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adverb

Too adv.

Over; more than enough; noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much. "His will, too strong to bend, too proud to learn."

Likewise; also; in addition. "An honest courtier, yet a patriot too." "Let those eyes that view The daring crime, behold the vengeance too."

Too too, a duplication used to signify great excess. "O that this too too solid flesh would melt." "Such is not Charles his too too active age."

Synonyms: Also; likewise. See Also.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... all three were intent had evidently proved too much for the juvenile arithmeticians; and, as I looked, Allie pushed the ...

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... in her hat, at the front of the Inn, Gaites happened to be there, and he asked her if he might walk with her and make his inquiries too about the piano, in which, he urged, they were mutually interested. He had a notion to tell her all about his pursuit of Miss Desmond's piano, as something that would peculiarly interest Miss Desmond's friend; but though she admitted the force of his reasoning as to their common concern in ...

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... home-inheritance is generally confined to the amount of wealth which descends from the parent to the child. And this is indeed too often the only inheritance of which children can boast. Many parents, who even claim to be Christians, enslave both themselves and their families, to secure for their offspring a large pecuniary patrimony. They prostitute every thing else to this. And hence it often happens that the greatest ...

— The Christian Home • Samuel Philips

... his wife, who was an invalid. "Don't let her know," he said. But he thought too of the wretched man who had shot him. "Don't hurt him," ...

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... Italian than Italy itself. Francis the First, like Lewis the Twelfth before him, was attracted by the finesse of Leonardo's work; La Gioconda was already in his cabinet, and he offered Leonardo the little Chateau de Clou, with its vineyards and meadows, in the soft valley of the Masse, and not too far from the great outer sea. M. Arsene Houssaye has succeeded in giving a pensive local colour to this part of his subject, with which, as a Frenchman, he could best deal. "A Monsieur Lyonard, peinteur du Roy pour Amboyse,"—so the letter ...

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