almosts

Will I send the fantasy story that's seen many edits, and that's been around a few places and collected three 'almosts' from some very highly-respected magazines?

mikandra: further to my previous post mikandra 2010

Will I send the fantasy story that's seen many edits, and that's been around a few places and collected three 'almosts' from some very highly-respected magazines?

decisions, decisions mikandra 2010

And "almosts" or "attempts" do not, and have never, generated as much alarm in human beings as "it happened."

Is it O.K. to fire White guys? Steven Barnes 2009

What family, anywhere, has ever reacted to "almosts" as much as they did the actual incident?

Is it O.K. to fire White guys? Steven Barnes 2009

Although I've had a couple of "almosts," so I know they're not TOTAL crap.

I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do Editorial Anonymous 2009

The two 'almosts' are, moreover, significant signs of the demonic, for fiends could not predict the future with absolute accuracy.

The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four 1997

But the "almosts" were obstinate; the nearly had never become the quite; she did not tell herself that it never could; on the contrary she recognised (though here she was inclined to shirk the probe) that if she married another, she might well awake to find herself loving Marchmont; she knew that she would not like Marchmont to love another woman.

Quisanté Anthony Hope 1898

There was a charm in his "almosts" that was not to be resisted, especially after Mr. Verver and Maggie had grown sure -- or almost, again -- of enjoying the monopoly of them; and on this basis of envy changed to sympathy by the more familiar view of the father and the daughter, Mr. Crichton had at both houses, though especially in

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

There was a charm in his "almosts" that was not to be resisted, especially after Mr. Verver and Maggie had grown sure -- or almost, again -- of enjoying the monopoly of them; and on this basis of envy changed to sympathy by the more familiar view of the father and the daughter, Mr. Crichton had at both houses, though especially in

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

There was a charm in his "almosts" that was not to be resisted, especially after Mr. Verver and Maggie had grown sure -- or almost, again -- of enjoying the monopoly of them; and on this basis of envy changed to sympathy by the more familiar view of the father and the daughter, Mr. Crichton had at both houses, though especially in

The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879