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Meanings of very essence in English

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Usage of very essence in English
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All around him was China, its very essence and sound and smell.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
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They are indeed the aliment or rather the very essence of love.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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Curtis laughed at the conceit, which was grotesque in its very essence.
One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York
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The very essence of anger is that it is unspirited and automatic.
The Ghost in the White House / Some suggestions as to how a hund...
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He was the very essence of cunning, the incarnation of a book-thief.
Three Articles on Metaphor / Society for Pure English, Tract 11
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This way of looking at things is the very essence of superstition.
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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For differences such as these are of the very essence of wisdom.
Wisdom and Destiny
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That is of the very essence of its alleged derivation from Christ.
Occasional Papers / Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and t...
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Now, with the very essence of its identity disappearing, it inevitably crumpled.
The Guardian
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They are a part of the very essence that was once human.
Darkness revealed
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She swallowed it and continued to drink the very essence of him.
The vampire hunter the vampire hunter the vampire hunter
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We absorb it into that which is integral and immortal-ourvery essence.
A Tramp's Sketches
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Is not this the very essence of local feeling and local regard?
The American Union Speaker
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Everything Thou doest is pure justice, nay, the very essence of grace.
Prayers and Meditations
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A windowless, featureless spike, its façade was the very essence of mundanity.
The Scarlet Gospels
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The spirit in the soul is the very essence of life.
Paris Talks
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