Sentence example with the word 'foppery'

foppery

Last update: August 19, 2015


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The passage about Marie Antoinette, which has since become a stock piece in books of recitation, seemed to Francis a mere piece of foppery; for was she not a Messalina and a jade?   [Please select]

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Guy said that the siege of Acre was a foppery.   [Please select]

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"'Tis well that I am too old for foppery."'   [Please select]

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Stately and cold and polite, she had fairly met his ceaseless foppery and preciseness of manner.   [Please select]

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Some satanic whim or malicious foppery made Charley stare him blankly in the face.   [Please select]

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We have had attempts at foppery in America, but no real fops.   [Please select]

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'Follow me,' said Richard, 'as soon as you have done with all this foppery.'   [Please select]

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Franklin's own suggestion that the scheme smacks of "foppery in morals" seems justified.   [Please select]

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'Tis worth crossing an inn in these times to see a young man whose strength has not been wasted upon foppery.'   [Please select]

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Learn hence to study wisdom's rules; Know, foppery's the pride of fools; And, striving nature to conceal, You only her defects reveal.   [Please select]

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