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all by one's self





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"It's so lonesome all by one's self, Dodd."

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Harry Bates

Some of my readers may have experienced what a dull and discouraging thing it is to do business all by one's self in the town of Education.

From The Crown of Success by A. L. O. E.

This room will be rather dismal all by one's self, and I don't know how I'm to go about, up and down, fetch and carry, and work as you are able to do....

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

That is a beautiful book," she said, "and to read it all by one's self must be lovely.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various

It is better to go slow, to wait, to get information bit by bit and all by one's self.

From Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois




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