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1 To sum the matter , circumstance had thrown up a very noble species.
2 To sum the matter up, in closing, I wish to state definitely and clearly a few objections to nationalistic socialism that seem to me fatal.
3 Ruskin once summed the matter up by saying, Obey thy conscience!
4 He summed the matter up thus, and, as if answering her last remark, said:
5 "Not one of the 'Ladies,"' the duke was mentally summing the matter up.
6 Dr. George McLean Harper, in his lately published study of Sainte-Beuve, has summed the matter up admirably, in speaking of The Book of Love:
7 We give the following as a direct proof to the contrary-onethat has the authority of Lord Hamlet, who summed the matter up in three
8 " Summing the matter all up, pro and con," he offered, "it do interfere with their game a lot.
9 "She regards me with marked antipathy, as she did when she first saw me," he summed the matter up.
10 "A simple-minded people, basically good-humored," was the way the doctor summed the matter up when reporting what he had seen.
11 "Well, you did your best," she summed the matter up at last, "if you went down on your knees involuntarily.
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