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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fellow-creature; especially, any member of the human race as compared or contrasted with any other.

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  • “A debate on the ostracism of a fellow-being will bring almost any man to a Committee meeting; and the attendance included some never before known to come.”

    Flowering Wilderness

  • “Did she want to drive her fellow-being the Associate”

    Look Back on Happiness

  • “Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.”

    James Knox Polk: Inaugural Address

  • “I wonder if it is uncharitable to compare a fellow-being to Satan.”

    Unnatural Death

  • “Pulling in all his extensions, he shot a tight beam to a fellow-being, Litosa by symbol, and tuned his mind precisely to hers.”

    Masters Of The Vortex

  • “The responsibility of having so important an office to fulfil towards any fellow-being as that of sharing in, influencing, and being influenced by all his wishes, actions, and tendencies, has felt very serious.”

    A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England

  • “From that moment I felt I had a motive left to cherish life, since my existence could be useful to a fellow-being -- my wanderings finished, and I settled in Alsace.”

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

  • “If there be any kindness we can show, or any good thing we can do to any fellow-being, let us do it now.”

    From a Girl's Point of View

  • “In the selfish desire to signalize myself, I had hazarded the life of a fellow-being, and brought upon him weeks of suffering which no act of mine could now alleviate.”

    A Grandmother's Recollections

  • “Let it constantly be borne in mind, that charities are duties well performed, of whatever kind they may be, -- as well the faithful fulfilment of an avocation as the aiding of a suffering fellow-being.”

    The Elements of Character

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