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found in full orchestras

The celesta is only found in full orchestras; when it is not available it should be replaced by an upright piano, and not the glockenspiel .
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

faith in fées or

Even where the peasants have no faith in fées or fairies, and where their [Pg 213] faith in corrigans is weak or almost gone, there is a strong conviction among them that the souls of the dead can show themselves to the living, a vigorous belief in apparitions, phantom-funerals, and various death-warnings.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

from its followers one

For philology is that venerable art which exacts from its followers one thing above all—to step to one side, to leave themselves spare moments, to grow silent, to become slow—the leisurely art of the goldsmith applied to language: an art which must carry out slow, fine work, and attains nothing if not lento .
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

fullan in full of

be fullan in full : (of time)
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

flirted it far off

And so shouting, he pulled his hat from his head, and stamped up and down on it; then picking it up, flirted it far off upon the sea; and finally fell to rearing and plunging in the boat’s stern like a crazed colt from the prairie.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

foe in fight o

These, these and many a Rákshas more, Each master of the arms he bore, [pg 482] Who every foe in fight o'erthrew, The victors none could e'er subdue, Have perished by the might of one, The vengeful arm of Raghu's son.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

further impulses from on

Day after day he had further impulses from on high that he was called upon to cure the ague also.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

face is full of

The broad face is full of intelligence, and the large gray eyes are lighted up with a good-natured but quizzical look that invariably attracts attention.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

faithful in front of

One evening, when Swann had consented to dine with the Verdurins, and had mentioned during dinner that he had to attend, next day, the annual banquet of an old comrades' association, Odette had at once exclaimed across the table, in front of everyone, in front of Forcheville, who was now one of the 'faithful,' in front of the painter, in front of Cottard: "Yes, I know, you have your banquet to-morrow; I sha'n't see you, then, till I get home; don't be too late.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

feeling in favour of

There is a strong feeling in favour of arbitration on the part of all classes of society.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

fall if fate ordained

Well, no matter; Kimberley would fight on, constitute a "new Capital," perhaps, or fall, if fate ordained it, with its face to the foe.
— from The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters by T. Phelan

fairly in front of

"Thank you, Henri; thank you; the moment I am fairly in front of him, I shall fire at his eyes, and no doubt lodge both balls in them.
— from Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle

figures in front of

We drifted on slowly with the mass, and at last came to a standstill before a wedge of figures in front of a prominent canvas.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross

foolish in face of

[Pg 185] more awful in contrast to it; the words struck him as most intensely foolish in face of the majesty of nature which surrounded him.
— from Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma: A Tale of the Burmese Jungle by G. (George) Norway

from in front of

At the sound Giraldo arrested the motion that he had already made to fling himself on the Princess; whether to kill her, or only to thrust her away from in front of the picture she did not know.
— from The Heart of Princess Osra by Anthony Hope

feeling is found on

But still more important is the fact that a great deal of assumed religious feeling is found on analysis to be little more than masked sexuality.
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen

formed in favour of

The ape, therefore, notwithstanding his resemblance to the human form, is a brute, and so far from being second in our species, he is not even the first in the order of animals, because he is not the most intelligent among them; therefore it is only on account of the corporeal resemblance that prejudice has been formed in favour of the great faculties of the ape.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

fell into fervours over

They were all men of hearty manners and many enthusiasms,—who quoted Burns and dined to the immortal bard's honour every 25th of January; who told interminable Scotch stories, and fell into fervours over national sports, dishes, drinks, and religions.
— from The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan

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