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  • 'I belong to an unlucky generation swung between the old world and the new, and I find myself ill at ease in both.' and perhaps the Sicilian outlook on the harbingers (my word of the moment) of change not that different from the rest of us if we are truly honest,

    46 entries from January 2008 2008

  • 'I belong to an unlucky generation swung between the old world and the new, and I find myself ill at ease in both.' and perhaps the Sicilian outlook on the harbingers (my word of the moment) of change not that different from the rest of us if we are truly honest,

    The Leopard 2008

  • 'I belong to an unlucky generation swung between the old world and the new, and I find myself ill at ease in both.' and perhaps the Sicilian outlook on the harbingers (my word of the moment) of change not that different from the rest of us if we are truly honest,

    The Leopard 2008

  • While I wish that the Obama administration were being more honest,

    Things Falling Off the Table - Economy 2009

  • [3879] If I feed liberally, I am likely sick or surfeit: if I live sparingly my hunger and thirst is not allayed; I am well neither full nor fasting; if I live honest,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tonight on "360," a ride through the air to kill the fire's blow, we'll take you on a navy water dumping mission and some are questioning whether it's too little too late, we are keeping them honest,

    CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2007 2007

  • Like her, I have a role to play, and to be honest,

    Beach Road Patterson, James, 1947- 2006

  • The overwhelming majority of policemen and women were honest,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Now I'm jest a-goin 'to let daylight into that little knowledge-box o' yourn, an 'fill it with good, wholesome idees, clean up to the brim, an' runnin 'over, -- good, honest,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • When I see a character standing to-day above all reproach, compacted through many years of manly, honest,

    Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

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