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freshly reare As if late

LII 460 Then freshly up arose the doughtie knight, All healed of his hurts and woundes wide, And did himselfe to battell ready dight; Whose early foe awaiting him beside To have devourd, so soone as day he spyde, 465 When now he saw himselfe so freshly reare, As if late fight had nought him damnifyde, He woxe dismayd, and gan his fate to feare; Nathlesse with wonted rage he him advaunced neare.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

feels restless and is led

A hungry animal feels restless, and is led by instinctive impulses to perform the movements which give it nourishment; but the act of seeking food is not sufficient evidence from which to conclude that the animal has the thought of food in its "mind.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

from robbery and in like

But it is expressly stated that, when a novice after passing through the probationary stages was admitted to the full privileges of the order, the oath of admission bound him ‘to conceal nothing from the members of the sect, and to report nothing concerning them to others, even though threatened with death; not to communicate any of their doctrines to anyone otherwise than as he himself had received them; but to abstain from robbery, and in like manner to guard carefully the books 90 of their sect, and the names of the angels [256] .’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Frau Rupius as if lost

"Well, there is probably no reason for that either," said Frau Rupius, as if lost in thought, stroking Bertha's hand, which lay upon the table.
— from Bertha Garlan by Arthur Schnitzler

flowing river as it lapped

The only noise that came to his ears was the soft murmur of the flowing river as it lapped the stones of the shore.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Yukon: The Lost Mine of Rainbow Bend by Harry Gordon

fire ran along it like

“The dry fir-needles must have caught, and gone on smouldering till they reached a branch which touched the ground, and then the fire ran along it like a flash.”
— from To The West by George Manville Fenn

Friends radiant and inseparable Light

You only In love, in faith unbroken dwell, Friends, radiant and inseparable!" "Light-hearted and glad they seemed to me
— from Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger

for rapture and in little

And drank and ate with him, and showed her teeth, While laughing, shaking curls, and flinging back Her head for rapture, and in little crows.
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters

feminine rhyme as in ll

1–4, 9, 10, or a feminine rhyme, as in ll. 7 and 8.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

four right angles its longer

This (species) rectangle is a (genus) parallelogram with (differentia) four right angles its longer sides being (accident) ten inches . (2)
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

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