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Thanks Aria - the chard is almost too lovely to eat..almost;

Rainbow Chard and Ricotta Stuffed Chicken Haalo 2007

She almost -- not really, but _almost_ -- wished she had gone home with her mother.

Mary Jane's City Home Clara Ingram Judson 1914

They might come and ask him questions, and he might even admit almost all -- _almost_ all, and they could do nothing, for no one had seen what he had done to Toni in the wood.

True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Arthur Cheney Train 1910

Cicero, -- _vox et praeterea almost nihil_ (he had yet to die and show that it was _almost, _ not _quite, _) sheers off too, into the country, there to busy himself with an essay on the _Nature of the Gods_ (to contain, be sure, some fine eloquence), and with making up his mind to attack Anthony on behalf of Republican

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

By the time that Scott came to his 'teens, Mrs. Brenton was doing her level and conscientious best to conceal from him the demoralizing fact of her belief that he could do almost no wrong, and she clung to the modifying _almost_ with a passionate fervour born of her clerical ancestry and her consequent belief in the inherent viciousness of unconverted man.

The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

But his own wits were nimble, almost feminine in the rapid delicacy of their intuition -- _almost_ feminine, but not quite.

The Common Law 1899

Also there were those who had been almost persuaded, and who yet, so far as their salvation was concerned, were no nearer it that day than though they had never thought of the matter, for _almost_ never saves a soul.

The Chautauqua Girls At Home 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

But as in other cases among mammals all nearly related forms yield an almost equally marked precipitate, so the serum of a rabbit treated with human blood and then added to the blood of an anthropoid ape gives _almost_ as marked

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

And if, in late old age, no dawn of memory having gleamed in his ruined mind, she came to be able to speak to him and tell him his own story -- the tale of the wreck of his early years -- would not that almost, _almost_, carry with it a kind of compensation for what she had undergone?

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

You say you almost love _him_; but until your _almost_ comes to a _quite_, I cannot love _you_.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824