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We aren't getting anywhere thinking that we need of a modality of sanity when we see the incoherence of the main stream merchant class media resounding the illtempered illbred imbroglio war-mongerers.
Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 2008
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Such pertinent questions are far from being illbred or troublesome to those of whom you ask them; on the contrary, they are a tacit compliment to their knowledge; and people have a better opinion of a young man, when they see him desirous to be informed.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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“It would be a very fine sight indeed,” said this illbred minx, “to see me go draw water.”
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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-- Besides, if he was to speak his real sentiments, I am so illbred, unpolished &c. that I never shall succeed with ladies or the World &c. &c.
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The next time the Revue allows such illbred persons to throw their slops out of its first-floor windows, let it honestly preface the discharge with a gardezleau! that we may run from under in season.
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The sneer at bigotry and narrowness of views, on one side, and the uncharitable implication of want of piety, or sense, on the other, are equally illbred and unchristian.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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Fixed habits of tone, manner, language, and movements, cannot be suddenly altered; and those who are illbred at home, even when they try to hide their bad habits, are sure to violate many of the obvious rules of propriety, and yet be unconscious of it.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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Such pertinent questions are far from being illbred or troublesome to those of whom you ask them; on the contrary, they are a tacit compliment to their knowledge; and people have a better opinion of
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Such pertinent questions are far from being illbred or troublesome to those of whom you ask them; on the contrary, they are a tacit compliment to their knowledge; and people have a better opinion of
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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All the morning with Mr. Berkenshaw, and after him Mr. Moore in discourse of business, and in the afternoon by coach by invitacon to my uncle Fenner's, where I found his new wife, a pitiful, old, ugly, illbred woman in a hatt, a midwife.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for the phrase "What is the rate of increase?" --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 24, 2013