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not a light in the

From the cellars to the roofs, from the ground-floors to the garrets, there was not a light in the house.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

not a little intoxicated toward

One night there was a party at Mr. Barnard’s, and both Augustus and myself were not a little intoxicated toward the close of it.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

not a little indebted to

And here I must not forget that I am not a little indebted to his friend Mr. Hargrave.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

nothing about life is to

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

not a lady in the

But it will be taken in the lump; that here is Mr. B——, with such and such an estate, has married his mother's waiting-maid: not considering there is not a lady in the kingdom that can out-do her, or better support the condition to which she will be raised, if I should marry her.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

nightdress and looked into the

She sat at the open window in her nightdress and looked into the street.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

new and lately invented terms

Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta —And new and lately invented terms will be well received, if they descend, with slight deviation, from a Grecian source.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

now a little inappropriately that

Besides, I have quite made up my mind to see that suspicious personage of whom Mavriky Nikolaevitch said just now, a little inappropriately, that it was impossible to receive him.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

not a little infected their

It is certain, the light talkative Humour of the French has not a little infected their Tongue, which might be shown by many Instances; as the Genius of the Italians , which is so much addicted to Musick and Ceremony, has moulded all their Words and Phrases to those particular Uses.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

nominally and left it to

It was at this period that Burton, thanking his stars or his gods, withdrew from the share in the management which he had held nominally, and left it to Golden to complete the triumph of daring and good fortune.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

new and less impressive title

This Union, be it remembered, would in such a case be nothing but Great Britain under a new and less impressive title.
— from England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey

narrow and low in the

The room in which I found myself was long, narrow, and low in the ceiling; and being hung with some dark stuff which swallowed up the light, terminated funereally at the farther end in the still deeper gloom of an alcove.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

never a lad in the

The shepherds from the hills went to and fro, marching and countermarching, wheeling and charging, porting musket and thrusting pike, till all Kernsberg was little better than a barracks, and the maidens sat wet-eyed at their knitting by the fire and thought, "Well for Her to please herself whom she shall marry—but how about us, with never a lad in the town to whistle us out in the gloaming, or to thumb a pebble against the window-lattice from the deep edges of the ripening corn?"
— from Joan of the Sword Hand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

not absolutely lacking in the

Red veins and red streaks on the fruits afford a striking differentiating mark, though they are not absolutely lacking in the parent-species.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

not a lance in the

But no; the long lances and streaming pennons at once dissipated the hope: there was not a lance in the American army.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

never alarmed living in the

A dark, meridional physiognomy, a quick; alert, imposing head; jet black, close-clipped hair; a bold eagle's face, with full, bright, restless eye; a man rarely reposing, always ready, never alarmed; living in the saddle, with harness on his back—such was t
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

not as lovely in the

They are not as lovely in the woodlands as their earlier coming neighbor, the shy, pure Hepatica.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

night and light idle talk

CHAPTER IV WHICH CONCERNS POLITICS AND OTHER LOCAL MATTERS It was an odd sight against the setting of pretty night and light, idle talk.
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

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