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pronoun

another pron., adj.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. "Another yet! a seventh! I 'll see no more." "Would serve to scale another Hero's tower."

Not the same; different. "He winks, and turns his lips another way."

Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." "While I am coming, another steppeth down before me." Note: As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others. "These two imparadised in one another's arms."

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... gallant crew had been buffeting with the storm for two days and nights without rest, and with little or no food. The boat itself had been badly stove while alongside with the last load of passengers. She was so much knocked to pieces as to be really unserviceable, nor could she have held another person. Still those brave seamen, inspired by the conduct and true to the trust imposed in them by their Captain, did not hesitate to leave the brig again, and pull back through the dark for miles, across an angry sea, that they might join him in his sinking ship, and take their chances with the ...

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... Play ... A comedy of amazing fidelity to the Irish peasant's gift and passion for a special quality of headlong, highly figured speech, that rushes on, gathering pace from one stroke of vividness to another ...

— Ireland and the Home Rule Movement • Michael F. J. McDonnell

... on expected to see them all fall dead. Pero Bermudez and Ferrando Gonzalez encountered, and the shield of Pero Bermudez was pierced, but the spear past through on one side, and hurt him not, and brake in two places; and he sat firm in his seat. One blow he received, but he gave another; he drove his lance through Ferrando's shield, at his breast, so that nothing availed him. Ferrando's breast-plate was threefold: two plates the spear went clean through, and drove the third in before it, with the velmes and the shirt, into the breast, near his heart; ... and the girth and the ...

— Chronicle Of The Cid • Various

... tell you about my trouble. One Saturday afternoon a party of young men came to get me. They had a dog with them, a cocker spaniel called Bob, but they wanted another. For some reason or other, my master was very unwilling to have me go. However, he at last consented, and they put me in the back of the wagon with Bob and the lunch baskets, and we drove off into the country. This Bob was a happy, merry-looking ...

— Beautiful Joe - An Autobiography of a Dog • by Marshall Saunders

... the champagne, and was brave enough almost for anything. There was some debate going on in reference to the game laws,—a subject on which Melmotte was as ignorant as one of his housemaids,—but, as some speaker sat down, he jumped up to his legs. Another gentleman had also risen, and when the House called to that other gentleman Melmotte gave way. The other gentleman had not much to say, and in a few minutes Melmotte was again on his legs. Who shall dare to describe the thoughts which would ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

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