Example Sentences

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There was no fal-lal about love, and all that, with him.

From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Trollope, Anthony

There's never been any fal-lal between us about love, and duty, and all that.

From The Small House at Allington by Trollope, Anthony

The women are comely and sturdy, able to take care of themselves, without any fal-lal of chivalry, and the men are sedate, obliging, and industrious.

From North America — Volume 1 by Trollope, Anthony

The family-plate too, in such quantities, of two or three generations standing, must not be changed, because his precious child,* humouring his old fal-lal taste, admired it, to make it all her own.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Richardson, Samuel

"I tell you he recognized you by that chiffon fal-lal you wear!"

From Barnaby A Novel by Ramsay, R.