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fend for

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fend for yourself
to take care of yourself. The girl took everything she could carry and left the boy all alone to fend for himself.
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It's a sore thing to do between such near friends; but if I get the dirdum[23] of this dreadful accident, I'll have to fend for myself, man.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
"Ah, but they must turn out and fend for themselves," said Mr.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
And so I wish you good-bye, Master Marner; and if you ever feel anyways bad in your inside, as you can't fend for yourself, I'll come and clean up for you, and get you a bit o' victual, and willing.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
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