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own sake my own unattractive self

She was not pretty like Dinah, or “taking” like Sue; it was very pleasant to be loved for her own sake; “my own unattractive self,” she said.
— from Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline: A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.

of so many of us seem

Certainly there is some ground for the supposition in the fact that the lives of so many of us seem to have been ordered in direct opposition to our individual tastes and wishes.
— from The Curse of Education by Harold Edward Gorst

our shifting millions of uneasy settlers

T HE discovery of the gold mines of California was a signal for enterprise, daring, and achievement, not only to our commerce and the thrift of our shifting millions of uneasy settlers, but also to the literature and landscape-art of the United States.
— from Art in America: A Critical and Historial Sketch by S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler) Benjamin

of so many of us some

To him—a man of substance, with landed property in three counties—the rays of immediate court-favour were probably of less importance than to Chaucer; but it is not necessity only which makes courtiers of so many of us: some are born to the vocation, and Gower strikes one as naturally more prudent and cautious—in short, more of a politic personage—than Chaucer.
— from Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

of sandal made of undressed skin

Cor. ), a sieve for sifting grain, O.E. hrīdder ; rivlin ( Sh. & Or.I. ), a kind of sandal made of undressed skin with the hair outside, O.E. rifeling ; ream ( Sc.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

only slightly mean or ugly subturpiculum

The basis of laughter is therefore to be found in what is only slightly mean or ugly ( subturpiculum ).
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

of six months or until sooner

The town voted that every soldier who shall voluntarily enlist to serve in the Continental Battalions for the space of six months, or until sooner discharged shall be paid four bushels of wheat or an equivalent in money in addition to the bounty already given by the State.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

o six months old ud swab

I guess a down-east baby o’ six months old ’ud swab up that an’ axe for more.”
— from The Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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