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  • He observes that: happiness and sadness are moments that pass like a shadow,

    Su Dongpo 2007

  • Fire outlining his tall body and casting his face in shadow,

    Firestorm Johansen, Iris 2004

  • After 20 months of bedridden solitude & bodily misery she all of a sudden ceases to be a pallid, shrunken shadow,

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • 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,

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • And out of the lifting heartbeat, out of the drum and shadow,

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • And out of the lifting heartbeat, out of the drum and shadow,

    The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

  • Then my fancies come forth, spirit-children of shadow,

    Lays from the West M. A. Nicholl

  • They heard the swift dip of an oar, and a boat they beheld like a shadow,

    Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance

  • Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow,

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

  • And I saw through the old maid, as through a shadow,

    Precipitations Evelyn Scott

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