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unpleasant nervous shiver creeping over me
Arguing from this, and from the fact that Simonet did not respond to my shouts, which I continued to utter at intervals, I [303] began to feel an extremely unpleasant nervous shiver creeping over me, suggestive of all the horrors about which I had ever read or dreamed.
— from Stories and Sketches by our best authors by Various

upon nearly similar characters only more
I may here observe that the difference between the Irish and English hare rests upon nearly similar characters, only more strongly marked.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

usually not so clear or mellow
The song is most nearly like that of the Audubon Warbler but usually not so clear or mellow.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

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