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  • She did not care that the latest on-dit had it that her shocking behavior was why Rosen had not in the end come up to scratch, as well as being the reason why, despite the numbers of her suitors, she was, at the end of her third Season, on the verge of being left on the shelf.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Reynolds portrait of Viscountess BolingbrokeAn on-dit making the rounds at that time was that Reynolds had been given a peculiar instruction by the commissioner of both portraits.

    Guest Blogger Jo Manning on Nelly O'Brien Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • She did not care that the latest on-dit had it that her shocking behavior was why Rosen had not in the end come up to scratch, as well as being the reason why, despite the numbers of her suitors, she was, at the end of her third Season, on the verge of being left on the shelf.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Reynolds portrait of Viscountess BolingbrokeAn on-dit making the rounds at that time was that Reynolds had been given a peculiar instruction by the commissioner of both portraits.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • I heard an on-dit today about Villabarbosa's "vision".

    Is The Mayor Trying To "Eliminate" the LAUSD School Board? 2006

  • For those of you who do not know what an on-dit is, it's a demerit for lack of good form, savvy?

    Meet Mayor Antonio Villagrossa This Saturday at Hazard Park (CD14) for "Million Trees LA" Project 2006

  • Depending upon how close to the face the shot is, that is factored in as an on-dit with the other.

    COMING SOON - CJ's Endorsements 2006

  • Dans la vie de tous les jours, n'acceptons-nous pas indifféremment, sans vérification d'aucune sorte, des on-dit, des renseignements anonymes et sans garantie, toutes sortes de "documents" de médiocre ou de mauvais aloi ?

    languagehat.com: ON BELIEVING WHAT WE'RE TOLD. 2004

  • The story is told by a contemporary, but only as an _on-dit_, and may therefore be quite untrue.

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • Chapter 2: = of on dit = silently corrected as = of on-dit =

    The Gold of Chickaree Susan Warner 1852

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