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release emancipate loose urge
ANT: Indulge, liberate, release, emancipate, loose, urge, free, incite, instigate, impel.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

raise exaggerate lift up
SYN: Exalt, increase, enhance, intensify, color, vivify, aggravate, raise, exaggerate, lift up, amplify.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

religious eye looking upward
Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring, with religious eye looking upward, counts itself nothing and abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

red eastern light upon
Whom would they discern there, with the red eastern light upon his brow?
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

right ears long used
These were known by their coats and pantaloons of black or brown, made to sit comfortably, with white cravats and waistcoats, broad solid-looking shoes, and thick hose or gaiters.—They had all slightly bald heads, from which the right ears, long used to pen-holding, had an odd habit of standing off on end.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

rencontres entre les utilisateurs
Elle organise des rencontres entre les utilisateurs et les éditeurs juridiques et de bases de données, ainsi qu'une journée annuelle sur un thème.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

raise exalt lift up
[‘ athold ’] oðhebban 6 to raise, exalt, lift up , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

recollect emphasis laid upon
It was all so quietly done too: the stinging gibe, the light and flashing jest, that the young tutor sometimes thought the whole must have received point and peculiar application from the manner; but yet he could not recollect emphasis laid upon any word; and he carried away from that table, when he retired to rest at night, much matter for thought upon all that he had seen, and many a deep feeling re-awakened in his heart, which he had hoped and trusted had been laid asleep by the power of reason, and the struggle of a strong mind against a warm and enthusiastic heart.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

real existence Locke unsystematically
Besides real existence Locke, unsystematically enough, enumerates three other sorts of agreement between ideas,—in the perception of which he makes knowledge consist,—viz., identity or diversity (blue is not yellow), relation (when equals are added to equals the results are equal), and coexistence or necessary connexion (gold is fixed).
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

rapt exalted look upon
[Pg 313] with unshed tears, there was a rapt, exalted look upon it which awed the grandchild into silence.
— from The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond

resumed Eve looking up
"Father!" resumed Eve, looking up as she still knelt between the knees of Mr. Effingham, and smiling fondly in the face of him
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

replied Euphra looking up
“I will try,” replied Euphra, looking up at Hugh with a naïve expression of shyness, and the slightest possible blush.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald


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