after a sort
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Instead of being carried by Laud to Rome, we remained Protestants after a sort, though without liberty of conscience.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
The matter has magnitude, too, after a sort.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
He had a school training after a sort, but his best teachers were the boys with whom he played, the men amongst whom he lived.
From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.
But as I looked at him, his lips unbent and his face shone down at me, after a sort, with love, and tenderness and pleasure.
From Daisy in the Field by Warner, Susan
She graunted after a sort, but referred all to the Lord of Canterbury.
From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John
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