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merely a way of speaking, a jest, a form of raillery

a gathering of mandarins summoned hastily to discuss somebody's fine dream in a conference

led him around the bright and elegant loggia which encircled the courtyard

A flock of doves which had been flying around the belfry alighted in the street before the house.

two other men in dark coats with silver buttons carried a bier, on which, beneath a great flower-patterned fringe silk cloth, a man was apparently dying