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They are reckoned the flashers of the place, yet everybody laughs at them for their airs, affectations, and tonish graces and impertinences.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny

He is a prating, good-humoured old gossip, who runs on in as incoherent and unconnected a style of discourse as Rose Fuller, though not so tonish.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny