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Definition of Mismates
1. mismate [v] - See also: mismate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mismates
Literary usage of Mismates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Offthoughts about Women and Other Things by Samuel Rockwell Reed (1888)
"... which is wholly unworked, and which has stories of early and often love,
compared to which the novelist's killing off his mismates is clumsy brutality. ..."
2. How to Manage a Retail Shoe Store: A Series of Essays by Boot and shoe recorder, Boston (1888)
"This latter prevents selling mismates. I do not believe in having uniform cartons.
The manufacturers send you nice ones in which to leave your goods, ..."
3. Journal of the United States Artillery by Artillery School (Fort Monroe, Va.), Coast Artillery Training Center (U.S.) (1914)
"Submission to the will of the superior and initiative seem queer bed fellows,
and there are many such mismates in the team. There is a borderland of extreme ..."
4. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches by Henry Cuyler Bunner (1896)
"... in two widely different starting-places—though they were so little alike to
outward seeming that they were known among their friends as " the mismates. ..."
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