Example Sentences

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Why, John, I am sorting out the dresses that are nice enough for London.

From The Measure of a Man by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

When it comes to selecting her ancestors she is still human, natural, vain, commonplace—as commonplace as I am myself when I am sorting ancestors for my autobiography.

From Christian Science by Twain, Mark