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I also recall vividly the nudging and grinning that went on when I spoke in the Morganville, Kansas, town hall one night and came out with "to-mah-to" instead of "ta-mayta," and got equally careless with my "eithers" and "neithers."
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- GOP eithers win the House back in a big wave (60+ seats) or falls a few seats short (33-37 seats won).
The 2010 RedState predictions thread. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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But all I see is some poor lame excuse for a news person fighting eithers this actor or one of these frauds in a thirty secound sound bite so they can get more ratings I guess.
What’s Been Missing From This Presidential Campaign? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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I certainly think that Bush should not act giddy about Lebanon anymore eithers.
Thursday, August 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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Wherefore, finding himselfe to be as faulty as the Monke, and that hee could not shame him, but worthily had deserved as much himselfe; pardoning him, and imposing silence on eithers offence: they convayed the poore abused Damosell forth of their doores, she purposing (never after) to transgresse in the like manner.
The Decameron 2004
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The appointed night being come, and neither of these hot Lovers knowing the others intent, but their suspition being alike, and encreasing still more and more; they made choyce of certaine friends and associates, well armed and provided, for eithers safer entrance when need should require.
The Decameron 2004
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There was a narrow passage or entrie, as often we see reserved betweene two houses, for eithers benefit to such a needfull place; and boards loosely lay upon the joynts, which such as were acquainted withall, could easily avoide any perille in passing to or from the stoole.
The Decameron 2004
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Every mans look shew'd, fed with eithers spirit; 45
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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He that sees thee offend, and tells thee not of thy fault, eithers flatters thee for favour, or dares not displease thee for fear.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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Further, the motions of the Glass and Tool do so cross each other, that there is not one point of eithers Surface, but has thousands of cross motions thwarting it, so that there can be no kind of
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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