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1. He was showy that way
2. Nested in one of the world’s most showy natural inlet, Hobart is a modern city settled as a town in 1803
3. showy and somewhat ostentatious style, is surrounded by magnificent gardens and is today shown to the
4. With more than ten million inhabitants, Metro Manila is, without any doubt, a delightful, showy and relaxing metropolis
5. They pointed out that Naaman would have gladly done something "hard" or maybe something "showy" to be healed
6. Let’s make a deal!” I said it with the showy
7. spared no expense on showy excess
8. Azucena had the gift of making appeared out of nothing the most beautiful garments that the textile industry could ever imagine; not even Versace in his best times could have designed so elegant and pompous, simple and stately, coloring or monochrome, conservative or showy, opaque or brilliant, long or short garments which such delicacy and pledge! In other words there were no limits that the creative and textile magic of Azucena could not cover, in terms of textures and designs
9. He needed a showy wife to exhibit in the social meetings at which he was often present
10. This allows for a better view of the showy bursts that actually reach the top of the dome almost a mile above the crowd
11. When Tres was young he used to always sit at the center of the dome on Enthusday, just to be where he could best see the showy flashes of light and feel the loud bursts across his chest
12. He can be showy and flamboyant
13. “I’ll escort him back to Emo World on condition that he takes on a less showy disguise
14. "What's the deal here, Bill? Why the big, showy breakfast?"
15. Sir Stanley and his two business colleagues looked on with some distaste at that showy continental gallantry
16. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings
17. showy and stuff, know what I mean? Not that I know that much about sex and
18. All was sweet with showy tolerance as white mums held beautiful black youngsters on their knees whenever they could catch one going from the pool to the bar or toilet; wet dresses and forced smiles were but a small price to pay for the privilege; the privilege of being white in Grahamstown and still the largest group within the comfortable class whose members now included a small number of the political majority
19. And indeed he was, his care just a touch on the side of showy
20. She flipped the keys to Ed in an easy underhand toss, and he executed a showy behind-the-back catch, adjusting the chef hat that perched precipitously over his receding sandy blond hairline at the same time
21. We consider this “barbaric” when discussing the brutal consequences of The Inquisition, Hitler’s purity-of-race madness or man’s eradication of any cuddly or showy animal or plant species
22. Not quite so showy, perhaps, but more permanent
23. Ingeborg felt suddenly that she herself was a thing of fal-lals--a showy thing, bedizened with a white collar and a hat she had till then considered neat, but that she now knew for a monstrous piece of frippery crushed on to insufficiently pinned-up hair
24. Either way, she was glad to have the impetuous Thorn with them, because all things considered, Liam had bravery and some skill with his showy red swords
25. however, true to hisdictatorial and showy character; see note
26. While it's the third largest city in Australia, Brisbane tends to come up short compared to the cosmopolitan and showy city of Sydney or the culturally mature and sophisticated styling of 5 star luxury that's
27. She had short hair but it was always perfectly combed and her dresses, though never showy were tasteful and
28. The glitter of his showy attire took her fancy, his ballads bewitched her (for he gave away twenty copies of every one he made), the tales of his exploits which he told about himself came to her ears; and in short, as the devil no doubt had arranged it, she fell in love with him before the presumption of making love to her had suggested itself to him; and as in love-affairs none are more easily brought to an issue than those which have the inclination of the lady for an ally, Leandra and Vicente came to an understanding without any difficulty; and before any of her numerous suitors had any suspicion of her design, she had already carried it into effect, having left the house of her dearly beloved father (for mother she had none), and disappeared from the village with the soldier, who came more triumphantly out of this enterprise than out of any of the large number he laid claim to
29. Fred, as the eldest twin, will have the estate, I suppose, and such a splendid one it is! A city house in a fashionable street, not so showy as our big houses, but twice as comfortable and full of solid luxury, such as English people believe in
30. serviceable, rather than showy and gay ones, and divide them between thy servants and the poor; that is to say, if thou canst clothe six pages, clothe three and three poor men, and thus thou wilt have pages for heaven and pages for earth; the vainglorious never think of this new mode of giving liveries
31. Then they began to move and execute a kind of skirmish upon the calm water, while a vast number of horsemen on fine horses and in showy liveries, issuing from the city, engaged on their side in a somewhat similar movement
32. Yes; and what else would you expect, I said, when you think of the puny creatures who, seeing this land open to them--a land well stocked with fair names and showy titles--like prisoners running out of prison into a sanctuary, take a leap out of their trades into philosophy; those who do so being probably the cleverest hands at their own miserable crafts? For, although philosophy be in this evil case, still there remains a dignity about her which is not to be found in the arts
33. furnished, nor so showy as those I left, were to the full as convenient,
34. saw him (for this happened five-and-twenty years ago, before you and I were, Handel), but I have heard my father mention that he was a showy man, and the kind of man for the purpose
35. At first the Administration will purchase these things from the private manufacturers, in such large quantities that it will be able to obtain them at the very cheapest rate, and as there will be no heavy rents to pay for showy shops, and no advertising expenses, and as the object of the Administration will be not to make profit, but to supply its workmen and officials with goods at the lowest price, they will be able to sell them much cheaper than the profit-making private stores
36. It was Saul’s showy piety that had tipped the balance, he decided
37. We beg them to take one step backward, and to transport themselves, the morning of that day of great catastrophes, into the showy, gilded salon we have before shown them, and which was the pride of its owner, Baron Danglars
38. I’d chosen Plum Haze because its shade was similar to the lipstick I wore in my regular, pre-PCT life, but now, with it on, I seemed to look like a clown, my mouth showy and manic against my weathered face
39. The latter was by far the most showy and gallant figure, so far as apparel went, anywhere to be seen among the multitude
40. We soon got to my lodgings, which, though not so handsomely furnished, nor so showy as those I left, were to the full as convenient, and at half price, though on the first floor
41. The house itself was handsome, wide and confident, one story, a complex roof, part adobe, part rough-hewn hunting lodge, showy enough to at least whisper wealth and taste, but by most standards not really showy at all
42. He was smooth without being showy
43. The one was an elderly man, with a strong, deep-lined, heavy-eyed face; the other a dashing young fellow, whose bright, smiling expression and showy dress were in strange contract with the business which had brought us there
44. Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold
45. I always imagined he was somewhat self-effacing, as while he was credited with most of the songs, his three bandmates took all the lead vocals, so I was startled by how showy his guitar playing was in person
46. It was an era that suited her, crude, garish, showy, full of over-dressed women, over-furnished
47. There had seemed nothing at all out of keeping with such a conjectured career in the storing up of these showy ornaments for his wife and the wives of her descendants
48. And he was not going to have his vanities provoked by contact with the showy worldly successes of the capital, but to live among people who could hold no rivalry with that pursuit of a great idea which was to be a twin object with the assiduous practice of his profession
49. "That's a showy sort of thing to do, you know," said Mr
50. Has he ever persisted in anything except from contradiction? In knowledge he has always tried to be showy at small cost