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A flattery I deem this to be and of an ignoble sort,
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Mend'em concluded the play by adding to Old Worthy that I lives at the sign of the sauce-pan, and if you have kettles to mend, or any thing of that sort,
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Periplectomines, that good personate old man, delicium senis, well understood this in Plautus: for when Pleusides exhorted him to marry that he might have children of his own, he readily replied in this sort,
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And then with another kiss, and very few more words of any sort,
The Three Clerks 2004
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I expect she was a great heiress as well as a great beauty, and people of that sort,
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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And she was left at his death with three children in a wild and remote district where I happened to be at the time; and she was left in such hopeless poverty that, although I have seen many ups and downs of all sort,
Crime and Punishment 2002
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They frequently enter blood vessels or lymph channels and, coming loose within, are borne along on their fluid, to lodge in distant organs and there form secondary tumors of the same sort,
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Negatively, that they were not of the former sort,
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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His nose was like a mushroom of the foreign button sort,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 Various
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The plants of the true variety have short stalks, occupy but little space, and seldom fail to produce a well-formed, and, for an early sort,
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