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Charles Palliser does not resuscitate this old form -- which stretched from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy -- in order to play modernistically with its conventions, as John Fowles did in The French Lieutenant's Woman.

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Much flustered, French Minister of Merchant Marine L�on Meyer called such an-explanation "too easy," suggested off his own bat that fires on modernistically decorated liners might be "due to the use of too exotic woods."

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The room they saw modernistically designed by Junior Leaguer Mrs. George Draper is bright, undeniably attractive.

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The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers.

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