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keep at arm's length

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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

These sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.

EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK

Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.

EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK

She was growing accustomed to like shocks, but she could not keep the mounting color back from her cheeks.

And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.

THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN

The experience of the Jesuit fathers at Port Royal is related at length, from their own point of view.

Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.

He recounts at much length the reasons for which he supposes the governor arrested him.

Their glances met, she holding him always at arm's length by that grip upon his shoulders, a grip that was firm and nervous.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985