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The creature daintily stepped into it, smiling shyly up at Jack as his grandfather walked over.

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At one point, she daintily wraps a piece of tulle ribbon around a raw fish carcass.

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As Napoleon strolled into the dining tent, his chef quickly fried up the eggs from his steward’s pocket and placed them daintily atop the general’s feast.

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You see how Julie methodically, and with a hint of odd urgency, unpacks her luggage, and how Rosalind daintily removes a tablet from a pillbox.

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The first man bites daintily into a brownish-green loaf and sips pale liquid.

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