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The slight turn of the head coarsens the nose and widens the lower jaw with an unpatrician suggestion of which there is no hint when she is before you in vivid substance.

From The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend by Dargan, Olive Tilford

He could not interpose to demean his ancient lineage by consenting to this unpatrician alliance; he would not accept the alternative for his only son—the last of the Giustiniani!

From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

But how could he hope to win his father's consent to any unpatrician alliance!

From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.