in medias res, a something of
with a something of directness of touch and a knack of plunging at once into medias res ₁ after which it was destroyed. Some of these subsequently received were open, and others not; part of them also had a something of a post-mark on them ₂ a something of time ₃ or at least I think so a something of hesitation, an incertitude as to effects ₄ a touch that had in it what in all her life Pobai had never felt before, a something of hesitation, even of deference ₅ that nets — including trawl nets — have made a something of a mess of ₆
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sources :
1 review of Florence Warden, her Pretty Miss Smith (London, 1891), in The Athenaeum No. 3315 (May 9, 1891) : 602 / more 2 “History of the Life, Atrocious Impositions, Trial and Execution of Mary Bateman, the reputed witch of Leeds, Yorkshire.” in Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum Vol. 4 (of six). (London, 1820 edition) : 260-301 (281) / more 3 Willem A. Nyland in discussion of G.I. Gurdjieff’s philosophy, Seattle, Washington (28 December 1967) / more 4 Kate Terry Gielgud, on a performance of Richard III at the Lyceum Theatre, 19 December 1896, in A Victorian Playgoer, edited by Muriel St Claire Byrne (London, 1980) : 47-48 / more 5 Daybreak in Korea : A Tale of Transformation in the Far East by Annie L. A. Baird, Missionary of the American Presbyterian Board (New York, 1909) : 84 / more 6 something in Ocean Challenge 8 (2004) : 7 / more
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