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trousers and tucked up my shirt
I immediately unbuttoned my braces and let down my trousers and tucked up my shirt under my waistcoat, then, bringing my leg over the horse so as to sit on one side in her own fashion, exposed everything to her view.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

trousers and turned up my shirt
A slight rustling noise I made attracted her attention, and looking up from her book, she beheld my almost naked body with the most prominent object of it standing fiercely erect, for I had let down my trousers and turned up my shirt so as to afford her a complete view of my person.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

to arouse the unconscious man shaking
She discarded the pole and tried to arouse the unconscious man, shaking and pounding him vigorously.
— from Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

taken at the usual moulting season
The clip is taken at the usual moulting season during the spring of the year.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

to attack the Unitarian Mussulman so
[Pg 54] away and who availed themselves of the hope for absolution in the promise of the pope to those who fought for the Holy Tomb, thought it ridiculous to attack the Unitarian Mussulman so far away, when the Unitarian Jew who had slain the Lord was close at hand.
— from Peter the Hermit: A Tale of Enthusiasm by Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) Goodsell

to accomplish things usually moved swiftly
With Betty to think and Esther to accomplish, things usually moved swiftly.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows by Margaret Vandercook

them and their unusually minute size
They form almost the only food of hosts of creatures of the sea, but because of their floating freely in the water, the consequent difficulty of collecting them, and their unusually minute size, little is likely to be known of them, except by the experts.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor


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