Example Sentences

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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 Marshall, Florence A. Thomas