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felt a little lost a little strange
Yes, it was a strangely picturesque and charming old house, this Hôtel Saint Ange; but even so Nancy felt a little lost, a little strange, standing there under the porte cochère.
— from The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

fur and looks like a little spider
Among the many parasites which attack these little animals we find, besides the acaridæ, a Pteroptus of great agility, which seems, as it were, to swim among the fur, and looks like a little spider or a microscopic crab.
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden

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