Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scolding; a severe reprimand or re-proof.
- Thorough-going; active; energetic; stirring; bustling.
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We hope that continued research will provide solutions to even the challenges of beneficiation that we are facing ''; ownership equity targets it is equally envisaging a through-going transformation of the sector and entrance of the new players through the implementation of ownership equity targets.
Index 2004
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Had Inneraora been a walled town, impregnable, say, as a simple Swabian village with a few sconces and redoubts, and a few pieces of cannon, we old soldiers would have counselled the holding of it against all comers; but it was innocently open to the world, its back windows looking into the fields, its through-going wynds and closes leading frankly to the highway.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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The wind moaning in the through-going closes expressed a sense of desolation.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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Mr. Lincoln's nomination was nearly unanimous, only the State of Missouri opposing him; but of the more earnest and through-going Republicans in both Houses of
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
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To through-going anti-slavery men this seemed like an apology for the war, and a most ill-timed revival of the policy of conciliation, which had been so uniformly and contemptuously spurned by the enemy.
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
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They were tall lands or tenements, three storeys high, with through-going closes, or what the
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Although I had zealously supported him in the canvass, and was strongly impressed by the grasp of thought and aptness of expression which marked his great debate with Douglas, yet as a through-going Free Soiler and a member of the radical wing of Republicanism, my prepossessions were against him.
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
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Lifland explained why the safe harbor doesn't apply to a broker that is a through-going fraud.
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"Then factor in the geo-hazard and the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where construction is cinder block and concrete with no through-going steel."
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"Then factor in the geo-hazard and the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where construction is cinder block and concrete with no through-going steel."
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