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  • And there was one way-on a horse that would not tire, would not stop, and would run faster than poor Sunset ever dreamed of doing.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Because it took 12 steps to upload a single document, most agents gave up and did everything the old-fashioned way-on paper.

    Dangerous Disgrace 2007

  • Kate couldn't remember the last time she'd felt this way-on fire, burning with an all-consuming desire.

    Laying His Claim Barton, Beverly 2004

  • "We clean floors the old-fashioned way-on our hands and knees" (emphasis added), the brochure for a competing firm boasts.

    Nickel and Dimed Ehrenreich, Barbara 2001

  • Now I would have to get the answers the hard way-on the trip home.

    Bitter Gold Hearts Cook, Glen 1988

  • The reason is that spiritual achievement furthers mankind on its way-on that way which we must infer to be the way of a trend hidden in events, whether that trend be enforced by a divine will or inherent in a process which we have come to call evolution.

    Nationhood Within the Empire 1929

  • Put it another way-on the eastern side of the Blakensberg you could feed 30 sheep on one acre of ground, and on the far side it would take 30 acres to feed one sheep.

    South Africa 1924

  • Birrell has touched lightly-very lightly, but in not an uncomplimentary way-on my position in this world as a moralist.

    Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910

  • By some accident it happened that the sedan, which had been hired in haste, broke down, and the prince was obliged to proceed the remainder of the way-on foot.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • By some accident it happened that the sedan, which had been hired in haste, broke down, and the prince was obliged to proceed the remainder of the way-on foot.

    The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

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