Meaning of original as sin | Babel Free

Definitions

Very original.

not-comparable

Examples

“Say what you will, once whispered a friend of mine, there are things in him strong as poison, and original as sin.”

“But I had no guess of it then as I sat writing by the fireside, in what seemed the spring-tides of a somewhat pedestrian inspiration; nor yet day by day, after lunch, as I read aloud my morning's work to the family. It seemed to me original as sin; it seemed to belong to me like my right eye.”

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