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Well, oily tools and motion-control bras led to a discussion of “survivor fat” which is what I call mine.
Sketchy minutes: It was something like that « knitnut.net 2008
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The breadth of my life is not measured by the multitude of my pursuits, nor the space I take up amongst other men; but by the fulness of the whole life which I know as mine.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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It seems like I spend more of my days trapped in this little box place I call mine.
hope777 Diary Entry hope777 2008
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I used to court a pretty girl, you bet I called her mine.
Dallas County Jail 1996
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I am a fonder and more faithful husband -- and true is this -- but for that wound, never had I called her mine.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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He answered: I too have come to anger with my mother; and if I had cash enough to take me to Rome, I would not turn back to lock the door of that wretched little workshop I call mine.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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He answered: I too have come to anger with my mother; and if I had cash enough to take me to Rome, I would not turn back to lock the door of that wretched little workshop I call mine.
XIII 1909
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Cornelia; self-reliance was the great secret of success and happiness; but I chanced to read the 'Over-soul' soon after, and lo! these words: 'I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.'
Beulah 1872
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You are my mate, the sum of everything I call mine.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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