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Same adj.

Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged. "Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end."

Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like. "The ethereal vigor is in all the same."

Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned. "What ye know, the same do I know." "Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve." Note: Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is often used substantively as in the citations above. In a comparative use it is followed by as or with. "Bees like the same odors as we do." "(He) held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend."

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"Same" Quotes from Famous Books

... very fine indeed, and began to do the same by the raven, painting it a coat exactly like ...

— Eskimo Folktales • Unknown

... Government or fussy, timid barristers I had to carry on me mouth. Seldom it was I carried a good pair of hands and a cool head in me nine years' runnin' with the Quebec and Montreal hounds. And lucky the same was for me, for it forced me to take the bit in me teeth, rely on meself, and regard me rider no more than if he were a sack of flour: I jist had it to do to save me own legs and me rider's neck, for to run by their reinin' and pullin' would have brought us a cropper at about two out of ...

— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson

... that men were in the same company put them somewhat on the same level, and produced an almost perfect bond of sympathy; but as time wore on, the various peculiarities and weaknesses of the men showed themselves, and each company, as a community, separated into ...

— Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 • Carlton McCarthy

... of many failures. One generation begins, and another continues—the present co-operating with the past. Thus, the Parthenon began with a mud-hut; the Last Judgment with a few scratches on the sand. It is the same with individuals of the race; they begin with abortive efforts, which, by means of perseverance, lead ...

— Thrift • Samuel Smiles

... powerful limbs, and thick, heavily-made feet. It was still when I first caught sight of it, but presently it commenced a succession of bounds with its back slightly arched, all the feet coming to the ground at the same moment. ...

— Snow Shoes and Canoes - The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory • William H. G. Kingston

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