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a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 64 (MED) Yit woll I fonde To wryte and do my bisinesse, That in som part..The wyse man mai ben avised.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 104^v The lions lepe aboute the necke of bellorophon som tyme in suche nombre that in no parte he myght be seen.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 1178 Off Wallace mar in sum-part spek will we.

c1550 Clariodus (1830) ii. 177 Sir, brokin ar your harnes in sum part, Quhairfor I yow beseike..That ye wald weir this harnes for my saike.

1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Pref. to Rdr. sig. ⋆⋆⋆⋆2/^v I haue..saied so much, as maye in greate parte suffise to instruct and prepare thy Attention to the reading and vnderstanding of [etc.].

a1591 H. Smith Sinfull Mans Search (1592) sig. C4 That which we can performe but in small part, he is content to accept as whole.

1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 9 Plannets are said to goe backe, when removing themselves, they goe not forward their course, but returne backe the way they came, in some part.

1641 J. Pym Declar. to House of Commons 35 And of this obstruction, (my Lords) I must clear the Commons, we are in no part guilty of it.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 747 Yet in some part to recompense My rash but more unfortunate misdeed. View more context for this quotation

1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. iii. 19 What you say seems plausible enough, and is in some Part true.

1760 Ayscough's Nottingham Courant 20 Sept. 2/2 He was a most shocking spectacle to behold..and..he seemed in great part insensible.

1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. iv. 75 Can freedom be regulated without being..in some part destroyed?

1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso iii. 57 Our vows Were, in some part, neglected and made void.

1840 W. B. Rogers Rep. Progress Geol. Surv. State Virginia 1839 iii. ii. 45 It is a whitish gneiss, composed in large part of quartz in grains, with a little mica.

1875 Ladies' Repository Aug. 143/1 There is a simplicity and grandeur about the great nave..that in some part makes up for the artistic defects of the building.

1876 F. Martin Hist. Lloyd's i. 2 These Merchants of the Steelyard, in great part founders of our foreign commerce,..were also the originators of marine insurance in England.

1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 740/2 The slowness of his gait and the shortness of his steps were in some part due to the half-Wellingtons which he habitually wore.

1986 Gravitation, Cosmol., & Cosmic-Ray Physics (U.S. National Res. Council) ii. 19 A measurement..will be greater the nearer a massive body lies to the path of propagation, owing in part to the principle of equivalence and in equal part to space curvature.

1991 Coarse Fishing Feb. 4/2 The problem with anglers, and in some part angling clubs, is that the demand is always the same, give us more fish.

2011 T. Jollimore Love's Vision i. 25 Loving someone is, in large part, a kind of positive, appreciative response to her in virtue of her attractive, desirable, or otherwise valuable properties.