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"ref": "1968, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, Elegy for Corsica, page 118",
"text": "For as the girls pass by in this very pure phase of their lives, flamingo-limbed with that articulation of the true elfette, I most sadly recall the fact that in every interview I've read every allu- meuse without exception has wanted one thing more than any other in life",
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"ref": "1974, Geoffrey Grigson, The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold, page 18",
"text": "At forty, after a bad illness, the Secretary of the Bank entangles himself with a girl - decidedly - of thirty-seven, half courted, half parried by him in letters of the most glucose baby talk. She is an elfette, an elfin art-adorer, who had been a little girl",
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"ref": "1988, Raymond H. Ring, Telluride Smile, page 74",
"text": "An elfette wearing thigh garters and a derby and not much else took my order. People were packing into the place for the designer hamburgers and avant-garde soups and an array of purported Mexican food.",
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"ref": "1989, Charles Nelson, Panthers in the Skins of Men, page 17",
"text": "I'd like to look in my stocking and find a shapely elfette eager to scrub me under a hot shower.",
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"ref": "1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A Singular Passion, page 93",
"text": "I hardly wanted my elfette laid up for the rest of her stay.",
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"ref": "2011, Sheila Roberts, The Nine Lives of Christmas, page 17",
"text": "He reached for something generic and the elfette gave a little gasp",
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"ref": "2014, Revolving Doors: The True Account of the Full Spectrum of Fostering Abuses, page 170",
"text": "Before I know it, my time with Santa is over, and the diminutive, green, elfette lady is lifting me down off Santa's expansive knees.",
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"ref": "2015, James Wynbrandt, The Excruciating History of Dentistry, page 273",
"text": "Curator Rosemary Wells, Ph.D., of the Northwestern University Dental School, has collected over 500 tooth fairy figurines and portraits along with a library of books about the ethereal elfette.",
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"ref": "2016, Dr. David E. Miller, The Dawn of Tomorrow, page 144",
"text": "Mom dropped me off at Liz's house for the final fitting of the elf costume and the make-up job. Liz told me that the costumes would be green because her elfette costume was really a pregnant leprechauness outfit that her older sister had used in a school play.",
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"ref": "2019, Lani Lynn Vale, Quit Your Pitchin, page 109",
"text": "the Elf who was now starting to resemble recently getting out of the shower elfette, and not clean and dry elfette.",
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"text": "For as the girls pass by in this very pure phase of their lives, flamingo-limbed with that articulation of the true elfette, I most sadly recall the fact that in every interview I've read every allu- meuse without exception has wanted one thing more than any other in life",
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"text": "At forty, after a bad illness, the Secretary of the Bank entangles himself with a girl - decidedly - of thirty-seven, half courted, half parried by him in letters of the most glucose baby talk. She is an elfette, an elfin art-adorer, who had been a little girl",
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},
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"text": "I'd like to look in my stocking and find a shapely elfette eager to scrub me under a hot shower.",
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},
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"text": "I hardly wanted my elfette laid up for the rest of her stay.",
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},
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"text": "He reached for something generic and the elfette gave a little gasp",
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},
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"ref": "2014, Revolving Doors: The True Account of the Full Spectrum of Fostering Abuses, page 170",
"text": "Before I know it, my time with Santa is over, and the diminutive, green, elfette lady is lifting me down off Santa's expansive knees.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, James Wynbrandt, The Excruciating History of Dentistry, page 273",
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},
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},
{
"ref": "2019, Lani Lynn Vale, Quit Your Pitchin, page 109",
"text": "the Elf who was now starting to resemble recently getting out of the shower elfette, and not clean and dry elfette.",
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