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much in demand in recent seasons
An exception to this may be found in the light-weight fabrics so much in demand in recent seasons for wearing in an intermediate position in winter whilst in summer they are worn outermost for lightness.
— from Hosiery Manufacture by Davis, William, M.A.

miraged into double its real size
The high artificial mound of the Yezidi village, crowned by a modern mud-built castle, had been visible in the distance long before we reached it, miraged into double its real size, and into an imposing group of towers and fortifications.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

monarch is depicted in regal state
[Pg 620] able:—A book of emblazonment executed for Prince Arthur, the brother of Henry VIII., who died young, and whose widow Henry married; the Warwick Roll, a series of figures of all the Earls of Warwick from the Conquest to the reign of Richard III., executed by Rouse, a celebrated antiquary of Warwick, at the close of the fifteenth century; and a tournament roll of Henry VIII., in which that stalwart monarch is depicted in regal state, with all the "pomp, pride, and circumstance of glorious (mimic) war."
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury


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