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Selfsame

adjective
1.
Being the exact same one; not any other:.  Synonyms: identical, very.  "The themes of his stories are one and the same" , "Saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers" , "On this very spot" , "The very thing he said yesterday" , "The very man I want to see"



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"Selfsame" Quotes from Famous Books



... Camp the cook is kind And laughs the laugh we knew as boys; And there we slip away and find Awaiting us the old-time joys. The catbird calls the selfsame way She used to in the long ago, And there's a chorus all the day Of songsters it is ...
— A Heap o' Livin' • Edgar A. Guest

... the Queen, Is a dismal failure—is a Might-have-been. In a luckless moment he discovered men Rise to high position through a ready pen. Boanerges Blitzen argued therefore—"I, With the selfsame weapon, can attain as high." Only he did not possess when he made the trial, Wicked wit of ...
— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling

... makes dark things wait upon the bright, And from my sad retirements calls me forth, The just recorder of thy death and worth. Long didst thou live—if length be measured by The tedious reign of our calamity— And counter to all storms and changes still Kept'st the same temper, and the selfsame will. Though trials came as duly as the day, And in such mists, that none could see his way, Yet thee I found still virtuous, and saw The sun give clouds, and Charles give both the law. When private interest did all hearts bend, And ...
— Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II • Henry Vaughan

... stirred an ember Still remaining from my ardours of some forty years before, When the selfsame portal on an eve it thrilled me to remember ...
— Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy

... specimens of the flattering appellations which had till now been bestowed, by their new friends, upon these selfsame farmers—"Bull-frogs!" "chaw-bacons!" "clod-poles!" "hair-bucks!" "deluded slaves!" "brute drudges!"[28] Now, however, they and their labourers were addressed in terms of respectful sympathy and flattery, as the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. • Various


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