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in style

1. Lit. in fashion; fashionable. This old coat isn't in style anymore. I don't care if it's not in style. It's warm. I hope this coat comes into style again.

2. Fig. in elegance; in luxury. If I had a million dollars, I could really live in style. If he saves his money, someday he'll be able to live in style.

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Well, the good quality of an age, the defect of which lies in the direction of intellectual anarchy and confusion, may well be eclecticism: in style, as in other things, it is well always to aim at the combination of as many excellences as possible--opposite excellences, it may be--those other beauties of prose. The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context Now that this book is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its shortcomings both in style and contents, weighs very heavily upon me. King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth of the river, and then tell him about his being free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context	in shoes in short in short order in short supply in sight in sights in single file in situ in small doses in so many words in some neck of the woods in some respects in some transaction for in spades in spare time in spite of in spitting distance in stead in step in step with in stitches in stock in stocking feet in storage in store in style in sum in summary in Sunday best in surgery in tandem in tatters in tears in terms of in that regard in the absence of in the act in the affirmative in the air in the altogether in the back of mind in the bag in the balance in the ballpark in the bargain in the best of health in the black in the blink of an eye in the blood in the boondocks in the bosom of	in stitches in stitches in stitches in stock in stock in stock in stock in stock in stock in stocking feet in stockinged feet in stockinged feet in stockinged feet in storage in store in store in store in store in store In Store Loss Prevention In Store Processor in straitened circumstances in straitened circumstances In Street Name in strict compliance with in strict conformity in stride In Striking Distance In Striking Distance in strong relief in style In Substance Debt Defeasance In Substance Defeasance in substance is in sum in sum in sum in summary in Sunday best In sunder In suo quisque negotio hebetior est quam in alieno in support in support of in support of in surgery in suspense in sync in sync in synch in synch in tabulas referre In Tall Cotton in tandem in tandem in tandem in tandem In Tartiflette We Puke In Tartiflette We Trust in tatters in tears in tela

Well, the good quality of an age, the defect of which lies in the direction of intellectual anarchy and confusion, may well be eclecticism: in style, as in other things, it is well always to aim at the combination of as many excellences as possible--opposite excellences, it may be--those other beauties of prose.

The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context

Now that this book is printed, and about to be given to the world, a sense of its shortcomings both in style and contents, weighs very heavily upon me.

King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context

And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth of the river, and then tell him about his being free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

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