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Examples
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More than one inquiring-minded patron split his sandwich to add sight to taste, but few could be sure of the flavorsome contents, fatless, gritless, smooth and even, covering the entire surface, the last mouthful as perfect as the first.
What Diantha Did Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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Away in the background some of them had familiars or casual prompters to whose counsels they were wont to listen, but many of the adjoints who moved in the limelight of the world-stage were gritless and pithless.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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Since the departure of Jean Chrétien, who knew something about politics being a blood sport, the Liberals have become a party of pushovers, gritless Grits.
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Since the departure of Jean Chrétien, who knew something about politics being a blood sport, the Liberals have become a party of pushovers, gritless Grits.
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