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I am poor at introspection; I have not much inness to inspect.
Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008
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I am poor at introspection; I have not much inness to inspect.
Creatures: A Memoir 2008
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The very life makes for shut-inness, in mind as well as body, and there are thousands and thousands of men, and women, too, there, who know scarcely a soul outside of the very few with whom their daily work brings them in contact; and _they_ are mere acquaintances, not friends.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson
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Of course we miss the inness, but there is a bliss of its own in waiting.
Unspoken Sermons Third Series 1824-1905 1889
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Of course we miss the _inness_, but there is a bliss of its own in waiting.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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This year, ShamrockFest is partnering with the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and attendees can perform a simultaneous "chest bump" and aim to set a G.inness world record.
Washington, D.C. Business News - Local Washington, D.C. News | The Washington Business Journal 2010
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The ratio of Jason Varitek to Victor Martinez on the inness/outness scale tends more towards the Varitek-out/Martinez-in end of the spectrum.
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine Dave Rutt 2010
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Point being I am certain many many people never overcome the simple dislike I had of the city with it’s ugliness, hemmed inness and smells.
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“Point being I am certain many many people never overcome the simple dislike I had of the city with what I personally perceived to be it’s ugliness, hemmed inness and smells.”
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"On all these accounts, I should esteem it a hap - inness, if it should please Providence to open a way for me to attain my honest wishes.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ... 1812
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