Page 109: The term selfsame occurs only once without a hyphen. From Wordnik.com. [The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem] Reference
But the selfsame sounds nightly assailed his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Perishing, in like manner, from the selfsame cause!. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
The selfsame Power that brought me there brought you. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Should she reveal herself in the selfsame light again?. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
Their thirst shall quench both from the selfsame brook. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ind And Other Poems] Reference
But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision] Reference
The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
You to that selfsame oak-trunk, and tanned your unclean hide. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
Might not another, others even, have read the selfsame words?. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
And thou needest not fear for them from the selfsame direction. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
She was the selfsame young lady of the covered head who had but. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
It was not the first time she had listened at that selfsame door. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
Nay, should e'er the fleecy mothers twice within the selfsame year. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
The preesoners waur hustled off to the quarries that selfsame nicht. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
"If Shelby has ridden easy he's somewheres ahead on that selfsame road.". From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
And on that selfsame day did a brood of motherless nestlings do likewise. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
And for the selfsame thing, do you also rejoice and congratulate with me. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 57: Philippians The Challoner Revision] Reference
In whatsoever manner men come to me, in the selfsame manner do I accept them. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
At the selfsame moment the clock on the mantelpiece chimed the hour of midnight. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The selfsame trick, if trick it was, is repeated night after night, without variation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
And leaving them, he went again: and he prayed the third time, saying the selfsame word. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
He was the selfsame falcon which she beheld in her dream that her mother unfolded to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
And the selfsame thing the thieves also that were crucified with him reproached him with. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
I had previously been admiring this selfsame bracelet, and they had tried to sell it to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
At the selfsame moment folk were found who fain would take them, and to these they were sent. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Dictionary of New Zealand English first appeared, penned by an academic of that selfsame city. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
But then it is not over; for down he comes the selfsame way -- and that is the tug of war; but he did it. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Addressed in these honeyed words, the king opened his eyes and saw before him that selfsame girl of swelling hips. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Jim's hand as he had crawled forward, clutched the foot of a man who was in hiding in this selfsame clump of bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
It is at this selfsame café that gather all the important men of our district, much as the American would go to his club. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
Inconsistent hyphenations of pre-historic/prehistoric, self-same/selfsame, and to-day/today have been retained as printed. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
I purposely became as familiar as possible and cautioned them to remain in the selfsame room and spread no notice of my presence. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
We have stood since then under the shadow of the Jungfrau, on the Wengern Alp, at the selfsame spot where Byron beheld the fall of so many. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
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