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The girl, perceiving that she was the object of their notice, turned round, and in an attitude of conscious irreproachableness, retorted with the challenge in Creole French, "Qui ent�t� �a?"

From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

One day I received a letter, evidently written in great consternation, from an elderly spinster of singularly aristocratic connections and an irreproachableness of life which was almost painful.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

There are select circles and professions in which the standard of irreproachableness is far higher than among the mass of the people.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon

It was not that she had, in the conventional sense, any doubt of Mrs. Hatch's irreproachableness.

From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith

She built up lurid fabrics of possible daring deeds, and smiled at the reflection of herself in shop windows as she passed, at the sobriety, the irreproachableness of the sheath containing these molten imaginings.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von