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bitterness and reproach she could

Her husband might put her to shame and turn her out, Vronsky might grow cold to her and go on living his own life apart (she thought of him again with bitterness and reproach); she could not leave her son.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

but are really secretly considered

Yet it must be observed that, in order to deceive themselves, men prearrange what seem to be hasty errors, but are really secretly considered actions.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

BROWN AND RED STAG Call

JACKAL Laughing Cry-"Wahwah-wah-wah-wah." GRAY AND BLACK RAVEN Cry-"Kar-kaw" BLACK BUFFALO Lowing (same as Bull) "Um-maouw" RED AND WHITE PEACOCK Cry-"Bee-oik" GREEN AND BLUE BULL Lowing-"Um-maouw" RED SEAL Call-"Hark" RED AND BLACK OWL Whistle "Koot-koot-koo" BLUE TIGER Purr-"Grrrao" VIOLET LION Roar-"Eu-Ugh" YELLOW AND RED KANGAROO Call-"Coo-ee" RED AND GRAY HORSE Whinney-"Hee-e-e-e" BLACK AND WHITE {21} FOX Bark-"Ha-ha" YELLOW AND GREEN BEAR Growl-"Boorrr" BROWN AND RED STAG Call-"Baow" VIOLET AND BLACK STORK Cry-"Korrr" BLUE AND WHITE PANTHER Tongue in side of mouth--"Keeook" YELLOW CURLEW Whistle--"Curley" GREEN HYENA Laughing Cry-"Ooowah-oowah-wah" YELLOW AND BROWN RAM Bleat--"Ba-a-a" BROWN WOOD PIGEON Call--"Book-hooroo" BLUE AND GRAY EAGLE Very shrill cry--"Kreeee" GREEN AND BLACK HIPPO Hiss-"Brrussssh" PINK AND BLACK RATTLESNAKE Rattle a pebble in a small potted meat tin.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

by a rugine strongly curved

The upper part is surmounted by a rugine strongly curved, pointed at the tip and cutting on one edge.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

beat a Russian soldier cruelly

Pierre saw a Frenchman beat a Russian soldier cruelly for straying too far from the road, and heard his friend the captain reprimand and threaten to court-martial a noncommissioned officer on account of the escape of the Russian.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

by a red screen Chinese

It was not a large room, and was divided in two parts by a red screen, “Chinese,” as Fyodor Pavlovitch used to call it.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But a report soon circulated

104 But a report soon circulated through the camp, at first in secret whispers, and at length in loud clamors, of the emperor's death, and of the presumption of his ambitious minister, who still exercised the sovereign power in the name of a prince who was no more.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But a report soon circulated

But a report soon circulated through the camp, at first in secret whispers, and at length in loud clamors, of the emperor's death, and of the presumption of his ambitious minister, who still exercised the sovereign power in the name of a prince who was no more.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

by a rhythmic snarling chant

The prisoners’ conversation was abruptly interrupted by a rhythmic, snarling chant from the vast horde of rat-men in the cavern above.
— from Devil Crystals of Arret by Hal K. Wells

been a real secret Constance

Had it been a real secret, Constance would have been adamant.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

been a remote superb chill

There had been a remote, superb chill about it.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

by a radium salt comes

By distilling off the emanation from some radium bromide, and measuring the quantities of heat given off by the emanation and the radium salt respectively, Professors Rutherford and Barnes [109] proved that nearly three-fourths of the total amount of heat given out by a radium salt comes from the minute quantity of emanation that it contains.
— from Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoveries in Physical Science on the Other Hand; Together with Some Particulars Regarding the Lives and Teachings of the Most Noted Alchemists by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove

be all right said Corny

"Well, then, that will be all right," said Corny; "and how about a crown and sceptre?"
— from A Jolly Fellowship by Frank Richard Stockton

but a religious subject could

In the same way, at a time when nothing but a religious subject could create interest, that sort of composition came to be applied to acts of saints and martyrs; so that many books and narratives which we have of that description may be thus accounted for.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

blue and red stripes covering

Woman—Dirty cotton cloth, with blue and red stripes, covering body and reaching below the knees.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

brand and run stolen cattle

Is any sane rustler going to use his own brand, and run stolen cattle with his legitimate stock, in a place where folks can always see ’em?
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum

borne and reared seven children

As for Eric's wife—why she had borne and reared seven children; therefore he should not have felt the least bit uneasy.
— from The Emperor of Portugallia by Selma Lagerlöf

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