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• The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
• She wiped something with a cloth, wiped at the wall shelf, and put the something on it, clinking glass.
• Moreover, in all of our experience with these sense impressions, we never lose sight of the fact that they are but incidental facts of our mental existence, and that there is a Something Within which is really the Subject of these sense reports—a Something to which these reports are presented, and which receives them.
• What was the something the pilot saw, the something worth killing for?
• From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[...]  But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
• “Oh how we somethinged on the hmmm hmm we were wed. Dear, was I ever on the stage?”
• She hovers over the something somethinging and awkwardly lowers her bulk.
• He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.
• And then she put the coffin right out on her front porch. Jim told everyone he'd built it kind of roomy since Bobby Lee was on the stout side, but that it better get used quick because sycamore tends to warp something terrible.
• Seeing him here, though, I all of a sudden feel more like I been gone from home three years, instead of three weeks, and I miss my people something fierce.
• You can't thrash when you have rheumatic fever – though you want to something awful, Mrs. White says.
• I must have forgotten to pack something, but I can't think what.
• The baby looks something like his father.
• She's really something. I can't believe she would do such a mean thing.
• He's really something! I've never heard such a great voice.
• She has a certain something.
• Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
• That child is something of a genius.
• The performance was something of a disappointment.
• Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
• I have a feeling something good is going to happen today.
• I have something for you in my bag.