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“Passably, madam,” answered Wayland; “he hath at least no bodily complaint.”
Kenilworth 2004
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"Passably handsome -- yellow eyes, reddish hair, one eye wanders."
Don Orsino 1881
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Passably pretty girls, who may, with care, make themselves often more than passable, have far the hardest of it with their consciences about these things; and Leslie had a conscience, and was reflective for her age, -- and we have seen how questions had begun to trouble her.
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"Passably well," said I. "It lies toward the edge of the claret country; but it grows astonishing claret.
News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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