source
/sɔɹs/ verb C1- To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource.
- To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for.
He/she/it sources · Past sourced · Past participle sourced · -ing form sourcing
Verb forms
- Base form
- source
- He/she/it
- sources
- Past
- sourced
- Past participle
- sourced
- -ing form
- sourcing
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who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction.”
Do you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none but those who work are entitled to eat?”
Now, presuming that the source of the crime is as we suspect it to be, there might be two different motives.
Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
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