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  • ...Are all women alike with you?

    Yes; I could have answered; 'bating the difference which pride makes.

    Lady Sarah Sadleir and Lovelace (as related by him to Belford), Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    December 18, 2007

  • ...for now she is as much too lively, as before she was too stupid; and, 'bating that she has pretty frequent lucid intervals, would be deemed raving mad, and I should be obliged to confine her.

    Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    December 18, 2007

  • For abating. See also bating.

    December 18, 2007