Example Sentences

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Divided Athens, divided Greece, like some big, lax, self-neglectful person would be an easy prey to any well-knit adversary really at unity in himself.

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter

He was so absorbed in science as to be self-neglectful.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri