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• “He spoke in tolerably good English – different from our coarse, broad,”

  John Halifax, Gentleman

• “They should be grown in tolerably rich soil, but which has been enriched with decayed leaves rather than animal manure; as, when they are manured with dung, they are very apt to produce what are called water shoots or gourmands, that is, strong vigorous shoots without any blossom buds.”

  The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally

• “By degrees hay should be mingled with their food, and the quantity of this should be gradually increased while that of the grass is diminished; some carrots cut in tolerably thick slices and a few grains being given occasionally, till the cows have become accustomed to their dry food.”

  The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally

• “For my own part, I have to say that I find the idea tolerably convincing.”

  Who is John Twelve Hawks?

• “His muzzle, shaped something like a duck's bill, nevertheless formed Paula's name tolerably well.”

  The Stars, My Brothers

• “Good night; and thank you, Patty," called a tolerably cheerful voice from under the covers.”

  When Patty Went to College

• “The cries of a dog when beaten often exhibit the same peculiarity; so, too, the puppy, before he has attained skill in barking, will often prolong each utterance in a way which makes its relation to the ancient mode of expression tolerably clear.”

  Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization

• “While in this temper, as he was taking a solitary walk in the evening, and, to divert his melancholy, was flinging the stones that lay in his path against each other, he happened to break a tolerably large one, and out of it jumped a toad.”

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• “Brady's Island is well wooded, and all the river along which our road led to-day, may, in general, be called tolerably well timbered.”

  The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources

• “It was described as a tolerably good sandy road, with so little rock as scarcely to require the animals to be shod; and we found it the roughest and rockiest road we had ever seen in the country, and which nearly destroyed our band of fine mules and horses.”

  The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources

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