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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Formal
 
  Formal and precise, like rooms which we enter and leave, not those in which we settle and dwell.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  1
  Formal … as the veil of a nun.
            —Henry James		  2
  Formal as a Quaker.
            —George P. Morris		  3
 
 
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