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Apparently my friend’s mother thought my dad would eventually give in, but my father wasn’t the giving-in type.

Miss Bess was in a very giving-in mood.

But father's his only child, and our grandmother died a good while ago, and I think she must have been a very giving-in sort of person, and that's bad training for any one.

And his final giving-in to everything Fay wanted because Fay wanted it.

Yet even in this we have no sense of failure, of "giving-in": it is for intenser life that he dies, and she shall be his queen "while his soul endures."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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