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it should not euer stand still
[Pg cxv] 'Beams' and 'sunbeams' are favourite words with Davies: so too 'mirror.' (4) "Time weare very vngratefull, if it should not euer stand still, to serue and preserue, cherish and delight her, that is the glory of her time, and makes the Time happy wherein she liueth" ( Ibid p. 251).
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir

in surprise not expecting so sudden
Tearing it open indifferently, he started up in surprise, not expecting so sudden a culmination of the difficulty.
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson

icate short nose ever so slightly
[Pg 27] icate, short nose, ever so slightly arched, and its lips, just a trifle too sensuous—and that soft lock astray again against her cheek.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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