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something of sorts

an inferior example of a kind of something. Well, it's a solution of sorts, I suppose. It was a novel of sorts, but not what I'd ever have chosen.

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This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his jaw have relaxed, leaving him there in that ungainly sort of plight, a reproach to all his tribe, who must, no doubt, imprecate lock-jaws upon him. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context The countess was upset by her friend's sorrow and humiliating poverty, and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always found expression in calling her maid "my dear" and speaking to her with exaggerated politeness. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context They came limping and hanging their heads; and we set out for home, sadly out of sorts, every one of us. Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily View in context			odds and ends odds are against one odds-on favorite odor odor of sanctity of a certain age of a mind to of a piece of a sort of age of all people of all places of all things Of all things! of benefit of course of interest of late of mature years of note of old of one mind of own accord of own making of service of sorts of the essence of the first water of the moment of the old school of the persuasion of the sort of two minds off off and running off artist off balance off base off campus off center off chance off course off duty off game off goes off hands off like a shot off limits off on a sidetrack off on the right foot off on the wrong foot			of prepared cavity model of prepared cavity model of prepared cavity model of prepared cavity model of promise of pupillary pathway afferent limb of recent occurrence Of Record of regular recurrence of repute Of Reuss of right of right of right of right of right of Rights of Rights of Rights Of sale Of Samos Aristarchus Of Samos Aristarchus of second rank of service of service of short duration of small moment of small value Of Smoke And Mirrors Of Soldiers and Saints of sorts of sound judgment of sound mind of species of species of species of species of statoconium of supreme importance of Swabia of Swabia Of that ilk of that kind of that sort of the best quality of the blood of the blood of the blood of the blood of the blood royal of the blood royal of the blood royal of the blood royal Of the Day Of the Dead of the deepest dye of the deepest dye of the deepest dye of the deepest dye Of the Director of Corporate Enforcement of the essence

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