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worlds

/wɝldz/ adverb A1
  1. To a great extent; much; far. (figuratively)
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Miss Stacy says you are bright and diligent.” Not for worlds would Marilla have told Anne just what Miss Stacy had said about her; that would have been to pamper vanity.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 249 · C1
Not for worlds would Anne have had Gilbert Blythe or Josie Pye see those tears.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 250 · C1
New worlds of thought, feeling, and ambition, fresh, fascinating fields of unexplored knowledge seemed to be opening out before Anne’s eager eyes.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 262 · C1
we have so many worlds in the year of grace 1838.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 432 · C1

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