Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Entrance; arrival; introduction.
- noun Income; revenue.
- noun Submission; compliance; surrender.
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Examples
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A free course and an easy one, where Francis can roll smoothly where he will, and can choose between the start, or the coming-in, or the turn behind the brow of the hill, or any out-of-the-way point where he lists to see the throbbing horses straining every nerve, and making the sympathetic earth throb as they come by.
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The coming-in of Trottle and the old woman did not startle or disturb him in the least.
A House to Let 2007
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But even now, we have a melancholy pleasure in it: just such a one, as the sorrowing friends of the desperate sick experience, on the coming-in of a long-expected physician, al-though they are in a manner hopeless of his success.
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I guess that is what I get for coming-in in the middle.
"Endless diversity" in bacterial genomes? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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That splendid music, the coming-in music -- "The Elephant March" from Aida -- is the music I've chosen for my funeral -- and you can see why.
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That splendid music, the coming-in music -- "The Elephant March" from Aida -- is the music I've chosen for my funeral -- and you can see why.
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That splendid music, the coming-in music -- "The Elephant March" from Aida -- is the music I've chosen for my funeral -- and you can see why.
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Which distance exceeding a sabbath-day's journey, the poor, before the coming-in of the sabbath, contained themselves within the bounds of Arumah; that, the morning following, they might betake themselves to the houses of those that distributed their charity, and not break the sabbath.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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There was a simple coming-in for one woman acting at Brooklyn on her birthday!
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Over each door shall hang one of the lithographed angel-heads of the San Sisto, to watch our going-out and coming-in; and the glorious
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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