Flirt

“'Oooh, don't.' Lilly staggered behind the counter. 'Hangover from hell. We had a good time, I think ⟳. He's such a flirt though. He really fancied Midnight. Was sooo gutted that she was actually a straight man. Think ⟳ it almost turned him celibate.'”

“Several young flirts about town had a design ⟳ to cast ⟳ us out of the fashionable world.”

“However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948. By the early 1950s, writers had earned the right to use ⟳ any method and to experiment ⟳.”

“Manufacturers are being stung into action on both sides of the Atlantic as climbers consult ⟳ their lawyers after a flirt with gravity. Of course responsible manufacturers already exercise great care with all aspects of safety and testing.”

“Only two years older than André, this bespectacled bookworm had, after a flirt with the surrealists, settled down as the editor of Gallimard's literary monthly, Nouvelle Revue Française, better known by its acronym NRF.”

“However, the later rabbinic Law demands from a Jew who wishes to return ⟳ to Judaism after a flirt with another religion, to go through giyur, conversion requirements, like ⟳ any Gentile who wishes to enter ⟳ the Covenant of Israel.”

“Receiving a chair in Stockholm 1904 – after a passing flirt with the Historical School and social reform ⟳ – he became an enigmatic Walrasian.”

“Lafayette Ron Hubbard was acquainted for some time with John “Jack” Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), the James Dean of the occult, who was a rocket engineer and, after a brief flirt with Marxism, became interested in witchcraft and voodoo ...”

“In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow ⟳, […]”

“[page 59:] A flirt of snow ⟳; after which, mild and pleasant weather, (with occasional showers) continued through the remainder of the month. [page 220:] The medium temperature of this month was 45, and it produced much mild and pleasant weather, interspersed with some rainy days, and a few flirts of snow ⟳, and frosty nights.”

“... and we still trusted to accomplish the Malnitzer Pass ⟳ on the morrow. Our hopes fell to zero as during the night an ominous wind howled over the roof, and shook our casements furiously. Morning broke with chilling flirts of rain ⟳.”

“But joy came in the morning : first a glimpse of blue sky between the flirts of rain ⟳, then a sign ⟳ of the sun. The river was reported to be rapidly filling — never mind ⟳, unlucky Friday has passed by, and we may look ⟳ for better things on Saturday.”

“Long before their wonted time the robins came, — so early, indeed, that many a flirt of snow ⟳ has stopped their nest-repairing, and sent them off shivering with the blues. They have ⟳ arrived now in full force ⟳.”

“"[…] and I would n't wonder ⟳ ef we did n't have ⟳ a little brush of wind and quite a flirt o' snow ⟳ outen her yit."”

“Who cares now for hailstones skirling? The rushes bend ⟳ to the eddies curling; A breath — and lo! the flag uncurling its petals blue Oh, spring ⟳ will come ⟳! There's a flirt of rain ⟳ and a drift of light ⟳; Oh, Spring ⟳ will come ⟳!”

“In the haze to the extreme north the Tower of Flints arose like ⟳ a celluloid ruler set ⟳ floating upon its end ⟳, or like ⟳ a water-color drawing of a tower that has been left in the open ⟳ and whose pigment has been all but washed away by a flirt of rain ⟳.”

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