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1. Inside, Colling lifted a battered coffepot from the coal stove in one end of the third-class railway car and poured himself a mug of what he discovered was bitter-tasting ersatz brew
2. ―I want to hear about your dog, what happened to him… what kind of dog was he? How long did you have him… Oh, I hurt so bad from the wire…‖ Her ersatz courage took a nosedive as a choking sob aborted her plea
3. As long as the vacuum of emptiness and boredom exists in people's lives and souls, the artificial replacement of ersatz excitement will continue to be sold and consumed
4. One man considers himself possessed of clever manners because he knows the vagaries and various modifications of expensive liquored drinks; one woman considers herself a delicate mistress-of-society because she enjoys a maraschino cherry on top of her cheesecake; the pseudo-intellectual; the ersatz genius, these believe themselves scholars when they read — yet do not comprehend — the learned books
5. The nurses threw him another party, the ersatz bourbon went down easy, and there was a moonlit jeep ride with a pretty girl
6. In many businesses, particularly those that have high asset/profit ratios, inflation causes some or all of the reported earnings to become ersatz
7. The ersatz portion-let's call these earnings "restricted"-cannot, if the business is to retain its economic position, be distributed as dividends