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of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language. As when the total kindMilton. None of noble sortShak. Sort Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.Sir I. Newton. Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.Bacon. She sorts things present with things past.Sir J. Davies. That he may sort out a worthy spouse.Chapman. I'll sort some other time to visit you.Shak. I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.Shak. Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.Woodward. The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.Bacon. They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.Bacon. Things sort not to my will.herbert. I can not tell you precisely how they sorted.Sir W. Scott. Sortable Sortably Sortal |
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