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Great Expectations vocabulary
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by dint of
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Definition:by means of
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"Queequeg!— in the name of goodness, Queequeg, wake!" At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm,
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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He was a big man, fit and solid, the sort you so often see booming out their opinions in pubs, bearing down the opposition by dint of loudness and repetition.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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But after Currado had, at her instance, called off his dogs, they prevailed with her, by dint of much entreaty, to tell them who she was and what she did there;
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron: sixth story
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Flopson, by dint of doubling the baby at the joints like a Dutch doll, then got it safely into Mrs. Pocket's lap, and gave it the nut-crackers to play with;
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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