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Examples
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He observes that: happiness and sadness are moments that pass like a shadow,
Su Dongpo 2007
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Fire outlining his tall body and casting his face in shadow,
Firestorm Johansen, Iris 2004
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After 20 months of bedridden solitude & bodily misery she all of a sudden ceases to be a pallid, shrunken shadow,
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I took a different view: I thought that human lots were more equal than she imagined; that to some happiness and sorrow came in strong patches of light and shadow,
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And out of the lifting heartbeat, out of the drum and shadow,
The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996
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And out of the lifting heartbeat, out of the drum and shadow,
The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996
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Then my fancies come forth, spirit-children of shadow,
Lays from the West M. A. Nicholl
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They heard the swift dip of an oar, and a boat they beheld like a shadow,
Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance
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Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow,
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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And I saw through the old maid, as through a shadow,
Precipitations Evelyn Scott
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