Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
lief .
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Examples
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Most people approach their to-do list like it's a box of chocolates (and not in the somewhat endearing Forest Gump "lefe is leke a bax o 'chokolates" way.)
Karen Leland: What Pez Candy And Time Management Have In Common 2009
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All American W-2 workers should quit working for several weeks/months and cut off DC's lefe blood, taxes.
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'Go pype in an ivy lefe,' Monsieur Mustard-seed, or 'blow the bukkes' horne. '
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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QUOTATION: Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.
Quotations 1919
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From the time of the expiration of the Britifh treaty of 1794, and the refufai to renew it, the American cabinet have been care, fill to precede negotiation with fome circumftance or other, cal - culated to make it fail, or at leaft to make a fuccefsful refult lefe certain.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The exclufive privileges of corporations, fta» tutes of apprenticeship, and all thofe laws which reftrain, in particular employments, the compe - tition to a finaller number than might otherwife go into them, have the fame tendency, though in a lefe degree.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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Toon fliortened the diftance between them, feeling almoft impelled to chide the faithful, fellow for evincing lefe - eagernels than himfelC
Mysteries elucidated [by A.M. Mackenzie]. Anna Maria Mackenzie 1795
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If in that feafon they are weaker in the evening, it is becaufe they are the no£tumal futons which come from the oppofite iide of the pole, and difcharge themfelves into the fojiirpes of the Atlantic, in t fpiral and in » lefe quantity.
Theory of tides, tr. [extr. from Études de la nature]. Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre 1795
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Now walks mute Midnight, darkiiflf •*k, and cloud the cheerlefs eye» vli the fwift tear, and heave the frequent ligb: lefe reach the heart, and bid the health decline;
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If the feftion be an hyperbola, VH being lefs than VP, or PR, and consequently lefe tnan NL, N££i$ lefs than the, fetni-ordinate.
A Short Treatise on the Conic Sections: In which the Three Curves are Derived from a General ... 1794
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