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Wuthering Heights vocabulary
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meet
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synonyms: ~fadge ???
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And when one of them says to the maid (all in white at this hour, as is meet): “This is not my jam—I had more,” I quake at the conception of the superhuman force which restrains the awful bitterness in her voice.
Arnold Bennett. Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People (1913)
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"There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want."
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.198 (2004)
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"How meet it is that you should come to us on the bright red pumper of a volunteer fire department. I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine. [...]"
Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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There were no wolves now. Tonight they had stayed away—it was meet and right that they should have done. It was, after all, his wedding night,
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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he even explained to [him] that the Lord sometimes prolonged the life of persons when he thought it meet for their salvation
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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here nurse Quigley from the door angerly bid them hist ye should shame you nor was it not meet as she remembered them being her mind was to have all orderly against lord Andrew
James Joyce. Ulysses
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‘“It is not meet,”’ said Mr. Micawber, rising, ‘“that every nice offence should bear its comment!” Emma, I stand reproved.’
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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If thou say to me, "physician, heal thyself", I answer that I am meetly well-purged of that disease, and yet was I never more willing to cure myself than to comfort my friend.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Iago: Farewell; for I must leave you:
It seems not meet nor wholesome to my place
To be produc'd,—as if I stay I shall,—
Against the Moor:
WIlliam Shakespeare. Othello (1603)
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I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death; the weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me.
William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
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There’s a pack o’ corn i’ t’ corner, thear, meeterly clane; if ye’re feared o’ muckying yer grand silk cloes, spread yer hankerchir o’ t’ top on’t.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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