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And of course they have even more today, because they were so good at raising money and they weren’t spending very much.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
Alden added: "Shoreham is the sort of place where the community comes together at times like this. We are a very close-knit community."
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“This rocket turning up is something very different.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
However, a positive reaction to the announcement in the bond market reversed course the very next day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Phineas's tamping iron is very smooth to the touch, smooth from the blacksmith's forge as well as from constant use.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Is there a verier child than I am now?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives
How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne
There is something uncanny about the way the veriest trifles in the "well-constructed" novel fit into the relentless pattern of the whole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Facing the veriest day of her young life this week, Luci was clearly determined to savor every precious moment of it, public and private.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veriest dauber knows about dynamic symmetry which is, in a sense, geometry in art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such loss as did accrue was shared in and averaged among the whole community, making it the veriest trifle upon any individual.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
