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This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
We are naked, as it were, under the glinting gaze of waitrons and sales staffs across America.
It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the State.
Hearing these expressions the audience is, as it were, invited to read the scene informed by an Africanist perspective.
They were being herded, corralled, and lassoed, as it were, by high-tech means.
Something has gone amiss with him and that, for England, has been, as it were, the crux.
Life there seemed so rich and full, and I was enjoying it all so much and on the way up, as it were, in my career.
There is nothing humble in living below our best, apologizing, as it were, for our existence.
I see there are also websites run by ex-vegans, apostates as it were, who left the fold chiefly for health reasons.
Now you will not have read this, so I am going to, as it were, just read out the bits which are applicable.
I guess economists can be a bit specialized but I was once a High School economics teacher so I speak the lingo, as it were.
Coming of age, as it were, as the business model replaced earlier social models, they bought into the business model lock, stock, and barrel.
Like racoons, they have found niches in urban areas, living in our trash, as it were.
Also in Eire, there's a scheme for paying a living wage to artists once they have proved themselves, as it were.
Instead of me trying to get inside Harry's head, as it were, he started getting inside mine.
I was feeling truly at odds with the world, in it, but not of it, as it were.
All it seems to do, though, is set out a number of procedural steps, as it were.
It is clearly more powerful if you can identify a trend, because one rises above the individual dispute, as it were.
Some of the young stags early in a hunt may turn and stand at bay for short periods as a sort of posturing, as it were, to the hounds.
This book, not scholarly by any manner of means, takes us on a cultural excursion, as it were.
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Not really hungry, the trio dined early and lightly, eating, as it were, out of habit rather than desire.
The fine plastic yellow mud will put lycopodium powder to shame, as it were.
One wants to keep this area, as it were, as free of taint as far as one can.
To this end, a theory construes those phenomena as manifestations of entities and processes that lie behind or beneath them, as it were.
But what is more, we now acknowledge that the political life of Tudor England was multilayered, a carpet, as it were, with a very thick pile.
According to the relativist, belief and conviction fly out of the window because truth is, as it were, too cheap to care about.
Aside from the searing guitar riffs and angry-youth lyrics, there was not a particularly special moment or showstopper, as it were.
In London where I've lived and worked, the real mudlark, the historical one, was a child who lived in the gutter, as it were.
So it's still possible to steal a mobile phone, change the simcard inside it, rebirth the mobile phone as it were, and Bob's your uncle.
I just don't want to be one of those Neanderthal guys who just knock women over the head and drag them back to their caves, as it were.
I will lay out my reasons for this below, starting with the argument against, which is easier for me to get on paper as it were.
If you really want to, as it were, push the boat out, you can hire a private room on this boat, which means you get some nosh as well.
It is as if she has already passed into a higher plane of existence and is recalling mortal limitations from the other side, as it were.
Well in fact when you do someone's horoscope, you must find some dark sign, some bad omens as it were.
I mean, that may well be true but still and all, show me the money as it were.
The Act requires, does it not, that the accounting, as it were, or the stocktaking, using a loose term, be done on that date.
So rather than doing it on the hoof, as it were, perhaps your Lordships would be minded to adopt our suggestion.
Since I'm on the ground as it were, I've direct access to many of the headmasters, teachers, and senior exponents of these disciplines.
Magazines have weathered the on-line storm, as it were, and are back in the catbird seat.
The manner of resolution of it is one that has been cut off at the pass, as it were, because of the challenge to jurisdiction.
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Once in the house of custom, on the hither side of the cutting edge, as it were, the scene appears upside down, turned on its head.
An indigenous society cannot, as it were, surrender its rights by modifying its way of life.
But unless we apply the knowledge that we have gained, we cannot pass go, as it were.
This morning I could feel it coming on again, and took some aspirin to head it off at the pass, as it were.
Now, may I just take your Honours to some short passages in the first book to make good, as it were, what I am saying in an evidentiary sense.
Like many words in everyday use, it carries with it, as it were, a penumbra of different shades of meaning.
To those hacks like me who find life littered, as it were, with cock-ups rather than conspiracies, this is rather more plausible.
I'm a code monkey and I get a kick out of messing around with the system, as it were, but I'm hardly a particularly exciting guy.
It means there is an expressive logic immanent to the medium as such, immanent in the material as it were.
He becomes completely inarticulate and unable to close the deal, as it were, because he loves her too much!
If one were to look at the heart as it were fibrillating, it would look like a bowl of Jell-O quivering.
In this time of tell-all public confessionals, I'm coming clean about my own coming-of-age, as it were.
Thus we begin, connaturally as it were, to experience the presence of God in all things, the presence of Christ in each person we meet.
So one has to then find out what the connection was in contemplation of the Parliament, as it were, to use inaccurate language again, I suppose.
He knew as much about angels as the next person, but he'd never met one in the flesh, as it were.
That, as it were, removes or deals with a critical contingency which would make compensation payable, but it is only the first step.
The ease and fluency resides, as it were outside him, in the pre-formulated efficiency of the machinery of expression.
These orders all seem to go to saying we can, as it were, foreordain a regime that will minimise the risk.
The only things that have changed since the start of the peace process have been, as it were, exogenous variables.
The degree of extractability, as it were, depends on the type of data extracted.
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At this particular event, one British woman had one too many, as it were.
But then we weren't seriously hunting for fossils, a worthwhile pursuit if you are not already well advanced into fossilization yourself, as it were.
Representation is, as it were, the reality principle of the image.
Thus does Majid Majidi begin his film in a minor key, as it were, giving us the aural experience of a blind person before substituting a visual one for all those who can see.
Finding that these men who fished for the billfish monsters were as alike, and yet as different as it were possible to be, to each other and to myself.
Inside the heard voices is an unheard voice, an aphonic voice, as it were.
The cystic gravel assumes a crystalline, and as it were a waxy appearance.
Most of the hearing time was actually occupied by challenges to the jury, as it were, the panel of military officers that are going to hear the case.
The same coaches, players and fans who rail against officials often lack an understanding and appreciation of not only the basics but also, as it were, the art of reffing.
Did they pay the marginal increase that they are objecting to under protest, as it were, or have they just refused to pay it, so they are not out of pocket for it?
Then you get a gander at the full monty, as it were, and he looks like someone inflated him from the sternum down.
He was told what the terms were and he, as it were, gave his blessing.
Benedict may well want to cut short the time available for the cardinals to politick, posture, and pontificate, as it were.
But something was lost when the unarmed, as it were, and solitary stand-up comic gave way to the plugged-in sitdown comic.
Rather, leaders are always immanent in political processes where power appears, retrospectively as it were, to illuminate the discursive field of contestation and its victors.
This is simply an allegation that they are keeping him sweet, as it were.
Comic interludes and sundry distractions prevent the magnetic theme of love-even in Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear-from attracting all the iron filings, as it were.
I will be careful not to go off-piste, as it were, into a debate about electoral reform, because I was trying to put my remarks in the context of what happens in this place.
Most of these numbers, if not all of them, are guesstimates, as it were.
It is, as it were, a plumbless ocean of intelligence everywhere.
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The sheer convolutedness of the dedication should at least remove any possibility that it was really Shakespeare's own, published, as it were, by proxy.
The drones, as it were, had to rest at their stations, constantly maintaining the hive for the greater good.
As participants in communication we adopt as it were an extramundane position with respect to the innerworldly items about which we can come to an understanding.
Under Francis, the Church wants to bring people back into the stadium, as it were.
And I refuse to weigh-in, as it were, on one side or the other.
The numbers will ride, as it were, on the coattails of the vision.
The whole company walked as it were processionally to the end of the apartment, and, after observing in silence the beds on each side, left us.
It were good to keepe some of the juyce of raspis-berries in some wooden vessel, and to make it, as it were, raspis wine.
The bat's excretions that land in the pitcher pay for the shelter, as it were.
The waitress brought the coffee about this time, saving me by the bell, as it were.
The interior of the prison flashed white with suddenly-turned faces. The gloom scintillated, as it were, with rapidly-moving hands.
That of the two nominated, one should be an unfit Man, and as it were a Stale, to bring the Office to the other.
Then she that saw him lying unsleek, unshorn, Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself, Uttered a little tender dolorous cry.
The Nestorians so separated the human from the divine that they created, as it were, two Christ individuals.
Wilde began his parenting career with a bang, as it were, but then the kids just seemed to dry up for the cultured left-footer.
Messiaen's musical response to all these questions, as it were, is a monodic quotation of the Alleluia from the Feast of All Saints.
By objectivity is meant a subjectless account of being, as it were, being apart from any relation to a subject.
On the other hand, the MacMenamins seem to have achieved true happiness, content in their unkemptness, as it were.
Scientists hope Crispr might also be used for genomic surgery, as it were, to correct errant genes that cause disease.
It is in the moments of unharmony that the possibilities for constituting oneself, for folding the force as it were, exist.
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Such maladjustments intimate, as it were, that civilization is more or less allergic to itself.
The funny thing is, Chandler would come up with a good image, pictorial, and like I said I would come up with a Chandlerism, as it were.
Now when the Foretopman found himself closeted there, as it were, in the cabin with the Captain and Claggart, he was surprised enough.
The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
Not all friendships are homogender, as it were, nor within the same class or age group.
The kutauss is remarkably bold, sparing nothing which it can overcome, and frequently killing merely, as it were, for sport.
But he did not lose heart and remained true to his perspective, swimming against the current, as it were, lion-heartedly.
For one, learners may become fossilized or stuck as it were with ungrammatical items.
The gods, of course, were a quite farcical invention, though necessary for the as it were marmoreal exaltation of the civic virtues.
Miriam would only speed up in her speech when she 'forgot' the presence of others, when she was, as it were, enveloped in monology.
So many characteristics that had been strange and unfathomable to me before, took, as it were, their right proportions.
I lay, as it were, in the Paphian bower of bliss, in a state of exquisite sensations quite impossible to describe.
She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.
I can't think of any other job where you finish the task, clock off, as it were, and then spend up to 10 minutes helping someone before clocking on and earning money again.
Our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth and falsehood.
The tax, as it were, payable upon acceptance into the purificative region of Literature is subjugation of the material to the conventional taxonomic classificatory principle.
I cannot now say whether the anemia of that background figure, its apparitional hyalescence, as it were, belongs to the faded memory or to the remembered object itself.
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
Folktronica, as it were, isn't exactly breaking new musical ground, but you'd be hard pressed to find an artist who pulls it off as well as Rainy Boy Sleep.
Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world.
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But it is impossible to pass by the objection to theology which comes as it were ab intra from the side of religion.
We want our magnet to project, as it were, its force across the greatest length of air gap.
But aja caught her in his arms, and kissed her yet again, as it were against her will.
The cathedral empties itself, as it were, into the alameda just after morning mass.
The disintegrated mass of rabbits commenced, as it were, to solidify, to coagulate.
But this romanticism is, as it were, a segment of the larger circle of idealism.
Thus he looks down, as it were, upon the heaviest seas, and this greatly diminishes their apparent magnitude and elevation.
In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate, or have both sutures as it were soldered together.
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half an acre of land.
Gwaednerth made his enemies, as it were, pay him this tribute with the gold of their armour.
The horizon was growing indistinct, assuming a mud-colored tinge as it were.
The theory is not a thing complete from the first, but a thing which grows, as it were asymptotically, towards certainty.
With this and aureolin a series of beautiful foliage tints may be formed, sparkling with sunshine, as it were.
Situated as it were in the centre of this austral Ocean, the future highway of the world, it is accessible from all quarters.
That short thoroughfare forms, as it were, a backwash for the traffic of Piccadilly.
By barrack and camp life the normal civilian intellect is, as it were, marooned.
Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema.
He has raised us to partake, as it were, in the ubiquity of his own beneficence.
They sat a buckjumper as a child sits a swing, and seemed to be horsemasters as it were by instinct.
Nothing prevented him paying a friendly call to Mr Verloc, casually as it were.
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The injunction is multiplied on us, as it were, to silence the sophistry of the caviller, and to fix the most inconsiderate mind.
It raged mostly among children and youths, and was wont to affect them with a long and, as it were, a chronical sickness.
He talked slowly, as it were circumspectly, keeping his prominent black eyes on his captain.
These all commemorate, as it were, but the inception of the great discovery.
The one was to be, as it were, the conductor, and the other the statesman of the expeditionary corps.
To be crushed, as it were, under the tip of a forefinger was an unpleasant experience.
Now this is as it were the frontier of Germany, as far as Germany is washed by the Danube.
The characteristic harmoniousness of her face became, as it were, decomposed for an instant.
He was at once hailed as a deliverer, and made, as it were, painter to the Revolution.
Their religion is, as it were, a last attempt to divinize all that constitutes humanity in men.
We sat as it were in the dress circle, with the orchestra and stage in our front.
With this duplication, its national consciousness has as it were solidified.
This was a bit of his clowning humor, a purely manufactured and as it were mechanical joke or ebullience of soul.
This information was given to me not emotionally but as it were officially.
As a result one becomes, as it were, en rapport with the subject before one.
I don't see that that exonerates the man who gives up the keys of the sanctuary, as it were.
Miss Minerva's pupil, exuding information as it were at every pore in her skin, had been rudely dried up at a moment's notice.
I am, as it were, a creature of your own fashioning, and I owe to you that which I never can repay.
Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.
Was I to fight shy of him, or set to work, as it were, in opposition to him?
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Lombroso has combed history, as it were, with a fine-tooth comb, and very few geniuses have escaped his notice.
The deep blue of the overarching skies were embroidered, as it were, with fleecy clouds.
He was but a gazer, entirely concentrated in watchfulness, sunk as it were in searching.
It was a curious coincidence, the opposite causes for the gratulation on either side coming together as it were, but so it was.
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
He moved beside her, magnified and haloed, as it were, by the dusk and the sunset.
Hamsun has returned, as it were, to the scene of his passionate youth, but in altered guise.
Thus Wordsworth shrank back into Toryism, as it were, from a Shelleyan extreme of pantheism as yet disembodied.
They radiate from the surface of the skin and reproduce a simulacrum, as it were, of the surface.
Jack was a candid young man, and had his religious views fixed, as it were, hereditarily.
This stence spoken as it were in a sme, may be enlarged, if seuerally you reherse vp al the kindes of learning.
They had gone unheard and unseen, melting, as it were, in the shock and smother of the wave.
He must strike, as it were, the shield of no Hospitaler of unsteady seat, but that of the Templar himself.
Here all the varieties of his studies come into play, as it were, spontaneously.
And her whisper was such that he passed the weapon, as it were hypnotically, to her under the blind.
A young modern author, whatever his new celebrity, felt that to be published by Ince and Amberley hall-marked him as it were.
The production of gold is only incidental, as it were, while the output of silver might be doubled.
This same broad conclusion is sustained also at the north, where the prairie dovetails, as it were, with the subarctic forest.
He knows it inside-out, as it were, within a few minutes of its acquisition.
The best always come at a burst, spontaneously and as it were inspirationally.
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And, on her side, she had been as it were intoxicated by the idea of making others happy.
The great Thunderer had, as it were, gone into a condition of introspection.
They were on a peninsula, as it were, while the soldiers were securing the isthmus.
The plain of Jezreel formed, as it were, the centre of the Canaanitish kingdoms.
This done, the half-jacket forms, as it were, a water-tight extension of the kaiak.
They are watered and created, as it were, by the various branches of the kans river.
The fire of inspiration brings out, as it were, designs traced beforehand in sympathetic ink.
So every telephone wire now is double and therefore is ready, as it were, to have the telewriter fitted to it.
In no other country is the wanderer brought so close, as it were, to the luminaries of night.
He was thunderstruck, and as it were deprived of the moral support of his whiskers.
When they are all, as it were, turned on together, the effect is torrential!
She also pointed an extended finger at Mr. Aiken, as it were transfixing him.
Since the Trappist's visit, the chevalier had entered, as it were, upon a fresh term of life.
This was the surname of the Nabob in Tunis, the label, as it were, of his luck.
In the first place this merchet fine occurs in the extents sporadically as it were.
We unfold the hidden operations, the very arcana of Nature, whom we unclothe as it were to her very nakedness.
At that instant he saw Hope's eyes upon his, he saw her hand go to the poke bonnet, as it were to unloosen the strings.
He lived, as it were, under the shadow of some fatal curse which seemed to predestine all his actions to failure.
Now the effect of the parasite seems to be to unsex as it were its victims so far as their outward appearance is concerned.
Sometimes, however, his thoughts are unshapen, and as it were rough-hewn and rugged.
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It has been thought distinctly, but only possessed, as it were, unpacked and unsorted.
They burst, as it were like a breaking wave, against the rocks that perforate the grass.
I have already told you that the dry sand had, as it were, mummified the body.
We are thus, as it were, driven upon the theory of Theism as furnishing the only nameable explanation of this universal order.
There he will find the very beginnings of things, the growing point, as it were, of all neuropathy.
We have seen how de Vick's clock contained, as it were, the germ of all our clocks.
Hunger, on the starting-line, as it were, for a race with death at the signal of opulence!
But this tide is discerned, as it were, through a dimness of weltering mist.
The crab lives in the whelk shell, and the Anemone lives on the roof, as it were.
No hand had overwritten the label of that book there raising it to the peerage, as it were.
This fold is lightly stretched over the edges of the eyelids, and forms, as it were, a third palpebra of a crescentic shape.
The conversation of these innocent and guileless lovers was, as it were, in unison with the placidness of the evening.
Now the potentilla shows us, as it were, the primitive form of the strawberry.
He was for ever showing and presenting it, as it were, to every creature whom he saw.
He had not yet taken up his sceptre, as it were, and had none of the manners of princedom.
He cannot prise open a man's heart with a crowbar, as it were, and force Himself inside.
It was only a puff which had come to my aid, as it were providentially, and had enabled me to gain my point.
The twopence was set aside for his funeral as it were, or rather for the rat-poison which would make the funeral necessary.
Then twelve of them were as it were our Vanguard, other twelve, our rearward.
Henceforward I could only learn, as it were, by ricochet what was going on.
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So figs are accounted fairest and ripest then, when they begin to shrink, and wither as it were.
By reading a man does as it were antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past.
It looks to me as if these eccentric wills of old Nutcombe's came in cycles, as it were.
The peruke, and, as it were, all that the peruke symbolized.
Today I went hopping and skipping to the office, for my heart was under your influence, and my soul was keeping holiday, as it were.
Before Paul arrived she had, as it were, been tuned up into his key.
The nation, as it were, sickened in a marasmus of intellectual inbreeding.
I remember feeling with Miles in especial as if he had had, as it were, no history.
He was touched by this easy and, as it were, natural display of probity.
An indifference as to roads and purposes makes one meeker, as it were.
Stuttgart was the fontanel, as it were, for the German muse.
It is possible that they do get a second as it were fractional life in us.
Her prow curvetted as it were the neck of a stallion, and a great wave of dark blue water seethed in her wake.
It was not a council of war, but, as it were, a council to elucidate certain questions for the Emperor personally.
After having my hands in it for only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to serpentine and spiralize.
As nothing escapes the piercing eyes of malice, Mademoiselle Thirion became, as it were, a sharer in the sudden emotion of master and pupil.
They formed beginnings, as it were, to guide the gouge or chisel.
It was quite dark, and round her swept as it were a whirlpool of snow.
She restored his belief in himself and put healing ointments, as it were, on all the bruises of his soul.
Haig paused, on one foot as it were, and looked over his shoulder.
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Then, in a flash, as it were, I remembered that it was on the half-cock.
It was because the people made other idols, in opposition, as it were, to Quitzel, that their city or country was destroyed.
This fund became a sort of text-book that was passed on, a part of the curriculum, as it were, of the school of Revolution.
They mummify the victim, as it were, and tuck him away for the morrow.
I recall as it were but yesterday the night of that momentous occasion upon which we were to test the practicality of that wondrous invention.
On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.
We pooled our vitality, as it were, and shared and shared alike.
It lies near the sea, as it were at the head of the archipelago.
Edouard felt as it were a portcullis of ice come down between her and him.
Mrs. Tidditt brought up the rear, marshaling the stragglers, as it were.
They were stranded, as it were, on some reef above a dense void.
And above all, the sign of the cross to that instrument was to us a great rejoicing, and as it were a certain presage of good.
But all the fellows depend on me to keep them au courant, as it were.
Moreover, it was, as it were, an accepted idea among us that Zverkov was a specialist in regard to tact and the social graces.
Does it mean that he was mumming, as it were, like a conjurer?
The air around suddenly vibrated and tingled, as it were, like the air over intensely heated plates of iron.
You know, I came out to this bally country on false pretences, as it were.
Soames noted a hollow in each cheek, made as it were by suction.
My heart leaped into my throat, as it were, and I made ready for battle.
They saw the flashes and the men falling and an invisible hand, as it were, lit the bushes as it hurried towards them through the twilight.
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The King of Navarre goeth at liberty, but as it were a prisoner.
But the gathering grew sad, benumbed, as it were, with lassitude.
I am, as it were, at home at that house, and every member of it knows me for their well-wisher.
She fled for refuge, as it were, to the public exposure, and dreaded the moment when its protection should be withdrawn from her.
He ate a little, three or four spoonfuls, without appetite, as it were mechanically.
His armour is laid upon the ground, and he stalks in front of the ranks as it were some great woolly ram ordering his ewes.
The sudden and amatory Seeders had, as it were, performed for her a miraculous piece of one-day laundry work.
At most times I am as a yearling lamb, but when one cometh between me and my meat, I am a raging lion, as it were.
Touchingly and awfully drawn together, he and the little mad woman were side by side and, as it were, alone.
And hence, he says, matter is as it were the stool of the One.
The cells of our own bodies are to-day living, as it were, in an ocean.
His object was to purify French, and, as it were, to centralize it.
They were chaperoned, too, as it were, by their heavy wraps.
Clean or tainted, hot or stale, Hold it as it were the Trail, Through the day and through the night, Questing neither left nor right.
He walks about as it were a public place, and he pries everywhere.
The next moment he had set out to circumnavigate, as it were.
The haste, and, as it were, the galvanic impulse of the movement, were really quite startling.
We are now in the new covenant, in a third world, as it were.
Cornelius put his hand on his heart, to repress as it were its violent palpitation, and listened.
Their music puts, as it were, a knife edge upon the heat of the day.
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The man to whom Our Excellency has awarded the land is, as it were, his maternal uncle.
The present lamprey eel has marks, as it were, of holes in his sides.
She resents, for all the world like some high little personage, the imputation on her truthfulness and, as it were, her respectability.
The stifling and devitalized air set their nerves on edge, as it were.
Immediately both dived, and became as it were non-existent on this sphere.
Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.
It was the beginning of my real life, my coming of age as it were, and entering into my kingdom.
Selkirk on this occasion saw war, as it were from the dress circle.
Many monasteries were founded which became, as it were, the lighthouses of learning and religion.
Indeed, they sometimes dive below this line, as it were by mistake, and are undeceived.
And this kind of Benedictory Power is the fount or type or natural origin, as it were, of all others.
They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.
Gagniere did not hear, but continued talking, enraptured, as it were.
The whole of the surrounding country is, as it were, eviscerated.
But I can't quite make the leap of unfaith, as it were, and say, 'This is it.
The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and as it were clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.
When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it were, so fit.
Voices grew loud and angry, and a hundred savages appeared, as it were, by magic, where a dozen only had been seen a minute before.
But her eyes remained very keen, sharpened as it were by ferocity.
Upon the large square in front of the hotel, the shadows of the tents, intersected by the golden moonbeams, formed as it were a huge mosaic of jet and yellow flagstones.