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- adverb In an
unrhetorical fashion.
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Examples
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I mean more particularly that I remained sober during the day -- that is, sober enough to keep it from being known that I had drank more than once or twice; but that night at the ball at Louisville, I bit the dust, or, to get at the truth more literally and unrhetorically, I fell down stairs and came within a point of breaking my neck.
Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson
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I mean more particularly that I remained sober during the day ” that is, sober enough to keep it from being known that I had drank more than once or twice; but that night at the ball at Louisville, I bit the dust, or, to get at the truth more literally and unrhetorically, I fell down stairs and came within a point of breaking my neck.
Fifteen Years in Hell Benson, Luther 1885
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