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been a keen sense of

Her chief characteristics seem to have been a keen sense of humour and an amiable temper, so we need not suppose that it was merely a sense of duty towards the family of a departed comrade that afterwards induced the admirable Ludwig Geyer to enter into matrimony with her when she was no longer youthful, but rather that he was impelled to that step by a sincere and warm regard for the widow of his friend.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

besides a keen sense of

But he had besides a keen sense of artistic values.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Boissiere and keep straight on

We leave the highroad at La Boissiere and keep straight on to the top of the Leux hill, whence the valley is seen.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

by a keen sense of

Fireside Conversation was an exercise in scholarship illumined by a keen sense of character.
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

by a kelp shore of

The landlord, however, whose estate is bounded by a kelp shore of this kind, demands a rent for it as much as for his corn-fields.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

bees are kept some other

In addition to the hives in which the bees are kept some other apparatus is necessary.
— from Bees by Everett Franklin Phillips

Bud and Kit stood on

Bud and Kit stood on either side of her, to protect her from the remarks of the disgruntled gamblers.
— from Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious by Edward C. Taylor

battle and killed some of

A. We fought them right hard during the battle, and killed some of them.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

became a keen supporter of

While the Douglas case was exciting its utmost interest, Boswell became a keen supporter of the claimant, Mr. Archibald Douglas; and in November, 1767, produced a pamphlet entitled “The Essence of the Douglas Cause.”
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

Boissière and keep straight on

We leave the highroad at La Boissière and keep straight on to the top of the Leux hill, whence the valley is seen.
— from Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gustave Flaubert

brink A kingfisher sits on

Over the wave, by the crystal brink, A kingfisher sits on a low, dead limb: He is always sitting there, I think,— And another, within the crystal brink, Is always looking up at him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

babies a keen sensibility of

Mr. Johnson laughed at the incongruous ideas, but the first thing which presented itself to the mind of an ingenious and learned friend whom I had the pleasure to pass some time with here at Florence was the same resemblance, though I think the two characters had little in common, further than an early attention to things beyond the capacity of other babies, a keen sensibility of right and wrong, and a warmth of imagination little consistent with sound and perfect health.
— from Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Lynch Piozzi

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