"flamma" hidden in books

flying lights and mystic moons and

Here were flying lights, and mystic moons, and dream-music.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

frogs louder and more melancholy and

As the train waited, John heard from miles of marshes round about the evening song of millions of frogs, louder and more melancholy and entreating than the vesper call of the bells.
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner

foreman lingering a moment me and

“We KIN keep him out,” suggested the foreman, lingering a moment; “me and him,” indicating the expectant printer behind him, “is enough for that.”
— from Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte

forth like a mighty man and

As he deals gently, like a father, so he can punish capitally as a judge: though he holds his peace for a long time, yet at last he will go forth like a mighty man, and stir up jealousy, as a man of war, to cut in pieces his enemies.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

friends left and Mr McGibony a

In the South we have a few friends left, and Mr. McGibony, a detective, is one of them.
— from The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

foreign lands and much more accustomed

The merchants of the Royal Exchange, much better acquainted than the country gentlemen with foreign lands, and much more accustomed than the country gentlemen to take large views, were in great agitation.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Fool like as most men are

Fool like, as most men are in the case of handsome and well gowned women, he responds to the invitation, an acquaintance is formed and an assignation made.
— from Chicago, Satan's Sanctum by L. O. Curon

fringed leggings and moccasins more a

For many of them wear buckskin hunting shirts, fringed leggings, and moccasins; more a costume peculiar to the savage.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

friends Lamennais and Montalembert made an

Some fifty years ago, the cathedral, and, indeed, all Paris, was stirred by the conférences held there by one of S. Dominic's own children, Père Lacordaire, who, with his friends Lamennais and Montalembert, made an effort to free the Roman branch of the Catholic Church from the fungi which had grown on to it, an effort which was as fruitless as that undertaken by his predecessor Savonarola, 400 years before him.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale

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