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a something of’s, panoptic
 

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1630	a something of some few dimensions, a span-long, and yet this is but a tanquam nihil	Humphrey Sydenham	The Royall Passing-Bell	2738
1655	The one made as rare a something, of nothing, as ever I heard. Well may these plashes of water	Richard Younge	The People’s Impartial, and Compassionate Monitor	2771
1696	she is at least aliquid ipsius, a something of that that very same, tho not the same it self	Owen Feltham	Resolves : Divine, Moral, Political
1726	but Art’s too mean a Name, ’t must be a Something of superior Frame.	Daniel Defoe	On the Deaf and Dumb being taught to Speak
1726	a sneer, a something of a witty stroke of contempt. It happened	Fulke Greville	Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
1760	[A.] something of acknowledged and received authority; well attested	John Marchant	A new complete English Dictionary
1760	MOMENTAˊNEOUS or MOˊMENTARY (A.) something of very	Thomas Dyche	A new general English dictionary; Peculiarly calculated &c., &c.	2752
1792	with a something of additional colour	Mrs. Gunning	Anecdotes of the Delborough Family	2737
1793	a something of the mule kind betwixt God and man.	An Archaeological Dictionary; or, Classical Antiquities of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans
1794	a something of absurdity	An Historical Miscellany of the Curiosities & Rarities in Nature & Art		2738
1794	a something of constraint and confusion in many passages	Mrs. Gunning	Memoirs of Mary, A Novel	2733
1796	a something of which running water	Mr. Marshall, on “Roads”	Rural Economy of the Midland Counties	2738
1799	In all its uses it commonly implies something of a bad quality	Samuel Johnson	A Dictionary of the English Language (OCR error)
1807	aware of a something of the same nature, since	Literary Panorama	Considerations upon the Trade with India
1808	in new series of invention. Yet a something of consistency	Francis Lathom	The Fatal Vow; or, St. Michael’s Monastery	2762
1808	a something of diffuseness and protraction	Malcolm Laing	The History of Scotland, review of his	2748
1808	There certainly was a something of the air and figure; but a lapse of years had made a great difference, as is naturally to be expected.	Sarah Wilkinson	The Child of Mystery, A Novel, in three volumes, Founded on Recent Events	2788
1814	a something of the same nature whenever Here was again a something of the same	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park
1814	but also a something of personal malice. It is unworthy	regarding Robert Southey	The Analectic Magazine
1815	still a something of the day	Byron	Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage	2738
1816	nor grouped according to their contents : so that a something of wholeness and connection seems wanting	Benjamin Heyne	Tracts, Historical and Statistical, on India, review of
1816	a something of resentment and never without a something of pleasing connection	Jane Austen	Emma
1817	there is a something of hospitality	Morris Birkbeck	Notes on a Journey in America
1817	an air of reproof in this remark; a something of asperity, that Cornelia could not understand	Miss Jane Porter	The Pastor’s Fire-Side
1818	a something of solicitude remained, from which sprang the following question, thoroughly artless in itself, though rather distressing to the gentleman	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey
1818	A something of languid indifference, or of that boasted absence of mind	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey
1818	a quicker step behind, a something of familiar sound	Jane Austen	Persuasion	2738
1819	she seems quite at home in songs that hold a middle place between the ballad and the scientific a something of distrust and overniceness in it; but this may wear off	“The Theatrical Examiner, No. 376,” performances at Covent Garden, in The Examiner		2760
1820	do you mean a something of... do you mean a sort of inward light?	Letter II to Mr. Canning	Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register
1821	and a something of interest	Mrs Kelly (Isabella?)	The Fatalists; or, Records of 1814 and 1815. A Novel.	2762
1822	over the whole surface of his composition a something of	review of [The Rev. H. H.] Milman’s The Martyr of Antioch, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
1822	of mind; and a something of	Charles Symmons	The Life of John Milton
1823	I have, it is true, in all the instances I have yet brought, adduced examples connected with words, and consequently with definite ideas. which anticipates in these sounds a something of moment to come	On the philosophy of musical composition, No. 6. in The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review		2760
1824	and that a something of deception	“Observations on the Modern Drama” in The Literary Magnet		2749
1824	without a something of a certain kind, nothing of	a Christian Friend to Truth	The Theological Reasoner, or The mysteries of Divinity Explained
1825	a something of more tenderness	Cecilia Caddell	Massenburg. A tale
1825	but there is a something of a heat of mind, or an irritation	A Digest of the Evidence in the Second Report of the Select Committee on the State of Ireland		2749
1825	a certain softness, a something of easy satisfaction	Miss C. E. Cary	Memoirs of, (Written by Herself)
1825	a something of that awe, which the gray monuments themselves might be supposed to inspire I felt my mind almost giving way. I had been long among the mad, and had listened to their ravings when terrors all ideal menaced them; here, there was a something of a reality, such as I had never dreamed of	Joseph Moyle Sherer	The Story of a Life	2785
1825	a something of dignity and freedom, will learn at first, a something of that disappointment a something of the disturbance of disdain; there is the attitude       But I am forgetting my prudent resolve.	Joseph Moyle Sherer	Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy.	2785
1826	a very dexterous kind of doctrine — a something of a special plea	Speech by Mr. Tierney, re: the “Paper Currency and Commercial Distress” in Parliamentary History and Review
1826	a something of melancholy foreboding her beautiful but hectic bloom	—	“The Sisters. — A Sketch.” La Belle Assemblée	2742
1826	a something, of the essence of which we know nothing a something, of the essence of which we are entirely ignorant	Thomas Brown	Account of the Life and Writings of
1827	a something of softness and expression that might almost be called beauty a something of the painter’s perceptions and of the poet’s feelings a something of military pomp, a something of feudal display relaxed a something of their pride	Joseph Moyle Sherer	Notes and reflections during a ramble in Germany	2785
1828	a something of solemnity, which, while	Inquiry into the Right or Justice of the Punishment of Death, in The Oriental Herald
1828	and that curative agency is resolvable into a something of change	David Uwins	A Treatise on those Diseases which Are Either Directly or Indirectly Connected with Indigestion	2738
1829	happy production, a something of this truth was discernible	Edward Bulwer Lytton	review of Devereux in The Westminster Review
1829	wants what is much easier to feel, than describe, a something of order and the result of cultivated perceptions	Timothy Flint	“A Tour” in The Western Monthly Review
1829	the writer knew a something of its value	Joseph Moyle Sherer	“The Lady of Cordova; or, The Spanish Brother,” in Tales of the Wars of Our Times	2785
1830	that I could extract a something, of my tragic, at least	Byron	entry for January 28, 1821, in Letters and Journals of	2762
1830	but there is a something of obscurity in the arrangement, which	Gabriel Surenne	The Pocket French Grammatical and Critical Dictionary, review of his
1830	A something of care, and a something less taxes	W. J. Freeman	“Something.” An Original Comic Song...
1831	and a something of self in all their speculations	Byron	letter dated November 10, 1822	2762
1831	a something of which a something of which, as of time, in a dreamless sleep	Thomas Hope	Essay on the Origin & Prospects of Man	2728
1831	a something of which he connects	Thomas Hope	An Essay on the Origin and Prospects of Man
1831	tar, a something of light heart	—	“The Foundling of Liverpool,” in The Ladies’ Museum	2738
1832	and a something of gloom	Mrs. Hemans	“Nature’s Farewell,” in The Poetical Works of
1832	with grave politeness, and with a something of displeasure lurking	Miss Macleod	Geraldine Hamilton; or, Self-guidance. A Tale
1834	there was a troubled pleasure in her air; a something of regret	Mary Russell Mitford (doubtful)	The Rival Sisters; With other poems
1834	and sweet (though with a something of severe)	Edward Bulwer Lytton	his The Pilgrims of the Rhine, review of in The American Monthly Magazine
1834	romance, a something of	Maria Edgeworth	her Helen — A Tale, review of in The American Monthly Magazine
1834	a something of that restlessness, which looks forward to the endurance even of pain	“Passages from the Life of Mary Stuart,” The American Monthly Magazine		2738
1834	A something of the heaven’s own light,       Which words could never speak.	“Linus”	“The Ruin” in The American Monthly Magazine	2738
1834	a something of more than common interest, of even awful in the very sound of “The West”	Mark Bancroft (William Darby)	“Mark Lee’s Narrative” in Atkinson’s Casket	2749
1835	even the library was so selected; a something of ethereal delicacy	Mrs. Kentish	The Maid of the Village ; Or, The Farmer’s Daughter of the Woodlands.	2768
1835	a paper having been left near her by accident, she took it up a something of the glow around her: it seemed	Ellen Pickering	Agnes Serle.
1836	a something of bitterness felt and expressed	Charlotte Bury	The Devoted
1836	(attending to this only) to conclude a something of six feet	C. Smart, translator	The works of Horace	2760
1836	have always lost a something of their freshness	Captain Moyle Sherer	Military Memoirs of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington
1836	that with every portion of error there is mixed a something of truth. During my collegiate course, therefore, I adopted a system of reading, which	Rev. J. Taylor	speech of, in The Bible Christian
1836	of purpose, but the face wants a something of the intelligence and expansive views	William Hazlitt	“The Vatican,” in Literary Remains of
1836	and a something of attraction in the prospect of one more bachelor spring at a London hotel	Mrs. Gore	Mrs. Armytage; or, Female domination	2747
1838	gave a something of reality to their pretensions, which softened if it could not altogether remove the ridicule	Mrs. Trollope	A romance of Vienna	2749
1838	With a something of joy and a something of care	Frederick W. Mant	“The Rubi, A Tale of the Sea” in The Dublin University Magazine
1838	a something of a darkish appearance presented itself; a clap of thunder, which soon died away	Denis Cronin	An Essay on the Causes, Nature, and Treatment of Deafness
1838	It may be, still a something of the day, When they were braided	Mrs. Kentish	The Gipsy Family ; Or, The Elfin Boy. An Original and Highly Interesting Tale.	2768
1839	a something of the undying mind, the kakoetheia scribendi, the non monis moriar	William H. Prescott	History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, review of in The Quarterly Review
1839	a something of personal feeling	G. B. (Gracilla Boddington)	St. Paul’s first Epistle to the Corinthians explained in simple and familiar language
1839	something of melancholy, too, on his countenance	J. R. W. Lomas	The Duel in High Life: or, De La Macy and Emily Clifforde
1839	Then the lowering fog was together brought, And into a something of shape was wrought	“The Quaking Bog; A very awful and antique ballad,”
1839	and this mysterious event begins to have a something of reality in its conclusion; Heloise was half ready to recognise her aerial being	Mrs. Kentish	The Gipsy Daughter; Or, The Noble Orphan	2768
1841	a something of a paralytic attack seemed to remind	Mrs Gore	Cecil: Or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb	2747
1841	in the expression of the dark blue eyes, a something of care and anxiety never observed before	Mrs Williams (Catherine)	The Neutral French; Or, The Exiles of Nova Scotia
1842	but Fanny Wilding’s eyes, for black ones, were not disagreeable; there was a something of expression	Theodore Hook	The Man of Sorrow; A Novel
1842	still they show A something of resemblance as when seen For the first moment	James Henry Burke	Days in the East. A Poem
1843	a something of melancholy, which betokened the habitual sadness of his thoughts, but mixed with no shade	Tommaso Grossi	Marco Visconti, translation in The Literary Garland
1843	a something of stiffness and inutility to censure there, and a something of aptness, grace, and convenience to applaud	William Taylor	A Memoir of the Life and Writings of, in The Quarterly Review
1843	for there was a novelish sound in the first name, a something of Miss Owenson or Mrs. Opie	Mrs Gore	The Money-Lender	2747
1844	bearing in his hand a something of very mysterious ugliness of form	Mrs Trollope	“The Butt” in The New Monthly Magazine [and Humorist]	2752
1844	sensations, symptomatic of he did not know what a something of a sort of a preference for himself which was making her very unhappy	Abbott Lee	“How Will It End?,” in The Metropolitan
1845	the face of the earth, hath about it a something of melancholy interest; hence	Thomas Richard Whitney	The Ambuscade : An Historical Poem (notes to Part III)
1845	I calculate there’s a something of a string-halt in the bargain... I need hardly say	Mrs. Houstoun	Texas and the Gulf of Mexico; or, Yachting in the New World	2762
1845	There stood the mansion, with its extent of deepest groves, possessing a something of almost ostentatious grandeur. It was very large, that house, built in a sort of corrupt half-eastern, half-mediaeval style...	Anne Marsh-Caldwell	Aubrey
1846	I traced, or fancied I could trace in its tiny features some vestige of the Brookes countenance — a something of Harriet	Mrs Gore	Men of Capital.	2747
1846	with [a] something of a device upon them; taciturn — a thing not to be wondered at...	Robert Mackenzie Daniel	The Young Baronet
1847	a something of religion born with them	John Calvin (James Anderson, trans.)	Commentary on The Book of Psalms
1847	A something of indifference, more	John T. Watson, M.D	A Dictionary of Poetical Quotations	2771
1847	in her own feelings. There was a something, of solemnity and holiness	Mrs Trollope	Father Eustace : A Tale of the Jesuits
1847	a something of poetry in it when looked at geologically; a vastness of antiquity	Dr. Vaughan on Geology and the Bible, in The Christian Reformer; or, Unitarian Magazine and Review		2777
1847	a something of pain, a thick and swelling sigh, fraught	Charles Whitehead	Smiles and Tears; or, the Romance of Life
1849	catching from its look a something of religion, and sometimes, not An ark of bulrushes fetched from among the flags of the Nile	William Mountford	Euthanasy : Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life
1849	a something of incongruity	Mrs. Trollope	The Lottery of Marriage
1849	a something of every known science... an orrery, an electrifying machine, a turning lathe, a theater (in the wash-house), a chemical apparatus, and, what he called a select library	William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero
1849	It seemed to unfold to me a something of the purpose and aim of life, of which I had been till then ignorant.	Miss Lamont (Martha Macdonald)	The Fortunes of Woman : Memoirs	2762
1850	a something of reverence	Mrs. Trollope	Petticoat Government
1850	as a something of very secondary moment; and grievous it is, at all times, to see	Rev. Thomas Dykes	his Memoir, review of in The Church of England Quarterly Review	2752
1850	a // something of what has been, or they must be // sort of necessity, scattered like those of the Sybil. // noodles and nobodies	OCR cross-column misread	The Southern Literary Messenger	2788
1851	a something of love mingling with both	Anne Marsh-Caldwell	Ravenscliffe.
1851	as though a something of the past seemed fully to engage your mind	J. St. Clement	“My Walk to ‘The Office’”, Eliza Cook’s Journal	2838
1851	with a something of tender retrospection in his tone	Mrs. Hubback (Catherine Anne)	The wife’s sister ; or, The Forbidden Marriage
1851	yet there was a something of taste and elegance in her attire, rude as it was in quality, that pleased the eye of one who had acquired a knowledge of what constitutes beauty in other times and circumstances	G. P. R. James	The Gipsy
1852	a something of solemnity from the long, long past	William Mountford	Thorpe : A Quiet English Town, and Human Life Therein
1852	even when seemingly most arid, a something of refreshing moisture	Acheta Domestica	Episodes of Insect Life	2777
1852	a something of the feeling which leads	Miss Crumpe	Death-Flag: or, The Irish Buccaneers
1853	winning us by their smiles from giving permanent and soul-engrossing attention to the commonalities, although necessities, of commercial speculation, to feel a something of their influence	James Henry Powell	The Poetry of Feeling and the Poetry of Diction, A Lecture...
1854	a something of regret in her voice, as if another thought was in her mind	Emily Ponsonby	Edward Willoughby : A Tale
1854	his thoughts, however, were far, far away... there were moments of late, when a something of doubt would arise	Mary Alicia Taylor	Clouds and Sunshine; or, Truth and Error
1854	the vessel, a something of one mast. my something of a sick body.	Lorrin Andrews	Grammar of the Hawaiian Language	2771
1856	of a rough manufacture; a something of blue	extract from Border Lands of Spain and France. With an account of a visit to the Republic of Andorre, in The Dublin University Magazine		2760
1857	a something of light growing darker peculiar	“Editor’s Easy Talk,” followed by verse (“The Twilight Hour.” By Sans Souci) in Graham’s American Monthly Magazine		2742
1857	Ewigkeit; a something of which there will be no end	A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and English Language. Cheaper Edition.
1857	But my mother looked sad and weary... There was a something of distance in the air of abstraction which pervaded her.	Andrew Jackson Davis	The Magic Staff : An Autobiography of	2742
1858	There was always a something of mystery about I shall certainly fall to picking something to pieces, or cutting up something which I ought not.	Mrs. Hubback	The Stage and the Company	2771
1858	broken sentences; a something of romance, of energy, of eccentricity; She was more like a man in many ways than a woman	Mrs. J. H. Riddell (Charlotte)	The Rich Husband; A Novel of Real Life
1860	a something of that resolution and firmness	Mrs. Smythies (Harriet)	Hope Evermore; or, Something to Do
1860	there was something in the expression, a something of; and so depraved !	Emerson Bennett	The Traitor; or, The Fate of Ambition
1860	and found a (something) of water, and threw it, and it became a loch of fresh water	J. F. Campbell	The Battle of the Birds, in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected	2733
1861	Absent she pictured him as lonely, poor, sorrowful. Present his firm countenance, a something of authority in his look and manner... this evening displeased her	Henrietta Camilla Jenkin	“Who Breaks — Pays”
1861	a something of the greatest consequence to communicate of consequence then, that triangular piece of paper many times	James Malcolm Rymer	Edith the Captive; o, The Robbers of Epping Forest.
1862	a something of life and spirit. I cannot follow you here.	“Volunteers against Patriotism,” in The Free Press (London; "Journal of the Foreign Affairs Committees")
1862	a something of less perfection might have increased	Philip Cresswell	A Loss Gained.
1862	something of a gnome	William Cox Bennett	“Our Fairies,” in his Poems
1863	a something of distance and division between them that she could by no means pass, what remained but to sit down quietly with this tangled skein of her own spinning	unknown	“Meave, Schoolmistress,” in Harper’s Weekly	2742
1864	a something of the subject gleamed across me, and a study of the situation	Henry Phillips	Musical and Personal Recollections During Half a Century
1865	a something of rapture in that earlier dream a something that had betrayed a tremor in her thoughts a something of romance during those days	Anthony Trollope	Can You Forgive Her? (three passages)
1865	as a something of the past, and as quite behind	“All Agog” by G. G., on music program at meeting of the Architectural Association, in The Building News and Engineering Journal
1865	midway on clumsy pillars, assumes a something of lightness and spring, very refreshing	William Gifford Palgrave	Narrative of a Year’s Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)	2760
1866	there was not only a cordial frankness about it, but a something of sympathy, conveyed with marvellous tact	James Payn	Mirk Abbey
1867	a something of doubtful futurity	Anthony Trollope	Nina Balatka : The Story of a Maiden of Prague
1867	a something of unexpressed and inexpressible relief	Anthony Trollope	“Is She Mad?” in The Claverings
1867	a something of Alice Craven in every feature; a something of the Moggie left in her still; a something of the same	several instances, in omnibus volume (mis catalogued) containing one work by Elizabeth Eiloart, and three by Anne Marsh-Caldwell, including The Heiress of Haughton, or, The Mother’s Secret (1855)
1867	a something of sternness too about her manner, which, though difficult to define in words, was felt	Mrs. C. J. Newby	Forty Years Ago. a Novel.
1867	There was a something of Emma about the young fellow, that lost nothing	Frederick Walpole	May and September. A Novel.
1868	an antecedent something, and a something of some special nature, to be There is, then, a primitive element of mind, as well as a primitive element of matter.	Rev. F. Nowill-Webster	Inaugural Essay on Instinct
1868	a something of distance in the relations; that the silence, the fits of absence, and the almost brusqueries	Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte)	Sink Or Swim? : A Novel	2760
1868	the shadow of a something of which the reality was never to live, never to be known to them	Rebecca Harding Davis	Dallas Galbraith
1868	a number or a something akin to a number from which	Archibald Sandeman	Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity	2777
1868	a something of hardness — the result (but how was Ruby to guess that?) of the man’s stern endeavour to be calm But there was a middle course (ah!)	Mrs Houstoun	The Two Rubies. A Novel.
1868	It was this shortcoming which gave a something of hardness to her character. that craving of the soul for space and solitude	Henrietta Camilla Jenkin, A Psyche of To-day (Tauchnitz edition, same year, titled Two French Marriages)
1869	has still a something of earth, a something of selfishness, adhering to it, from which we need a constant effort, an unceasing watchfulness, to free ourselves	Correspondence from “R. L. C.” in Charlotte Mary Yonge, ed., The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church
1869	There was, she thought, a something of hauteur; yet it might be no more than what is honoured as “true dignity of mind.”	unknown	Miss Langley’s Will : A Tale
1869	but which attract by a something enigmatical, a something of a disagreement, or of a double character in the expression	Mrs. C. Jenkin	Madame de Beaupré	2777
1869	‘metretik art.’ ‘The greatest happiness of the greatest number’ sounds at first as if it denoted a something of great tangibility	Robert Williams on utilitarianism	Fraser’s Magazine	2788
1870	a something of life. a speck only; this something about	OCR confusion	Scientific American	2738
1870	and if a something of melancholy did tinge his life, it gave a charm to it and to himself, subduing fiercer fervour	John Pomeroy (Anne Denn Pollard)	A Double Secret and Golden Pippin
1870	with one little touch say a something of	Leslie Gore	Annie Jennings : A Novel	2747
1870	a something of hardness and scepticism, or, it may be, of sadness	Herbert Wilson	“The Study of Biography;” an address
1872	a something of wrong	Mrs. Henry B. Paull, “The Fate of Beethoven’s Sonata,” in The Greatest is Charity : A Series of Eight Stories on the Attributes of Charity
1874	a something of sense analogous to the difficulty we find in realizing in winter that it will ever be warm again, and vice versâ	(Monsignor) James Laird Patterson “Exiled Popes,” in The Contemporary Review
1875	and turned with a something of shame from the costly range of stabling	Emma C. C. Steinman	The Old House at Alding. A Novel
1875	a something of indescribable horror all its own. I have stood and gazed	John Duncan Craig	Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland
1875	a something of passionate sentiment and physical exaltation in her general expression; it was different in this case	Emma Robinson, Madeleine Graham (this being “Routledge’s Railway Library” reprint; first published 1864)
1876	But yet, now and then a mere word, or look, would contradict this fair promise, a something of hardness	Elizabeth Wetherell (Susan Bogert Warner)	Queechy
1878	Or was it not rather that a something of which they were both conscious, and that had lain concealed; as an apparently dead dry stick in Eastern lands	Mrs. Day	A Chequered Life	2762
1879	a something of red-tapeism; but all is plain sailing, compared; Poor Cairo had spent a seedy autumn	Richard F(rancis). Burton	The Land of Midian (revisited)
1880	a something of dark lace, the edges whereof fell to her waist — the merest pretence	D(avid). Christie Murray	A Life’s Atonement	2742
1880	or a something of Nothing, as far in a direct line from us here as we can	author unknown Some elementary remarks regarding sensation and perception, and A Physical Hypothesis following thereon, and some remarks on space
1882	with a something of sense in my head, and a pound or two laid by	Mrs. J. H. Riddell (Charlotte)	The Senior Partner : A Novel
1883	and while superstitions are fast becoming a something of the past... But enough of these absurdities; How we raised the wind	“Matrimonial Superstitions” (and title of following piece), in Tit-bits, Geo. Newnes, ed.		2749
1883	not ] a something of shame, while we behold / mere play upon the surface of things	OCR cross-column misconstrual at “On the Study of Words” by Richard Chenevix French, in The World’s Cyclopedia of Science
1883	“a card,” or “a photograph,” or “a something” of Mrs. Hazelton	“Jenifer,” by Annie Thomas (Mrs. Pender-Cudlip), in All the Year Round
1886	a something of more moment than any- traiture of	OCR confusion, at reviews of a volume by John Ruskin, and of Maria W. Jones her A Quaker Love Story and Other Poems, in The University (Chicago)		2777
1887	a something of contempt and blame. Was it but	Mrs. Mary Hulett Young	Forest Leaves and Three; Or, Genevra’s Tower
1887	a something of a change	“Notes from the Park” (by “H”), in Forest and Stream		2771
1888	a something of renewed brightness	Philip Gaskell	A Lion Among the Ladies
1888	a chiffre or symbol; a something of which we have no proof, yet feel must be	L. T. Ives, correspondence on “The Unknowable,” by Paul Carus in The Open Court		2788
1889	If there is in this a something of melancholy, it is the melancholy of dream-land, thin and bloodless. Nature always has her compensations; strength is necessary for suffering; and the poorer the life, the richer its exemptions.       So it was with Errington.	Rev. Albert Eubule Evans	The Outcasts : Being Certain Strange Passages in the Life of a Clergyman
1889	and read the deflection a of the galvanometer... a deflection a, something between	H. N. Chute	Elementary Practical Physics : A Guide for the Physical Laboratory	2771
1889	“What have you done with the paper, you thief? ...the sacristan; he has a something of knowledge, as I know, and you have carried it off to him”	Gogol Sketches from The Dead Souls, in The Lyceum
1890	on literature or something of that kind	Anthony Hope	The Dolly Dialogues	2738
1890	Yet there was sadness, too, a something of shame and of pride	Thomas Heney “Found Dead,” In Middle Harbour and Other Verse, Chiefly Australian
1890	a touch that recalls — and no more — a something of Miss Austen’s manner	review of Louisa M. Gray her Cousin Ned, in The Athenaeum
1891	a something of immutable reserve; a curious diction of the atmosphere	V. Cecil Cotes	Two Girls on a Barge	2760
1892	a something of race, character, training and influences answered to.	Deas Cromarty Mrs. Robert A. Watson	Scottish Ministerial Miniatures
1893	merely to think on the subject sometimes had the effect of bringing a shadow, a something of melancholy, over my mind, the temper which is fatal to investigation, causing “all things to droop and languish.”	W. H. Hudson	Idle Days in Patagonia	2756
1894	in quo etiam erat aliquis quaestus; in which lay a something of gain	Richard Horton Smith	Conditional Sentences in Greek and Latin	2762
1895	a something of moment distressing	—	“Shirt Notes,” The Clothier and Furnisher
1895	a something of the engraved look; a Something of which one rarely tired	Deas Cromarty Mrs. Robert A. Watson	Under God’s Sky : The Story of a Cleft in Marland
1895	A. something of my exer- // bound in fetters, and carried to turned to such things. I told Mrs. A. something of my exercises of mind.	OCR confusions, at letter from Laura Greenland (Colfax, Pa.) in Signs of the Times (“Devoted to the Old School Baptist Cause”)
1897	a something of character; ‘nullius jurare in verba magistri’	Edgar Montagu, “Shrewsbury School in the ’Thirties; A Retrospect by an Old Salopian,” in Shropshire Notes and Queries
1897	In all cases the colour of the walls; and still with a something of mellowness. There is a combination of	Rosamund Marriott Watson	The Art of the House
1897	a something of celestial inspiration	Victor Hugo; I. G. Burnham, trans.	Marion de Lorme (1829)
1898	Next you’ll be making it out as we’re nought but a something of nothing.	W. Edwards Tirebuck	Meg of the Scarlet Foot	2749
1898	but a something of herself had given way and she knew that she would never be quite the same again	Lelia Hardin Bugg	Orchids : A Novel
1899	a something of more solid worth attached to them	R. Gibson (Delaware)	The Cattle Industry of Canada, in The Stockbreeder’s Magazine
1899	as fluidity resides in water; a something of nothing	Vihári-lála Mitra (trans)	The Yoga-vásishtha-mahárámáyana of Válmiki	2738
1901	a something of wrong in it, even the conventional	William H. Hotchkiss	Bankruptcy and Preferences a la Mode, in The Rand McNally Bankers’ Monthly
1901	A something of Germanism clings about the style	—	A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
1902	something (often, alas! no more than a something!) of music	Jenne M(orrow). Long	“Common Sense in Oral Expression,” in The Western Journal of Education	2760
1902	there must be and is a something of distance; here a bookish individual is regarded as a harmless nonentity	“Country Notes” in	Country Life Illustrated
1904	A. something of that sort. A. something of that sort.	testimony by John S. Skinner; Report of Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the immigration of Italian labourers to Montreal &c.		2734
1904	a Something of Some Particular Sort. At any rate	The Mower-Man	The Hayfield Mower and Scythe of Progress	2771
1905	It’s torn / like a Turkoman cap / a something of that sort / Now it’s easy.	glosses to translation, The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan (Sarguz̲asht-i Ḥājjī Bābā-yi Iṣfahānī), translated from English into Persian by Hājī Sheikh Ahmad-i Kirmānī, edited with notes by Major D. C. Phillott		2788
1906	with a something of melancholy in the expression	Mrs. Henry Lyell, ed.	The Life of Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury
1906	About her hair, which was always most carefully dressed, there was a something of disorder	Antonio Fogazzaro	The Patriot (M. Prichard-Agnetti, trans)	2742
1906	a something of the soil, not beholden to atmospheric tinting for its hue	Percival Lowell	Mars and Its Canals
1908	a Something of language study may be begun early. The words that have in older days	W. F. P. Stockley	“English Literature in Secondary Schools”	2742
1908	A something of which the sense can in no way assist the mind to form a conception of.	Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler	The King’s English
1908	a something of hardness that made the experienced cautious, and inspired the innocent with instinctive dread.       Yet a modifying influence began to stir	Henry George, Jr.	The Romance of John Bainbridge (reprint of 1906)
1909	which every cowboy pretends to, and a something of logic	News and Comments	The Classical Review	2749
1912	a something of order grew out of the chaos	Maurice H. Harris	The People of the Book : A Bible History for School and Home
1913	With a something of care, which resembled A cloud on a bright summer-day. And they laughed in despite of their reason	Daniel Bedinger Lucas	The Land where We Were Dreaming; And Other Poems of
1914	or a shock, a something of character, may also be intended	OCR misread of poor scan	The Central Law Journal
1914	she was leaving there a something of herself, a something of unaccomplished effort, of failure that would mingle with the melancholy of the place and hang for ever in the vapours of the cave	George Stevenson (pseudonym of Grace Horsfall)	Jenny Cartwright
1916	something to “blurb” about, but a something of doubtful value as a sound	“Considered Trifles” (editor’s column) in The Editor		2788
1917	a something of himself, the vision of a seer	“Originality Determined by What Is Hackneyed,” in Marguerite Bertsch, her How to Write for Moving Pictures : A Manual of Instruction and Information
1918	a something of chaos and infinity, he felt; a something not of this world. The starkness and loneliness	Gouverneur Morris	“The Wild Goose, A novel in defense of the home from the man’s standpoint” in Hearst’s International	2742
1918	a something of sympathy	Louise Jordan Miln	Mr. Wu	2755
1918	a certain “wandering” look in the eye become selfless, repeating phrases and sentences, not thinking of what we are saying, but of how it is said, how it looks while being said a “something” of as vital value to us, through mirror gazing, as the earnest student of the occult gains through crystal gazing	Mildred Kennedy	“Mirror Gazing” in Volta Review	2788
1918	a something of the soil	review of exhibition of the Taos Society of Artists, at the Carson Pirie Scott Galleries, in The Fine Arts Journal
1919	a something of every known science and a something of his own	instances of “something”	A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
1919	a something of very recent origin; as old as the hills	J. H. Lee	“Old Nails : New Kegs” in Hardware Dealers’ Magazine
1919	I may go in some direction or other, somewhere or other. a something of what was ready in the way	Douglas Craven Phillott	Higher Persian Grammar	2788
1920	rise to a something of godship, the meaner	Louise Jordan Miln	The Purple Mask	2755
1920	seemed to him now a something of emptiness, and a pain	Louise Jordan Miln	The Feast of Lanterns	2755
1920	a something of spiritual charm not to be worded	Louise Jordan Miln	The Invisible Foe	2755
1921	a something of that sort ? I’m tired, Elfie, and blue terribly blue.	Eugene Walter	The Easiest Way; An American play concerning a particular phase of New York life	2734
1921	a sudden rush, a something of sound behind me	Gordon Young	Sourcery and Everhard, in Adventure	2738
1921	To be brief. It is necessary that a — something of very; enough, yet disquieting by reason of his indefiniteness. It was	Gordon MacCreagh	A Good Sword and a Good Horse, in Adventure	2752
1922	swept her slowly with a something of appraisement	Louise Jordan Miln	The Green Goddess	2755
1923	quite unreal and she heard no message she caught something of his mood, too, perhaps, just a something of his spirit. They never before had been so close or so far.	Louise Jordan Miln	Mr. & Mrs. Sen	2777
1923	something outside of all that, a something of significance, of acute interest	Robert Pickett on T. S. Stribling	Fombombo	2762
1923	it lacked something, a something of sensibility, a something of significance. “May I come and see you again?”	Michael Sadleir, Desolate Splendour “...an extraordinary sense of houses...” The Spectator (April 7, 1923)
1924	A something of self that he did not understand or suspect, a part of self that never had asserted itself before, was up in arms.	Louise Jordan Miln	In a Shantung Garden	2755
1927	but a something of unreasoning goodness and understanding which rise above intellectual virtues	Emilie I. Barrington	Pages from the Family, Social and Political Life of My Father James Wilson : Twenty Years of Mid-Victorian Life
1927	beauty with a something of the unearthly in it and requires an answering divinity to capture it. Now go.	E. Barrington (L. Adams Beck)	The Laughing Queen
1927	But again there was a something of hardness so that the music told	review, performance of Brahms (Fourth Symphony?); Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
1927	a something of a mystery. almost; mental processes are difficult to describe; an aphorism for a hole	The Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer
1929	more and more often — as the days slipped away — a something of intimacy	Louise Jordan Miln	By Soochow Waters	2755
1930	“Everyone who lives has that — a something of their own, a wish for self.”	Louise Jordan Miln	Rice : A Novel	2755
1932	a something of a linguist, rather tall, very slim, of unknown age; he lived in an impregnable moral enclosure of his own	Arnold Bennett	Dream of Destiny, an Unfinished Novel : And Venus Rising from the Sea	2760
1936	a something of night fell; that moment was such as none else	Lew Wallace	OCR error involving Ben-Hur : A Tale of the Christ (1880)
1937	a something of night, so may the whole course of your life	Mary Roberta Irwin	Ovid’s Ibis : A Translation & Commentary
1937	res extensa, a something of three (or if you like, of n) dimensions. Is there anything	Spinoza (re)	Mind (somewhere in)	2777
1939	a Something of more opportune character	OCR misread/confusion	at Municipal Journal
1942	A.   Something of very little value; we know which are the good ones and which are the bad	John R. Van Arnam	Keller vs Federal Trade Commission	2752
1953	able to make a “something” of his very own	Emma Hodkinson Cyphers	Flower Arrangement at the Crossroads
1954	bowing down before a—something—of darkness	C(atherine). L(ucille). Moore	Northwest of Earth
1957	a something of the sea	University of London	Accessions List : A Classified Catalogue.	2742
1962	a something-of-the-sea corresponding to the wires of a harp	Winifred Nowottny	The Language Poets Use	2731
1966	a something of trouble and unease in the poet’s mind; black scratches and a fine	—	The Dublin Magazine	2762
1971	a something of which nothing could be either said or known; a something of the form x [ idea ]	Jonathan Bennett	Locke, Berkeley, Hume : Central Themes	2777
1991	a (something) of language — hence	Charles Pyle	“Logic, Markedness, and Language Universals”	2788
1997	a sort of canvas roof or curtain in the air, incessantly blown and flapped by a something of an immaterial unknown and unknowable wind	Boris Pasternak, from chapter on same in Daniel Murphy, Christianity and Modern European Literature
1997	The X is a “Something” of which in general we can know nothing at all.	Martin Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (1991; Richard Taft, trans.)		2788
2004	a something of which it is equally false and equally true a something of which there are modifications in form but in itself stays the same	Douglas L. Berger	The Veil of Maya : Schopenhauer’s System and Early Indian Thought
2012	from points about predication and (conceptual) copulation in propositions directly to a discussion of erotic love... a something of its own (lowercase z), something to which y and x can genuinely be said to relate as parts	Adrian Daub	Uncivil Unions : The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism
2014	In the latter case, a “something of One” is the product rather than the agent of discourse	“Introduction — Traversing the Theological Fantasy,” in Davis et al, Theology after Lacan : The Passion for the Real
2017	to go out and be somebody, to become... “a something of something.”	Craig T. Cocher	Living a Life of Consequence : How Not to Chase a Fake Rabbit	2749
2020	or a something of some kind to help pass the time	Johnny Golding	The Courage to Matter

 

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