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am steeling

  • present progressive
    of steel (1st person singular).
    steel
    noun
    any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.

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“It’s not that I am steeling myself against disappointment. It is that it’s not based on anything real, and, you know, you can’t live in your own fantasies of what might happen.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2014

I am steeling myself with Plato and Platonics; so now farewell to love and womankind.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall