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  • Fielding's Joseph Andrews (London, 1742), 'A Dissertation concerning high People and low People ... ':' these two Parties, especially those bordering nearly on each other, to-wit the lowest of the High, and the highest of the Low, often change their Parties according to Place and Time; for those who are People of Fashion in one place, are often People of no

    Letter 423 2009

  • My former agent sued my then-agent, a quondam employee of the former agent, for poaching me (and sundry other young writers) from his agency and for stealing confidential information (to-wit: my phone number, otherwise available from the phone directory).

    Archive 2009-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • My former agent sued my then-agent, a quondam employee of the former agent, for poaching me (and sundry other young writers) from his agency and for stealing confidential information (to-wit: my phone number, otherwise available from the phone directory).

    Judicial Humor Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • For the listener, it's great on so many levels: 1. It gives you something extra to ponder, to-wit, the meaning of the song title, and how it ties in with the lyrics.

    For What It's Worth . . . Harris 2009

  • Melcon, the divinity of the thousand women in the seraglio of Solomon; to-wit, seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • He informed me in no uncertain terms what the rules of the road had changed in the 21st Century, to-wit: 1. White people can call other white people "nigga".

    "That's what happens when you interrupt the white man!" Ann Althouse 2006

  • What makes that story doubly funny is her explanation of why she wrote it, to-wit: "Everybody kept asking me why I didn't write about women's issues, so I said, fine, I'll write about the women's issue."

    Archive 2005-09-01 Holly 2005

  • What makes that story doubly funny is her explanation of why she wrote it, to-wit: "Everybody kept asking me why I didn't write about women's issues, so I said, fine, I'll write about the women's issue."

    gentlemen, avert your eyes Holly 2005

  • For the Doones being lazy and fond of bed, as the manner is of dishonest folk, the surest way to escape them was to travel before they were up and about, to-wit, in the forenoon of the day.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Article shall, for all purposes of this Resolution, and of any resolution supplemental hereto, have the meanings herein specified, and the following definitions shall be equally applicable both to the singular and plural forms of any of the terms herein defined, to-wit

    Board of Visitors minutes 1960

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