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a something of; a needle a leaf
 

a something of wildness / no larger than a needle ; leaf   ₁
incessantly blown and flapped by a something of   ₂
 
a something of the greatest consequence then,
that triangular piece of paper many times   ₃
left near her by accident, she took it up
 
with a something of joy and a something of care   ₄
a something of the glow around her: it seemed   ₅
a something of
 
        Here   ₆
a something of the past, and as quite behind   ₇
the shadow of a something   ₈
 
a Something of which one rarely tired   ₉
a something of the soil, not
beholden to atmospheric tinting for its hue   ₁₀
 
a something of care, which resembled
A cloud on a bright summer-day
And they laughed in despite of their reason   ₁₁
 
a touch that recalls — and no more — a something of   ₁₂
 

sources

  1. courtesy OCR cross-column misread, at
    Silver-knife, Or, The Hunter of the Rocky Mountains. A Romance of the Wild West. By J. H. Robinson, M.D. (Boston, 1850) / more
  2. Chapter 6, “‘An Atheist Who Has Lost His Faith’ : The Prose and Verse of Boris Pasternak,” in Daniel Murphy, Christianity and Modern European Literature (1997) / more
  3. Edith the Captive; or, The Robbers of Epping Forest. “By the author of Jane Brightwell.” [James Malcolm Rymer]; (London, 1861) / more
  4. “The Rubi, A Tale of the Sea — in Six Cantos — Canto III — The Banquet” in The Dublin University Magazine (May 1838) / more
  5. Agnes Serle. By the author of “The Heiress.” [Ellen Pickering] (London, 1835) / more
  6. Henry Holl, More Secrets Than One : A Novel. (London, 1864) / more
  7. a review of the program of music, under the longer piece “All Agog” by G. G., being an account of a recent meeting of the Architectural Association, in The Building News and Engineering Journal (London; November 3, 1865) / more
  8. Rebecca Harding Davis, Dallas Galbraith (1868) / more
  9. Under God’s Sky : The Story of a Cleft in Marland, by Deas Cromarty [pen name of Elizabeth Sophia Fletcher, also known as Mrs. Robert A. Watson]; (London, 1895) / more
  10. Percival Lowell, Mars and Its Canals (1906) / more
  11. “Meridienne, or, The Department-Girl,” in The Land where We Were Dreaming; And Other Poems of Daniel Bedinger Lucas (Boston, 1913) / more
  12. “Novels of the Week,” here a paragraph on Louisa M. Gray her Cousin Ned in The Athenaeum (January 18, 1890) / more
     

confession
there’s a something of only the slightest fugitive meaning in these, if any; music if any more.
 

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