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weal
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Definition:1. well-being, prosperity2. a welt from a blow
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"His ideals are despotic too," he said, laughing, and biting a peach. "Ordinary mortals think of their neighbour— me, you, man in fact— if they work for the common weal. To Von Koren men are puppets and nonentities, too trivial to be the object of his life.
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories
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and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to manage, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Our difference of opinion amounts to this, that you make the mainspring self-interest, while I suppose that interest in the common weal is bound to exist in every man of a certain degree of advancement. "
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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I could certainly feel it, and see it as well when I spread the thick hair aside; a six-inch weal of freshly healed scar tissue, still pink and slightly raised.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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the western sky was an angry pinkish-red, like a bright weal of burnflesh.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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A broad wheal from an old scar ran right across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a perpetual snarl.
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