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Examples
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To make it a perfectly fashionable and up-to-date delivery it would have been entirely out of place to consult the unsophisticated girl who was thrown in to make the title good.
A Fool and His Money George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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The land was occupied by a widow and her only son, and she supposed her title good.
Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886
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Which makes me think of your - literature is good writing, depending on what anyone calls good.
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For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.
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Louise couldn't speak so of herself: first place, because it wouldn't be true; next place, she couldn't, if it were; and lastly, she made her beauty by growing a soul in her eyes, I suppose, -- what you call good.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.
Story of the Door 1921
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In the light of history, there is always progress or improvement, but in individual cases there is often the reverse, and so far as the individual is concerned evil is no imaginary metaphor, but as real and absolute as what we call good.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.
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In the light of history, there is always progress or improvement, but in individual cases there is often the reverse, and so far as the individual is concerned evil is no imaginary metaphor, but as real and absolute as what we call good.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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