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Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied. "The construction of highways and other public works" , "He asked for other employment" , "Any other person would tell the truth" , "His other books are still in storage" , "Then we looked at the other house" , "Hearing was good in his other ear" , "The other sex" , "She lived on the other side of the street from me" , "Went in the other direction"

Recently past.

Belonging to the distant past. Synonyms: early, former. "Former generations" , "In other times"

Very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected.

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... begins thus: "There is the law of heredity: like produces like. But why is there such a law? Why does like produce like?... Physical science cannot answer these questions; but that is no reason why they should not both be asked and answered. I can conceive of no other intelligent answer being given to them than that there is a God of wisdom, who designed that the world should be for all ages the abode ...

— A Candid Examination of Theism • George John Romanes

... me any other way, I dare say I'd have chucked it away in a month. It wouldn't have seemed worth saving. But I was sort of sentimental about poor old Haslett and his feeling for me. I didn't care to lump his money in with what I got in my line of life. I made a ...

— The Second Latchkey • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... unguarded question had awakened his suspicions of me, so I made haste to remark that I had not realized how quickly I had travelled, adding that I might have known there was no other town ...

— The Motor Pirate • George Sidney Paternoster

... things looked to our Lord when he came and found so little faith on the earth! But, perhaps, my lady, you would not pity my present condition so much, if you had seen the cottage in which I was born, and where my father and my mother loved each other, and died happier than on their wedding day. There I was happy too until their loving ambition decreed that I should be a scholar and a clergyman. Not before then did I ever know anything worthy of the name of trouble. A little cold and a little hunger at ...

— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald

... considers them with tender and shining eyes, he culls them his sweetest fancies and his fondest metaphors. Their idea is inseparable from that of his girls themselves, and it is by the means of the one set of mistresses that he is able so well to understand the other. The flowers are maids to him, and the maids are flowers. In an ecstasy of tender contemplation he turns from those to these, exampling Julia from the rose and pitying the hapless violets as though they ...

— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley

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