Usage examples for demure
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I had a demure little face, but it looked upon me from the glass less sorrowfully than I had seen it since my mother's death. – Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. Stephens
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He had left a demure Quakeress with Peggy, and returned to find this beautiful, radiant girl. – Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison
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Demure in it she looked, like an agreeable reminiscence, alive, and a little up- to- date, of the women of long ago. – The Beetle A Mystery by Richard Marsh