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  • I was howling too and like yawing about and I banged my gulliver smack on the hall-wall, my glazzies being tight shut and the juice astream from them, very agonizing.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • His right hand hung torn, astream with blood, but the knife gleamed in his left.

    The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

  • I ran with the pennons of morning astream over me.

    Perpetual Light : a memorial William Rose Ben��t 1918

  • I cannot conceive aught that could give a traveller juster cause to halt in sign of reverence; no altar crowned with flowers, no grotto shadowed with foliage, [35] no oak bedecked with horns, no beech garlanded with the skins of beasts, no mound whose engirdling hedge proclaims its sanctity, no tree-trunk hewn into the semblance of a god, no turf still wet with libations, no stone astream with precious unguents.

    The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

  • There, just as he cleared the door, as if it were saluting him, and determined to give him a trial of its force, a blast leaped upon him, like an embodiment out of the cloud in full possession of both world and sky, and started his gown astream, and twisting his hair and beard into lashes whipped his eyes and ears with them, and howled, and snatched his breath nearly out of his mouth.

    The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866

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