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a something of the “waves’ intenser day”
 

A. Something of the same kind,
only without the soup.   ₁
 
“a something of Milly.”
The terms were strong.   ₂
 
and old Q. There
is a something of dryness in,   ₃
 
a something of moment distressing   ₄
a peculiar turn with us, a something of show and decadence,   ₅
 
a something of “change,” a transmutation in
the “waves’ intenser day.”   ₆
 
A something of volatile salt lent flavour to [his] unmethodical litter   ₇
and indeed failure is something of a misnomer.   ₈
 
E’en the gout has learnt a something
Of both strategy and tactics.   ₉
 

sources

  1. from statement of Daniel O’Connell, re his passage to New York on board the Helvetia, in
    Report of the Select Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Washington, D. C., 1891) : 197 / more
  2. Walter Lecky, Mr. Billy Buttons : A Novel. Second Edition. (Benziger Brothers, 1896) : 107 / more
  3. “Street Ghosts,” being a review of G. S. Street, his The Ghosts of Piccadilly, in The Academy (October 26, 1907) : 48-59 (59) / more
  4. “Shirt Notes,” The Clothier and Furnisher (October 1895) : 87 / more
  5. John La Farge, “An Artist’s Letter from Japan,” in The Century Magazine (June 1890) : 195-203 (195) / more
  6. C. J. Cornish, “Diving Birds at the Zoo,” in his Wild Animals in Captivity, Or, Orpheus at the Zoo, and Other Papers (New York, 1894) : 77-85 (80) / more
  7. Walter Sichel, Types and Characters : A Kaleidoscope (1925) : 45 / more
  8. something in David J. Shaw, ed., Many Into One : Problems and Opportunities in Creating Shared Catalogues of Older Books (Papers Presented on 11 November 2005 at the CERL Seminar Hosted by the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome); (London, 2006) : 42 / more
  9. The Trumpeter : A Romance of the Rhine by Joseph Victor von Scheffel, translated from the two hundredth German edition by Jessie Beck and Louise Lorimer (Edinburgh and London, 1893) : 48 / more
     

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