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He is cool amid confusion.

The curtain fell amid the wild applause of the audience.

Napoleon rode into Paris in triumph amid crowds of cheering spectators.

My dad lost his hearing after working amid the noise on the ships all his life.

The painter is famous for his stark landscapes where nothing seems to grow amid the rocks and sand.

She was standing amid the ruins of the castle.

They are amid the city noises.

Attempts at peace talks are continuing amid fears that the situation will deteriorate into a full-scale war.

The Armed Forces have been put on full alert amid rumors of a planned terrorist attack on the White House.

Confusion reigns over the country's capital today amid reports that the President has been assassinated.

With sagacity to conceive and fortitude to perfect his designs, [12]he laid his plans and struggled against many disappointments, amid the ridicule and predictions of failure freely bestowed by his neighbors,-often against serious pecuniary embarrassments; and at last was crowned by a wonderful degree of success.

Various other instances could be cited, if necessary, going to show that a beneficent Creator has implanted in many animals, to a certain extent, a power of accommodation to the circumstances and conditions amid which they are reared.

Each generation in its turn becomes more completely and fully adapted to the circumstances amid which they are reared, and if bred indiscriminately with any thing and every thing else, we by and by have the common mixed cattle of New England, miscalled natives; or if kept more distinct, we have something approaching the Devon, the Ayrshire, or the Jersey breeds.

Cagliostro entered Strassburg in state, amid an admiring crowd, who regarded him as more than human.

At the commencement of the proceedings Sir Frederick Abel took the chair, but this was only pro forma, and in order that he might, after a few complimentary sentences, resign it to the president-elect, Professor Huggins, the eminent astronomer, who at once, amid applause, assumed the presidency and proceeded to deliver the opening address.

After a walk through the woods and lanes of late summer and autumn, one's clothes reveal scores of tramps that have stolen a ride in the hope of being picked off and dropped amid better conditions in which to rear a family.

Then, floating about in a birch canoe among the lily-pads, while one envies the very moose and deer that may feed on fare so dainty and spend their lives amid scenes of such exquisite beauty, one lets thought also float as idly as the little clouds high overhead.

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