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  • It was an inroad, minor but vital, and perhaps not so minor.†  (source)
  • "I know that," I said, seizing this inroad.†  (source)
  • On Saturday afternoon Liza checked her work, left a list of instructions as long as her arm to cover every possibility from colic to an inroad of grease ants, packed her traveling basket, and had Lee drive her home.†  (source)
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  • But if we keep making inroads into the city, we might find a pretty who wants out.†  (source)
  • Negroes had carried away most of the sides and roof that remained of the house, but had hardly made inroad on the chimney, surprisingly enough; it was its full height still, visible from here, dove-pink through the dust and leanness.†  (source)
  • My names have come nat'rally, and I suppose the one I bear now will be of no great lasting, since the Delawares seldom settle on a man's ra'al title, until such time as he has an opportunity of showing his true natur', in the council, or on the warpath; which has never behappened me; seeing firstly, because I'm not born a red-skin and have no right to sit in their councillings, and am much too humble to be called on for opinions from the great of my own colour; and, secondly, because this is the first war that has befallen in my time, and no inimy has yet inroaded far enough into the colony, to be reached by an arm even longer than mine.†  (source)
  • But even in their failures they made inroads into understanding the manipulation of space/time.†  (source)
  • A dollar sixty-five a day was simply not enough to feed them, and there was no use trying; and so each week they made an inroad upon the pitiful little bank account that Ona had begun.†  (source)
  • It was midway through September when Ruth May made her inroads.†  (source)
  • when the harvest was at last gathered, then came the procession of robbers to levy their blackmail upon it: first the Church carted off its fat tenth, then the king's commissioner took his twentieth, then my lord's people made a mighty inroad upon the remainder;†  (source)
  • Jack drank gratefully, feeling the gin hit and crumble away the first inroads of sobriety.†  (source)
  • I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.†  (source)
  • Chinese women are also making inroads in fields that were once overwhelmingly male.†  (source)
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