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1707 F. Atterbury Large Vindic. Doctr. Funeral Serm. T. Bennet 32 As to the words themselves, there is nothing in them that sounds that way.

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xi in Tales Fashionable Life VI. xi. 187 This is what makes you weak, fretting. Don't be that way.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers l. 544 ‘I'm afraid you are wet.’.. ‘Yes, I am, a little that way.’

1850 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 27 Sept. 7/6 That fatness is rare and admired, or at least marvelled at in these districts... People could not get that way in the country, he said, but they did in the towns.

1895 Whist June 4/2 I'm that way myself—‘well-trained’.

1919 Outing Mar. 311/1 ‘How does he get that way?’ Kramer answers by giving his ‘three rules of living’, as follows:—1—Always get enough sleep. 2—Never eat too much. 3—Never dissipate.

1927 Enemy No. 2. 72 They made the river as dead as a door-nail with their railroads and it has been that way ever since.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 91 It got that way in the end that I used to look forward to seeing Nolan and his team come lumbering down from the north.

1976 T. Murphy On Inside in Plays: 4 (1997) 203 No need to be that way about it.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 Apr. a6/2 Somalia is notoriously fragmented between dozens of rival clans and subclans, and has been that way for centuries.

2014 A. Schrag Adam i. 6 Her nipples looked hard, and despite his paranoia, Adam could feel himself getting that way too.