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In this way we are able to rise above the trivial, worn topics of the day -- the usual make-talk of the multitude.
The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors George Douglass Sherley 1887
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In point of words, a make-talk affair; in point of feeling, a vague shadowy suggestion of twenty delicious possibilities; in point of fact a walk without any serious results.
The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors George Douglass Sherley 1887
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Most of it is make-talk talk, in which you try to help out as best you can; then, “Well, I’ll let you get some rest.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Most of it is make-talk talk, in which you try to help out as best you can; then, “Well, I’ll let you get some rest.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Most of it is make-talk talk, in which you try to help out as best you can; then, “Well, I’ll let you get some rest.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Most of it is make-talk talk, in which you try to help out as best you can; then, “Well, I’ll let you get some rest.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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