self-same

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Two little seeds—you scarce could tell One from the other—both brown and round, Planted, that day by the self-same hand In the mellow depths of the self same ground.

From Nestlings A Collection of Poems by Weller, Ella Fraser

“I’ve heard that very self same tune in barber shops.”

From The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills by Garis, Lillian

And since these self same little things cannot be dispensed with, is it not better that they should be done in the easiest, and at the same time the pleasantest manner possible?

From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

He is paide with the same money that all viceroyes, gouernours, iustices, and captaines of the kingdome are: when they will talke with the president, it is in the self same order.

From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de

And, if I err not, there is sound Scripture for the belief that these self same eminences have capacity to skip for joy.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose