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garments of dissimulation courtesy and second thought
I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness, with which one chemical atom meets another.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

gift of divine clairvoyance and separated the
[174] The hidden manna is the ambrosia of the Greeks, the kyteon of the mysteries of Eleusis, the soma of the Hindus, the eucharist of the Christians, the sacred drink offered to the disciples at Initiation, which had the Moon as its symbol, conferred the gift of divine clairvoyance and separated the soul from the body.
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

glimmer of day came and started to
It froze hard that night and the cold was intense; in the morning we were up as soon as a glimmer of day came, and started to cross the range of mountains.
— from Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion by G. Hamilton-Browne

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