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I capitulated by inadvertence I cut my reflections adrift I felt a qualm of apprehension I suffered agonies of shyness I took the good day from the hands of God as a perfect gift I was in a somber mood I was overshadowed by a deep boding I was piqued [piqued = resentment; indignation] I yielded to the ingratiating mood of the day Ill-bred insolence was his only weapon Ill-dissimulated fits of ambition Imbued with a vernal freshness [vernal = resembling spring; fresh] Immense and careless prodigality Immense objects which dwarf us Immersed in secret schemes Immured in a trivial round of duty [immured = confine within] Impassioned and earnest language Impatient and authoritative tones Impervious to the lessons of experience Implying an immense melancholy Imprisoned within an enchanted circle In a deprecating tone of apology In a flash of revelation In a gale of teasing merriment In a misery of annoyance and mortification In a musing ecstasy of contemplation In a sky stained with purple, the moon slowly rose In a spirit of indulgent irony In a strain of exaggerated gallantry In a tone of after-dinner perfunctoriness [perfunctoriness = with little interest] In a tone of musing surprise In a tumult of self-approval and towering exultation In a vague and fragmentary way In a wise, superior, slightly scornful manner In accents of menace and wrath In its whole unwieldy compass In moments of swift and momentous decision In quest of something to amuse In requital for various acts of rudeness In the air was the tang of spring In the dusky path of a dream In the face of smarting disillusions In the flush and heyday of youth and gaiety and loveliness In the heyday of friendship In the mild and mellow maturity of age In the perpetual presence of everlasting verities In this breathless chase of pleasure In this chastened mood I left him Incapable of initiative or boldness Inconceivable perversion of reasoning Indolently handsome eyes Indulge in pleasing discursiveness Ineffable sensation of irritability Infantile insensibility to the solemnity of his bereavement Infantine simplicity and lavish waste Innumerable starlings clove the air [clove = split] Insensible to its subtle influence Inspired by the immortal flame of youth Intangible and indescribable essence Intense love of excitement and adventure Intimations of unpenetrated mysteries Into her eyes had come a hostile challenge Into the purple sea the orange hues of heaven sunk silently Into the very vestibule of death Involuntarily she sighed Involuntary awkwardness and reserve Involved in a labyrinth of perplexities It came to him with a stab of enlightenment It elicited a remarkably clear and coherent statement It is a flight beyond the reach of human magnanimity It is a thing infinitely subtle It is not every wind that can blow you from your anchorage It lends no dazzling tints to fancy It moved me to a strange exhilaration It parted to a liquid horizon and showed the gray rim of the sea It proved a bitter disillusion It seemed intolerably tragic It seemed to exhale a silent and calm authority It was a breathless night of suspense It was a desolating vision It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind It was a night of stupefying surprises It was all infinitely soft and refreshing to the eye It was an evening of great silences and spaces, wholly tranquil It was sheer, exuberant, instinctive, unreasoning, careless joy It was the ecstasy and festival of summer It was torture of the most exquisite kind <h4 id="id08413" style="margin-top: 2em">J</h4> Jealousies and animosities which pricked their sluggish blood to tingling Joy rioted in his large dark eyes Judging without waiting to ponder over bulky tomes <h4 id="id08417" style="margin-top: 2em">K</h4> Kind of unscrupulous contempt for gravity Kiss-provoking lips <h4 id="id08420" style="margin-top: 2em">L</h4> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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