How To Use Selfsame In A Sentence
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These selfsame strategies are used by the bacteria in their struggle to defeat our best antibiotics.
Boing Boing
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These holders have no idea whether home equity borrowers use proceeds not only to consolidate debt but as a re-entry vehicle into the selfsame debt.
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`The selfsame ," I answered with a slight bow and an earnest smile.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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The selfsame people who sometimes drive you nuts can also be the main ones who can help you live a longer, healthier life and probably help you manage stress better, according to the Alliance for Aging Research.
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Page 109: The term selfsame occurs only once without a hyphen.
The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem
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Then one day towards the completion of the project, he walked upstairs and caught the selfsame builder in the act of explaining to a visitor why ‘we’ had decided to go open plan.
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When the selfsame people asked me in the evenings if I was going home, I had no reply for them: it took me years to reconcile myself to the idea of calling the attic I was living in a home.
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Will doubling aid and channelling it through those selfsame governments change anything?
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saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers
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She said the selfsame thing to me.
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The eight photoreceptors and 12 accessory cells occupy selfsame and stereotyped positions within each unit eye.
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Check out this slightly less adulatory leader from the selfsame paper.
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Old lines about knights at table in the great banquet halls, and of those above the salt and below the salt, and of Vikings feasting fresh from sea and ripe for battle, came to me; and I knew that the old times were not dead and that we belonged to that selfsame ancient breed.
Chapter 16
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Perversely, those selfsame instincts insisted that with him, she was safe.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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He come out of a green-baize door — the very place I can point out to you, and the selfsame door, miss, though false to the accuracy of the mind that knows it, by reason of having been covered up red, and all the brass buttons lost to it in them new-fangled upholsteries.
Erema
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The story writes against sensationalism and sentimentality (showing their falsity and shallowness) even as the plot operates in these selfsame terms.
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But these are the selfsame people who every day for the last six months have been reading about the president's semen on this young girl's dress.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
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Best of all was the selfsame Evil CIA Lady's withering "You're the best England's got?" followed by Gwen's right hook as she points out: "I'm Welsh.
Torchwood: Miracle Day – episode two
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In cases such as yours," they began, "let's speak frankly, in cases of ... amputation, it is not uncommon to encounter the selfsame itches, burns, ticklishness shooting as before from the direction of the ... amputee.
Bradley Burston: A Place at the Passover Table - for Pharoah
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The other day, I started writing this selfsame blog post.
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To a degree, this reflects the fact that many of those scientists are the selfsame religious individuals described above.
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She went to her death in the name of the selfsame god your royal father sought to placate with her blood.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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These structures are severally infundibuliform processes, so fashioned by the original descent of the testicle; and, therefore, as the bowel follows the track of the testicle, it becomes, of course, invested by the selfsame parts in the selfsame manner.
Surgical Anatomy
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Check out this slightly less adulatory leader from the selfsame paper.
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The men and cows, the hens, horses and sheep are of the selfsame order as those which the American school boy draws upon his slate, but there is abundant evidence of close observation, of a humor far keener and broader than the power of expression which bodies it forth.
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Later, descendants of these selfsame clerics would carry their precious cargo to European monasteries where the Italian, the German and the Frenchman waited to be enlightened.
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Many, however, are the selfsame people who reviled and ridiculed the Celtic chief executive throughout his five years.
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Yes, "antisocialist," but note also that these rights, in the selfsame clause, are called
The Nation: Top Stories
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These selfsame Bengals pasted a very respectable Denver team.
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It is a great task to transmute feeling and sensation into speech, written or spoken, that will, in turn, in him who reads or listens, transmute itself back into the selfsame feeling and sensation.
Chapter 14
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Those selfsame horses were slow and sedate but got things done in their own good time.
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Second, Abelard undertakes to establish that contraries will be present not merely in the genus but even in the selfsame individual.
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The critique, I contend, often commits the selfsame mistakes that have become an almost accepted characterisation of anthropological practice.
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The eight photoreceptors and 12 accessory cells occupy selfsame and stereotyped positions within each unit eye.
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The same clerk who helps you buy lug wrenches can help you with baby clothes and computers, with the selfsame lack of knowledge of all the products.
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I could prove in a second that she's my daughter - the books on the car floor, the busted pinwheel under the seat, the diaper bag, the camcorder with miles of footage of this selfsame child in my lap at our home.
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This house proposes that we not sully the memory of a parent, least of all one who sends a judder through a child, unleashing rather that selfsame, satin-lined grizzly, that selfsame man-eater whose breath is furring the windshield.
The Windshield
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When the selfsame people asked me in the evenings if I was going home, I had no reply for them: it took me years to reconcile myself to the idea of calling the attic I was living in a home.
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As luck would have it, Champneys' PR adviser was the selfsame Mr Wallis.
Sir Paul Stephenson's resignation: Sir Paul's Parthian shot | Editorial
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There is further the case in which a writer, when relating something about a person, suddenly breaks off and converts himself into that selfsame person.
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