Sample Sentences forfoible (auto-selected)
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So she headed toward Cop Central, rested, well fed, and in her newly repaired vehicle, which in under five blocks decided to surprise her with a new foible.† (source)
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Often, almost daily, since I had known Sebastian, some chance word in his conversation had reminded me that he was a Catholic, but I took it as a foible, like his teddy-bear.† (source)
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I would read the inscriptions on walls, and carved into floors, a special foible of rich Anglicans who thought they'd get more points with God by being engraved.† (source)
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When Janaki, recovered from her sickness, came to see me, she marvelled that I could write; but Kali, who had come too, was scornful of the strange symbols which had no meaning for her and dismissed it as a foible of pregnancy.† (source)
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Everybody knew of Gawaine's foible.† (source)
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But this is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows that he has a few foibles himself.† (source)
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She didn't know all my foibles and shortcomings.† (source)
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"First stanza," I announced, advancing and barely engaging, foible-a-foible.† (source)
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He had gathered and stacked all manner of foibles, devices, playthings of his egotism and now, between all the silly corridors of books, the toys of his life swayed.† (source)
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But that foible his father had of increasing his age to magnify his guilt had long ago become familiar to him.† (source)
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Surely I don't have to remind you that our professional duty is not to our own foibles and sentiments, but to the wishes of our employer.† (source)
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K. took this to be just a foible of the painter's, and it irritated him as it made him lose time.† (source)
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When they signed up with Hall's expedition, none of them had known that a reporter would be in their midst-scribbling constantly, quietly recording their words and deeds in order to share their foibles with a potentially unsympathetic Public.† (source)
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Never mind about that, it is only a foible; but just now he assured me that all his life, from the day he was made an ensign to the 11th of last June, he has entertained at least two hundred guests at his table every day.† (source)
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It had been as simple as that—and infinitely more complex, the marriage of two intelligent people who had over fifteen years learned each other's foibles and strengths and grown ever closer.† (source)
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I see well enough, but I never will seem to look, fearing to distress them; thus I gain a double pleasure when I recite to them my poems; for I leave those poor fellows who have not breakfasted free to eat, even while I gratify my own dearest foible, see you?† (source)
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