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And in the morning she called him to look at something, and this something was a soft, helpless, little, baby giraffe, with delicate limbs and small body, a funny, scraggy, long neck and small head, with the very same sort of gentle, pathetic eyes that Gean herself had And Groar thought it was the very finest baby he had ever seen, and was fonder and prouder of Gean than ever.

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  1. pronoun An undetermined or unspecified thing: "We're all recalling something, furtively seeking something” (Virginia Woolf).
  2. pronoun An unspecified or undetermined amount or extent: We know something about the early settlers in this area.
  3. pronoun One having some or many of the same attributes, character, or essence as another: Trying to fix the computer myself was something of a mistake.

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  • Minori is driven towards something, and she believes that this something is above love for the time being. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • Herein again is where life differs from fire; we can describe combustion in terms of chemistry, but after we have described life in the same terms something--and this something is the main thing--remains untouched The facts of radio-activity alone demonstrate the truth of the atomic theory. —  The Breath of Life
  • It was an illusion, dear friend, all an illusion, all except that, not long ago, I was standing, by the window and doing nothing, and that I am now sitting here and doing something--something which is perhaps little more than nothing, perhaps even less I had written thus far to you about the things I had said to myself, when, in the midst of my tender thoughts and profound feelings about the dramatic connection of our embraces, a coarse and unpleasant occurrence interrupted me. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes
  • And in the morning she called him to look at something, and this something was a soft, helpless, little, baby giraffe, with delicate limbs and small body, a funny, scraggy, long neck and small head, with the very same sort of gentle, pathetic eyes that Gean herself had And Groar thought it was the very finest baby he had ever seen, and was fonder and prouder of Gean than ever. —  Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories
  • I call her Mikawe because that means a little more than Mother in Cree--something that is almost undying and spirit-like. —  God's Country—And the Woman
 

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  1. from Middle English som thing, from Anglo-Saxon sum thing, properly two words: see some and thing.
  2. from something, n.
 

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