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  • One or two gentlemen went by on horses -- Achnatra and Major Hall and the through-other son of Lorn

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • Advena's occupation to some extent absorbed her shortcomings, which was much better than having to attribute them to her being naturally "through-other," or naturally clever, according to the bias of the moment.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • It is the speech form of through-other, in which shape it eludes pursuit in the Oxford dictionary.

    Notes 1918

  • There were tired, untidy women, overrun by circumstances, with that look about them which the Scotch call "through-other."

    The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • It is the speech form of _through-other_, in which shape it eludes pursuit in the Oxford dictionary.

    Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866

  • "through-other," which again is the Scottish synonym for a kind of amalgam of addled and harum-scarum.

    Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

  • There's Sandy, his son, a through-other lad (though I aye liked the laddie and he's young yet), and his daughter back from her schooling in Edinburgh, educated, or polished, or finished off as they call it -- I hope she kens what she's to be after next, for I'm sure her father does not. "

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

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