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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
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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
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It is the speech form of through-other, in which shape it eludes pursuit in the Oxford dictionary.
Notes 1918
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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
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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
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"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
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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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