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  • In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

    John Brown: What's Important, What's Happening, and What's Public Diplomacy 2010

  • In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

    John Brown: What's important, what's happening, and what's public diplomacy 2010

  • In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time

    Archive 2007-02-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time

    A Visit from Uncle Walt Bruce Schauble 2007

  • When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools

    Archive 2006-11-01 ambermoggie 2006

  • When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools

    Lost road through the woods,oak ash and thorn ambermoggie 2006

  • The excitement of the quick ride through the night-air, the smallness of the party, the importance of the undertaking, the probable danger, and the uncertainty, had all seemed to him delightful; and the idea of rescuing a beautiful girl from the flames was more delightful than all; but the coarseness and cruelty of his General had destroyed the romance, and dissipated the illusion.

    La Vend�e 2004

  • “Would you favour me,” he asked, “by watching over her this one evening, and observing that she does nothing imprudent — does not, for instance, run out into the night-air immediately after dancing?”

    Villette 2003

  • We found the night-air keen; or at least I did: he did not seem to feel it; but it was very still, and the star-sown sky spread cloudless.

    Villette 2003

  • I took a revel of the scene; I drank the elastic night-air — the swell of sound, the dubious light, now flashing, now fading.

    Villette 2003

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