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Her trepidations were mingled with emotions not unakin to sublimity; but the consciousness of danger speedily prevailed, and she hastened to acquit herself of her engagement.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

"I can but trust," said the Marquis, politely, "that your course of life has qualified you for a superior flight, since Achon's departing, I apprehend, is not unakin to a descent."

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

It consumed perhaps a half-hour; and when we two at last relinquished Mrs. Rabbet to her husband's charge, it was with a feeling not altogether unakin to relief.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

To separate the Church from the State does not mean, as many think, to separate soul from body; it means to separate two quite opposed spirits unakin and hostile to each other, like Cross and Capitol.

The Agony of the Church (1917) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918

And such is the unreasonable disposition of mankind that the attainment of my most ardent desires aroused a feeling not altogether unakin to irritation.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

Our old yeomanry farmers -- returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour's harvest-home, eased their bubbling breasts with a ready roar not unakin to it.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

Our old yeomanry farmers -- returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour's harvest-home, eased their bubbling breasts with a ready roar not unakin to it.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Our old yeomanry farmers -- returning to their beds over ferny commons under bright moonlight from a neighbour's harvest-home, eased their bubbling breasts with a ready roar not unakin to it.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Allsopp is decidedly an old Saxon name, however unakin to the practice of old Saxon squires the selling of ale may be, was drinkable, for it was fresh, and the day, as I have said before, exceedingly hot; so I took frequent draughts out of the shining metal tankard in which it was brought, deliberating both whilst drinking, and in the intervals of drinking, on what I had next best do.

The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842

It's a great big patch of scrubland not unakin to the African veldt and not somewhere you'd want to travel offroad or on foot.

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