The pages of her favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.

dog-ear: (verb) fold down the corner of (a page of a book or magazine), typically to mark a place.

My well-founded fear was that my little daughter would be afraid of going to the kindergarten as she is too shy.

There is a Hungarian celebrity called Balázs who has an ebullient sense of showmanship.

She became sad and her eyes were beginning to glisten. 

Nowadays the weather is so capricious that we cannot really predict what it will be like in advance. 

The performer in the circus was wearing a fancy leotard that attracted the audience's attention.

I felt completely wretched after a long day of working in the fields. 

The lofty mountains shadowed the green-grassed valley. 

After having mad a mistake, I was so repentant, I just kept apologising.

Keep your hair on, there's nothing to worry.

They gleaned themselves about the possible dire consequences.

It was a sign of his outbreak of jealousy.

The cutest creatures in the zoo were the meerkats.

The research underlines the importance of national trade arguments.

solid evidence

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