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  •   "I already rented th'other room to 'nother feller, but he won't move in till Monday or Tuesday."

    Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone 2010

  • Leon whispered to Bear Man, "That guy, th'other day?"

    The Coffin Dancer Deaver, Jeffery 1998

  • The good Orator vseth a manner of speach in his perswasion and is when all that should seeme to make against him being spoken by th'other side, he will first admit it, and in th'end auoid all for his better aduantage, and this figure is much vsed by our English pleaders in the Starchamber and

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Where ye see this word _course_, and _dye_, vsed in diuers sences, one giuing the _Rebounde_ vpon th'other.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Yet will the one be but a dwarfe, th'other a giant still.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Nor in speaches with them to be too long, or too much affected, for th'one is tedious th'other is irksome, nor with lowd acclamations to applaude them, for that is too popular & rude and betokens either ignoraunce, or seldome accesse to their presence, or little frequenting their Courts: nor to shew too mery or light a countenance, for that is a signe of little reuerence and is a peece of a contempt.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • In like sort the mynde for the things that be his mentall obiectes hath his good graces and his bad, whereof th'one contents him wonderous well, th'other displeaseth him continually, no more nor no lesse then ye see the discords of musicke do to a well tuned eare.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • And in speaking to a Prince the voyce ought to be lowe and not lowde nor shrill, for th'one is a signe of humilitie th'other of too much audacitie and presumption.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • For now the sharpe accent falles vpon _bo_, and so doth it vpon the last in _restóre_, which was not in th'other verse.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • In all things to vse decencie, is it onely that giueth euery thing his good grace & without which nothing in mans speach could seeme good or gracious, in so much as many times it makes a bewtifull figure fall into deformitie, and on th'other side a vicious speach seeme pleasaunt and bewtifull: this decencie is therfore the line & leuell for al good makers to do their busines by.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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