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a few seconds comes a possessing sense
With my eyes open my mind still sleeps—but in a few seconds comes a possessing sense of well-being.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

a form so clear and precise sanctioned
For nothing is just like this happiness of love, this sharing of a mystery between two persons, which approaches human beings in the form of unspeakable bliss, yet in a form so clear and precise, sanctioned and sanctified by the priest, and endowed with a name so mellifluously fine that no other word sounds half so sweet as Love.
— from Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales by Gottfried Keller

applied for Soviet citizenship and produced some
He denied an earlier statement that he had applied for Soviet citizenship, and produced some evidence that he had never been declared a Soviet citizen.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

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