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take a breath long enough to sing
The young student imagines he must inflate the lungs almost to bursting, in order that he may take a breath long enough to sing a phrase.
— from Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others by Harriette Brower

them are barely large enough to support
Whatever their real number they all are beautiful, although some of them are barely large enough to support a flagstaff, and they all seem to fit into the scene so thoroughly that each one seems necessary to complete the charm.
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

to a boat large enough to seat
Twenty-five nobles, well and richly clad in fine silk and scarlet cloth, bade him welcome and conducted him to a boat, large enough to seat forty persons, covered with satin cramoisy and richly carpeted.
— from Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey

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