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    1. frequently, in an unctuous voice, those catch-words of


    2. Once, when he was delivering himself of an unctuous remark to Jerry, Faith broke in rudely with a flat contradiction


    3. "A SUIT able woman of SUIT able age," that unctuous brother of the cloth had said, in his far from subtle hint


    4. They started with a visit to Monsieur Gilbert, who was at his unctuous best when they were ushered into his office


    5. Yet that unctuous hypocrite said, ‘I know a way by which you can pay your money as alms, then you can get it back at the same time, and it will cost you only ten pounds


    6. Who is Merivale, that he shall burden my memory with even shreds of his unctuous imitations? And I go down to breakfast with a fortified and shining spirit, as one who has arisen refreshed and determined from prayer, and out on the terrace I do shut my ears


    7. “What do I want Captain Laroche? I’ve brought you something that you may want!” Madden's reply was spoken with a voice that was unctuous and excited


    8. Whenever he saw me drinking a highball he harassed me with cups of coffee and unctuous smiles


    9. “He is so unctuous he repels me


    10. Rafferty couldn't begin to imagine what appeal the smooth, unctuous Sir Anthony could possibly have for any woman

    11. "My mother," Randy Semeska said, grinning his unctuous grin, "is of far greater concern


    12. The voice, unctuous with pleasure over what was happening, did not take long to recognize


    13. For years her interactions with Nathan had reminded her of dealing with an unctuous, eager-to-please salesman working on commission only


    14. This was how he fulfilled the unctuous promise made to the confiding parents at the time the girl was handed over to his tender mercy - that he would `make a woman of her'


    15. This box contained an unctuous substance partly solid, of which it was impossible to discover the color, owing to the reflection of the polished gold, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, which ornamented the box


    16. "The senora is in the Senor Adminstrador's cancillaria," said Basilio, in an unctuous voice


    17. She recognized the remarkably deep and no less remarkably unctuous voice of the chief of the delegation from Trebizon—the one that had been pestering her father for months to promise her hand in marriage to their appalling tallow-tub of a Prince


    18. It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before mentioned: i


    19. A sweet and unctuous duty! No wonder that in old times this sperm was such a favourite cosmetic


    20. In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still contains considerable of its unctuous properties

    21. I impute it, though, to their naturally unctuous natures, being rendered still more unctuous by the nature of their vocation, and especially by their pursuing their game in those frigid Polar Seas, on the very coasts of that Esquimaux country where the convivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil


    22. Oh, you self-satisfied persons who, in your unctuous pride, are forever ready to mouth your maxims—if only you knew how fully I myself comprehend the sordidness of my present state, you would not trouble to wag your tongues at me! What could you say to me that I do not already know? Well, wherein lies my difficulty? It lies in the fact that by a single turn of a roulette wheel everything for me, has become changed


    23. Its colour is a greenish yellow; it is brittle, very adhesive to the tongue, but little unctuous, and probably contains more alumine and less magnesia than steatites in general


    24. Its colour is nearly that of bright lead, very brilliant, smooth, and almost unctuous; soft, flexible, distinctly foliated, and the folia are very thin, and easily separable, almost like mica


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