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Absolutely vulgarized by too perpetual a parroting Absorbed in a stream of thoughts and reminiscences Absorbed in the scent and murmur of the night Accidents which perpetually deflect our vagrant attention Across the gulf of years Administering a little deft though veiled castigation Affected an ironic incredulity Affecting a tone of gayety After a first moment of reluctance After an eternity of resolutions, doubts, and indecisions Aghast at his own helplessness Agitated and enthralled by day-dreams Agitated with violent and contending emotions Alien paths and irrelevant junketings All embrowned and mossed with age All her gift of serene immobility brought into play All hope of discreet reticence was ripped to shreds All the lesser lights paled into insignificance All the magic of youth and joy of life was there All the place is peopled with sweet airs All the sky was mother-of-pearl and tender All the unknown of the night and of the universe was pressing upon him All the world was flooded with a soft golden light All was a vague jumble of chaotic impressions All was incomprehensible All was instinctive and spontaneous Aloof from the motley throng Ambition shivered into fragments Amid distress and humiliation Amid the direful calamities of the time An acute note of distress in her voice An agreeably grave vacuity An air half quizzical and half deferential An air of affected civility An air of being meticulously explicit An air of inimitable, scrutinizing, superb impertinence An air of stern, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all An air of uncanny familiarity An air which was distinctly critical An almost pathetic appearance of ephemeral fragility [ephemeral = markedly short-lived] An almost riotous prodigality of energy An answering glow of gratitude An antagonist worth her steel An artful stroke of policy An assumption of hostile intent An assurance of good-nature that forestalled hostility An atmosphere of extraordinary languor [languor = dreamy, lazy mood ] An atmosphere thick with flattery and toadyism An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence An audacious challenge of ridicule An avidity that bespoke at once the restlessness, [avidity = eagerness] and the genius of her mind An awe crept over me An eager and thirsty ear An easy prey to the powers of folly An effusive air of welcome An equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism An erect, martial, majestic, and imposing personage An eternity of silence oppressed him An expression of mildly humorous surprise An expression of rare and inexplicable personal energy An exquisite perception of things beautiful and rare An iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart An ignoring eye An impenetrable screen of foliage An impersonal and slightly ironic interest An impervious beckoning motion An inarticulate echo of his longing An increased gentleness of aspect An incursion of the loud, the vulgar and meretricious [meretricious = plausible but false] An inexplicable and uselessly cruel caprice of fate An inexpressible fervor of serenity An ingratiating, awkward and, wistful grace An inspired ray was in his eyes An instant she stared unbelievingly An intense and insatiable hunger for light and truth An intense travail of mind An obscure thrill of alarm An odd little air of penitent self-depreciation An open wit and recklessness of bearing An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor An optimistic after-dinner mood An overburdening sense of the inexpressible An uncomfortable premonition of fear An unfailing sweetness and unerring perception An unpleasant and heavy sensation sat at his heart An unredeemed dreariness of thought An unsuspected moral obtuseness An utter depression of soul And day peers forth with her blank eyes And what is all this pother about? [pother = commotion; disturbance] Animated by noble pride Anticipation painted the world in rose Appalled in speechless disgust Appealing to the urgent temper of youth Apprehensive solicitude about the future Ardent words of admiration Armed all over with subtle antagonisms Artless and unquestioning devotion As if smitten by a sudden spasm As the long train sweeps away into the golden distance August and imperial names in the kingdom of thought Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence <h4 id="id07981" style="margin-top: 2em">B</h4> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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