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Till We Have Faces choose

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[UK] C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces 292: Why, every wheedling, smiling, catfoot rogue who lures away another man’s wife or slave or dog might say the same.
at cat-footed, adj.
[UK] C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces 232: [S]he could laugh loud and drink deep like a man and a warrior, next moment, more madly, answering to Trunia’s daffing.
at daffing, n.
[UK] C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces 33: She had always been feather-headed and now grew wanton.
at feather-headed, adj.
[UK] C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces 147: However things might go, whatever the price, by her death or mine or a thousand deaths, by fronting the gods ‘beard to beard’ as the soldiers say.
at front, v.1
[UK] C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces 267: ‘Does he mean to slug abed for the rest of his life?’.
at slug, v.3
[UK] C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces 280: [P]ouring of wine and pouring of blood, and dancing and feasting and towsing of girls.
at towze, v.
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