courtly
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Courtly love, behaving well, even while carrying a sword.
From Washington Post • May 25, 2019
About noon, Kenneth Drake and their college-age son went to a coin show at the UAW Hall in Fostoria and returned home to Courtly Drive, a residential street just off U.S.
From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2017
“They never really got any leads,” said Barb Reineck, who still lives on Courtly Drive and remembers the hunt.
From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2017
From Bawdy Street Dance to Courtly Refinement There are many ideas about how the chaconne — the intoxicating dance that bursts with improvisatory flair over a steady, repeating bass line — got its name.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2012
Dear King,—I don't know anything, these many years, that surprised and hurt me more than the sentiments you published in the Courtly Herald, the 12th December, signed John King, Egham Lodge.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel
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