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I'm sitting here dreaming that I am free, and am soaring away up among the clouds.

From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Howard, Velma Swanston

Unfortunately I must here retract my favourite axiom, that goodwill can effect all things, ability must accompany it; but I am soaring too high, and my father will lecture me.

From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix

I hope you recollect the circumstance, and know what I allude to; else, you may think that I am soaring into the Regions of Romance.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle