Example Sentences
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Come for the laughs, stay for the lippie: Place an order and Sloan will personally pack your Giggle Gloss at her house on Sundays.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2024
"My certie, he does, and a lippie in the bonnet more than that."
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
My blessin’s upon thy sweet wee lippie, My blessin’s upon thy bonnie e’e brie!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
And then, changing its tone into one still more doleful, 'Oh,' it exclaimed, 'alas, for the little lippie and the little peck! alas, for the little lippie and the little peck!'
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
And I was sounded as to the advisability of sending him a present of a lippie of shortbread, which was to be her crafty way of getting round him.
From Margaret Ogilvy by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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