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freshly a little scared as

They had, as it were, an extent and mass for which I had not been prepared and in the presence of which I found myself, freshly, a little scared as well as a little proud.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

fill as little space as

Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as possible.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

feeling a little strange at

Despairing of getting into unembarrassed talk with such a centaur, Captain Delano, after glancing round for a more promising countenance, but seeing none, spoke pleasantly to the blacks to make way for him; and so, amid various grins and grimaces, returned to the poop, feeling a little strange at first, he could hardly tell why, but upon the whole with regained confidence in Benito Cereno.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

follow a long speech and

Here occurs a sort of interlude, which commences with a declaration on the part of Socrates that he cannot follow a long speech, and therefore he must beg Protagoras to speak shorter.
— from Protagoras by Plato

from air land stream and

Then Arthur made vast banquets, and strange knights From the four winds came in: and each one sat, Though served with choice from air, land, stream, and sea, Oft in mid-banquet measuring with his eyes
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

fresh and lovely sight A

And close beside this aged thorn, There is a fresh and lovely sight, A beauteous heap, a hill of moss, Just half a foot in height.
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

fair and lively scarlet and

The sixth red was at first of a very fair and lively scarlet, and soon after of a brighter Colour, being very pure and brisk, and the best of all the reds.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

father and little sister and

I think we, Teacher, and my father and little sister, and myself, will visit Washington next March!!!
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

for a little spur above

The spot in the lowest median interspace is nearly or quite as large as the previous, but longitudinal instead of transverse, and as broad as the interspace; excepting for a little spur above on the inner side, which runs a little way toward the base, the centre of the spot would lie just below the second divarication of the median nervure, but by means of this slight spur the spot extends baseward half way from the second to the first divarication of the median nervure; at the outer extremity the spot terminates squarely and next the lowest median nervule is two-sevenths the length of that vein.
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

for a little sit alone

He must, for a little, sit alone with the fact, face it, adjust himself to it.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

fooles A ll such as

I nstruct thy selfe in numbring Schooles; N ow courtiers vse to begge for fooles, A ll such as cannot number.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir

fall at lower stages and

There are abundant grounds for believing that this has happened in the case of the Nile, and one reason why the same effect has not been more sensibly perceptible in the Po is, that the confinement of the current by continuous embankements gives it a high-water velocity sufficient to sweep out deposits let fall at lower stages and slower movements of the water.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

for a long sojourn and

The girl had come into the North fully prepared for a long sojourn, and in her thirty-odd tons of outfit were found all tools necessary for the clearing of land and the erection of buildings.
— from The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

From a literature survey and

Nest: From a literature survey and personal observations, Miller and Bock (1972) summarized the following nest-tree data for 57 nests: 23 percent in oak, 19 percent in willow, 18 percent in sycamore, 16 percent in cottonwood, and 12 percent in alder.
— from Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests Agriculture Handbook 511 by Charles P. Stone

feet and laughing softly at

She went on swinging her feet and laughing softly at me over Jimmy's shoulder.
— from The Belfry by May Sinclair

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