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SWANGE Tile Tersoo	With the most genteel empirical facts, Swange is the nude African damsel, Who has invited me to a silent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Clerk Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	That I may lose a steady job That 'job genteel' I hold so dear These be the splendid attributes Of one who yearns to emulate His master; and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hand Of Glory: The Nurse's Story Richard Harris Barham	town, At the sign of the Crown, Three shabby-genteel men are just sitting down To a fat stubble-goose, with potatoes done brown; When a little...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Idolators Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	There stood a band of 'righteous' folk - a very 'genteel' throng; All much surprised and scandalised, and scenting 'something...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Philistine Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	become quite nice. Still, there's a certain 'genteel' brand That marks the cultured man. Smith doesn't seem to understand; He's such a stupid...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Sabine Farmer's Serenade Father Prout	You've got, and so have I, A taste for genteel breeding; You're rich, and fair, and young, As everybody's knowing; You've got a decent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Saree Anany Phadnis	Her genteel fingers ran through...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Tragedy, Richard Harris Barham	And took his rappee with genteel nonchalance; He smiled, and he flatter'd, and flirted with ease, And was very superior...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vulgar Little Lady Ann Taylor	"Then, servants are vulgar, and I am genteel; So really, 'tis out of the way, To think that I should not be better a deal Than maids, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Titmarsh’s Carmen Lilliense William Makepeace Thackeray	To pawn my watch I'm too genteel, Besides, I left my watch at home, How could I pawn it then at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
To Ladies Of A Certain Age John Trumbull	The artful leer, the rolling eye, The trip genteel, the heaving sigh, The labour'd smile, of force too weak, Low dimpling in th' autumnal cheek,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Toolangi Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	First he started poultry farming, as a mild, genteel employment; For the business promised profit, and the labor wasn't hard; But he wondered what...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Walking Below Francine Douglas	people just walking into the water so genteel I cringe away from the path the others take watching the bodies compile in that lake...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Wanted — A Theme Grace Greenwood	The ladies fair would vote me odd, and not at all genteel; And ah, the lordly sex, mother, their ire would heaviest fall, — They'd vow I was a sour...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Why Are There Tears? Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.	A kinder more genteel place Perhaps is enough to bring on the tears For the floundering human race So maybe I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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