a something of, approximately
my mother looked sad and weary...
There was a something of distance in the air of abstraction which pervaded her. ₁
a something of dark lace, the edges whereof fell ₂
a something of melancholy foreboding
her beautiful but hectic bloom ₃
a something of blue ₄ in her own
feelings. There was a something, of ₅
a something of light growing darker peculiar ₆
a something of distance and division between them that she could by no means pass,
what remained but to sit down quietly with this tangled skein of her own spinning ₇
about her hair, which was always most carefully dressed, there was a something of disorder ₈
a something of chaos and infinity, he felt; a something not of this world.
The starkness and loneliness ₉
a something of the sea ₁₀
sources (their respective details at the more’s)
- The Magic Staff : An Autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis (New York, 1857)
more - [D. Christie Murray], “A Life’s Atonement,” Chapter III. — “History,” in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art (January 18, 1880)
more - [anon.], “The Sisters. — A Sketch.” La Belle Assemblée : Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine (June 1826)
more - The Dublin University Magazine (November 1856), being an extract from
Border Lands of Spain and France. With an account of a visit to the Republic of Andorre (London, 1856)
more - Father Eustace : A Tale of the Jesuits, by Mrs. Trollope. (London, 1847)
more - from section “Editor’s Easy Talk,” followed by verse (“The Twilight Hour.” By Sans Souci) in Graham’s American Monthly Magazine (Philadelphia, June 1857)
more - “Meave, Schoolmistress,” in Harper’s Weekly (November 28, 1863)
more - Antonio Fogazzaro, The Patriot (Piccolo Mondo Antico, translated from the Italian by M. Prichard-Agnetti); (1906)
more - first installment of Gouverneur Morris, “The Wild Goose, A novel in defense of the home from the man’s standpoint,” in Hearst’s International (September 1918)
more - Accessions List : A Classified Catalogue. University of London. Library (1957)
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