffee.†   (source)
  • Smiling bravely, he sits over a half-pint of bitter beer, in the company of a racing tout, a swaybacked barmaid, broad in the stern, with adjustable teeth, and three companionable tarts from Lisle street, who are making the best of two pints of Guinness.†   (source)
  • Ah! c'est rigolo, tout ca !†   (source)
  • It ran through yellow wheat fields waving beneath the fierce yellow days of labor and hard sleep in haystacks beneath the cold mad moon of September, and the brittle stars: he was in turn laborer, miner, prospector, gambling tout; he enlisted in the army, served four months and deserted and was never caught.†   (source)
  • Sebastian found him, starving as tout to one of the houses in the Kasbah, and brought him to stay with us.†   (source)
  • "Du tout," said Poirot quickly.†   (source)
  • In his pocket-tout simplement.†   (source)
  • It was some three days afterwards, when my vacation had just begun, that I received a visitor at my own apartments-a lady, heavily veiled, but evidently quite young; and I perceived at once that she was ajeune fille tout à fait comme il faut .†   (source)
  • "Tout de [garbled], I do not think there is much you can do down there for the present," said Poirot.†   (source)
  • Tout de [unreadable]-it is better that-the quick, cruel death than what those children were singing …… To be shut away-in a box-for ever …… No, it is not good, that.†   (source)
  • A tout l'heure then.†   (source)
  • Du tout.†   (source)
  • C'est tout naturel.†   (source)
  • Du tout!†   (source)
  • " 'L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand."†   (source)
  • You're more likely to earn your living as a bonne a tout faire than as a painter.†   (source)
  • The cold stethoscope against my heart and my strongest feeling "Je m'en fiche de tout.†   (source)
  • And off he went, this trusty tout, without even giving me time to thank him.†   (source)
  • J'ai une tout autre idee de la justice, depuis que je suis en ce pays.†   (source)
  • Behind them, inconspicuous as a cat, ambled a small fat person who looked like a lawyer's tout.†   (source)
  • A tout venant le Coeur vend des Carreaux.†   (source)
  • Tout vient a point a celui qui sait attendre.†   (source)
  • Tout l'ancien monde s'ecroula Quand la grosse boule roula.†   (source)
  • If Tess were made rich by marrying a gentleman, would she have money enough to buy a spyglass so large that it would draw the stars as near to her as Nettlecombe-Tout?†   (source)
  • …robes that excited the indignation of the Bishop of Pontus, and were figured with "lions, panthers, bears, dogs, forests, rocks, hunters—all, in fact, that a painter can copy from nature;" and the coat that Charles of Orleans once wore, on the sleeves of which were embroidered the verses of a song beginning "Madame, je suis tout joyeux," the musical accompaniment of the words being wrought in gold thread, and each note, of square shape in those days, formed with four pearls.†   (source)
  • Voila tout.†   (source)
  • …getting "graft," and was willing to pay over a share of it: the green-goods man and the highwayman, the pickpocket and the sneak thief, and the receiver of stolen goods, the seller of adulterated milk, of stale fruit and diseased meat, the proprietor of unsanitary tenements, the fake doctor and the usurer, the beggar and the "pushcart man," the prize fighter and the professional slugger, the race-track "tout," the procurer, the white-slave agent, and the expert seducer of young girls.†   (source)
  • Il est tout a fait different.†   (source)
  • Then it ceased: ceased and began again in a weird chant that soared and hung and fell and blended with the rain: "Tout suffocant Et bleme quand Sonne l'heure Je me souviens Des jours anciens Et je pleure…."†   (source)
  • I contended that one may get on knowing very well that one's courage does not come of itself (ne vient pas tout seul).†   (source)
  • In the middle distance ahead of her she could see the summits of Bulbarrow and of Nettlecombe Tout, and they seemed friendly.†   (source)
  • Tout à vous, NICOLE WARREN.†   (source)
  • "All that lot (tout ce monde) on shore—with their little affairs—nobody left but a guard of seamen (marins de l'Etat) and that interesting corpse (cet interessant cadavre).†   (source)
  • This fertile and sheltered tract of country, in which the fields are never brown and the springs never dry, is bounded on the south by the bold chalk ridge that embraces the prominences of Hambledon Hill, Bulbarrow, Nettlecombe-Tout, Dogbury, High Stoy, and Bubb Down.†   (source)
  • Voilà tout!†   (source)
  • Each of them—I say each of them, if he were an honest man—bien entendu—would confess that there is a point—there is a point—for the best of us—there is somewhere a point when you let go everything (vous lachez tout).†   (source)
  • _Tout cela c'est de la cochonnerie_….†   (source)
  • "In our domain," the apologies for familiarity, the French phrase tout court, were all characteristic signs.†   (source)
  • Unconscious of her presence, he still went on singing:— "Le point du jour A nos bosquets rend toute leur parure; Flore est plus belle a son retour; L'oiseau reprend doux chant d'amour; Tout celebre dans la nature Le point du jour.†   (source)
  • He's exceedingly clever, a man made to be distinguished; but, as I tell you, you exhaust the description when you say he's Mr. Osmond who lives tout betement in Italy.†   (source)
  • ~La beauté est parfaite, La beauté peut tout, La beauté est la seule chose qui n'existe pàs a demi~.†   (source)
  • Tout-a-fait a l'anglaise.†   (source)
  • And if the will and letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s'ensuit!†   (source)
  • Ne sachant pas le mal, elle faisait le bien; Des richesses du coeur elle me fit l'aumone, Et tout en ecoutant comme le coeur se donne, Sans oser y penser je lui donnai le mien; Elle emporta ma vie, et n'en sut jamais rien."†   (source)
  • Vous avez change tout cela.†   (source)
  • "Pardon, j'en ai tout plein les poches," he answered, smiling, putting his fingers in his waistcoat pocket.†   (source)
  • '—_tout court_?†   (source)
  • La premiere fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge Je pris un baiser a ton levre en feu, Quand tu t'en allais decoiffee et rouge, Je restai tout pale et je crus en Dieu!†   (source)
  • All this must be done in good order (le tout se fera avec ordre et methode) as far as possible retaining troops in reserve.†   (source)
  • Tout ca est une blague.†   (source)
  • "Comtesse, a tout peche misericorde," * said a fair-haired young man with a long face and nose, as he entered the room.†   (source)
  • These:— Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous etions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'etre bien mis et d'etre amoureux, Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre age a mon age, Nous ne comptions pas a deux quarante ans, Et que, dans notre humble et petit menage, Tout, meme l'hiver, nous etait printemps?†   (source)
  • Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.†   (source)
  • Tout vous contemplait.†   (source)
  • The merchant who says: "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: "Tiers et tout, refait de pique," the sheriff of the Norman Isles who says: The holder in fee reverting to his landed estate cannot claim the fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the…†   (source)
  • "Count Lichtenfels was here this morning," Bilibin continued, "and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement….†   (source)
  • C'est la fable de tout Moscou.†   (source)
  • The froeken, bonne a tout faire, who rubs male nakedness in the bath at Upsala.†   (source)
  • (He minuets forward three paces on tripping bee's feet) Tout le monde en avant!†   (source)
  • Police tout.†   (source)
  • Tout le monde en place!†   (source)
  • "Mr Western," answered the lady, "you may say what you please, _je vous mesprise de tout mon coeur.†   (source)
  • Thus swived* was the carpentere's wife, *enjoyed For all his keeping* and his jealousy; *care And Absolon hath kiss'd her nether eye; And Nicholas is scalded in the tout.†   (source)
  • The hote culter burned so his tout*, *breech That for the smart he weened* he would die; *thought As he were wood*, for woe he gan to cry, *mad "Help! water, water, help for Godde's heart!"†   (source)
  • But forasmuch as the good works that men do while they be in good life be all amortised [killed, deadened] by sin following, and also since all the good works that men do while they be in deadly sin be utterly dead, as for to have the life perdurable [everlasting], well may that man that no good works doth, sing that new French song, J'ai tout perdu — mon temps et mon labour <5>.†   (source)
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