after a sort
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Endurance, industry, a negative purity, thrift, integrity—these can live, and do live, after a sort, on a plain and scanty diet, and these, as we know, abound in New England.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
Work! well, I suppose so, after a sort.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Their life was not profound nor high, but still it was life after a sort.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
He had a school training after a sort, but his best teachers were the boys with whom he played, the men amongst whom he worked, the friends and relatives with whom he lived.
From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Samuel Smiles
Dinner found his host in no better humour, and after a sort of Quakers' meeting of an evening, they parted heartily sick of each other.
From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees
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