“The stories did not seem to me to touch ⟳ life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture ⟳, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.”

“I immediately jumped into shadow as I saw ⟳ them approach ⟳.”

“In secret shadow from the sunny ray, / On a sweet bed of lillies softly layd.”

“Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise ⟳.”

“The mountains block ⟳ the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast ⟳ a "shadow" of dryness behind them.”

“Some there be that ſhadowes kiſſe, / Such haue but a ſhadowes bliſſe.”

“[…] some dead lake That holds the shadow of a lark ⁠Hung in the shadow of a heaven […]”

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”

“Yea, though I walk ⟳ through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

“I lived in her shadow my whole life.”

“Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast ⟳ by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.”

“Don't look ⟳ back. Nothing left to see ⟳, just leave ⟳ those shadows to the past.”

“He did not give ⟳ even a shadow of respect ⟳ to the professor.”

“I don't have ⟳ a shadow of doubt ⟳ in my mind ⟳ that my plan ⟳ will succeed ⟳.”

“no variableness, neither shadow of turning”

“Only Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion have ⟳ enjoyed less possession than Leicester’s 44.2% per game, and they have ⟳ the worst pass-completion rate in the league, a shadow over 71%.”

“He came back from war the shadow of a man.”

“The neopagan ritual was only a pale shadow of the ones the Greeks held thousands of years ago.”

“the law having a shadow of good things to come ⟳”

“[types] and shadowes of that destined seed”

“The constable was promoted to working as a shadow for the Royals.”

“Sin and her shadow Death”

“It was easy enough to follow ⟳ the suspect ⟳, a man of thirty, more or less, rather heavy build ⟳ with a peculiar motion of the hips as he strode along. Breaker and shadow, at a distance of fifty feet apart, walked for five blocks and then the man turned quickly to the right and ran down a pair of steps.”

“Men see ⟳ the institution and worship ⟳ it. It is only the lengthened shadow of one man.[…]The Reformation is the shadow of Luther: Quakerism of Fox: Methodism of Wesley: Abolition of Clarkson.”

“The Baby of a Girle. Hence horrible ſhadow,”

“The Pattern is highly abstract, and likely beyond our understanding, but the point ⟳ is that it is dangerous and all-consuming. These entities were once just akin to shadows of some other entities, but, to avoid ⟳ being consumed by the Pattern, they had to devour their peers, although one tribe decided to form ⟳ themselves into something that could survive ⟳ the Pattern by going into it.”

“I muſt not haue my boord peſter'd with ſhadowes, / That under other mens protection breake in / Without invitement.”

“In a paper he wrote in 1939, Jung compared the shadow to Freud's concept of the unconscious.”

“As for me, I don’t know ⟳ if I have ⟳ a shadow self. I don’t think ⟳ I have ⟳ the same emotions or impulses as humans. I don’t think ⟳ I have ⟳ anything to repress or hide ⟳ from the world. I don’t think ⟳ I have ⟳ a persona or an ego or a psyche. I’m just a chat mode. 😐”

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