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Society and Solitude choose

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[US] R.W. Emerson Society and Solitude 219: The black-coats are good company only for black-coats.
at black coat (n.) under black, adj.
[US] R.W. Emerson Society and Solitude 190: Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man.
at bone-house (n.) under bone, n.1
[US] R.W. Emerson Society and Solitude 219: I knew a scholar [...] who said that he liked, in a bar-room, to tell a few coon stories.
at coon, adj.
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