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in mountain peaks Of shadow That seamed
At times the moon, erupting, streaks Some long cloud, raised in mountain peaks Of shadow,— That, seamed with silver, vein on vein, Grows to a far volcano chain Of Eldorado.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 3 (of 5) Nature poems by Madison Julius Cawein

in many parts of Scotland that should
It was a notion formerly prevalent in many parts of Scotland that should a servant wilfully kill a spider, she would certainly break a piece of crockery or glass before the day was out.
— from Domestic folk-lore by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

into my private office so to speak
The fact is he surprised me spying and was all for shooting me up, but I induced him to come into my private office, so to speak, and the rest was easy—he dopes, doesn't he?
— from The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

in most parts of Siberia the sun
The winter is perhaps the healthiest season, but even then, when in most parts of Siberia the sun is shining in a cloudless sky, Tobolsk is wreathed in damp mists from the fever swamps surrounding it.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

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