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For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas of ours, — Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and
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There was once a simple day when religion set hearts interflowing, but now it can melt them only within the precincts; the fire which is carried from the altar is dead at the church door.
Apologia Diffidentis 1905
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The river is now running -- or, rather, creeping, for it has lost its current -- under densely-wooded hills, and the water is deeply dyed with interflowing tints of green and gold.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Her sweetness, her archness, the opening of her lips, their way of holding closed, and her brightness of wit, her tender eyelashes, her appreciating looks, her sighing, the thousand varying shades of her motions and her features interflowing like a lighted water, swam to him one by one like so many handmaiden messengers distinctly beheld of the radiant indistinct whom he adored with more of spirit in his passion than before this tempest.
The Tragic Comedians — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Her sweetness, her archness, the opening of her lips, their way of holding closed, and her brightness of wit, her tender eyelashes, her appreciating looks, her sighing, the thousand varying shades of her motions and her features interflowing like a lighted water, swam to him one by one like so many handmaiden messengers distinctly beheld of the radiant indistinct whom he adored with more of spirit in his passion than before this tempest.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Her sweetness, her archness, the opening of her lips, their way of holding closed, and her brightness of wit, her tender eyelashes, her appreciating looks, her sighing, the thousand varying shades of her motions and her features interflowing like a lighted water, swam to him one by one like so many handmaiden messengers distinctly beheld of the radiant indistinct whom he adored with more of spirit in his passion than before this tempest.
The Tragic Comedians — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas of ours, -- Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan, -- possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and of climes.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas of ours, -- Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas of ours -- Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan, -- possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and of climes.
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The house is a paradigm of in-your-face Modernism: rectilinear massing, minimal decoration, interflowing spaces, naked yellow cedar and concrete, with a geothermal heating system and green roof for eco-cred.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ADELE WEDER 2010
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