Example Sentences

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Besides, the picture displayed a girl not merely pretty but quasi-ideal, a face infinitely delicate, disdainful yet sad.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar

She has made earnest, successful effort to induce a batch of clever young lawyers into a frequent and regular attendance at the house, under pretext of a quasi-ideal Literary Association.

From The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors by Sherley, George Douglass