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avenging boy Did soone pluck
XII 100 Ensample make ° of him your haplesse joy, And of my selfe now mated, as ye see; Whose prouder vaunt that proud avenging boy Did soone pluck downe and curbd my libertie.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

are but dim shall perfetly
Why but to awe, Why but to keep ye low and ignorant, His worshippers; he knows that in the day Ye Eate thereof, your Eyes that seem so cleere, Yet are but dim, shall perfetly be then Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as Gods, Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

are but dim shall perfectly
He knows that in the day Ye eat thereof, your eyes that seem so clear, Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then Opened and cleared, and ye shall be as Gods, Knowing both good and evil, as they know.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

are but dim shall perfetly
Yet are but dim, shall perfetly be then Op’nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as Gods, Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

ang bátag dulsi sa pagkatúlug
Haylúa ang bátag dulsi sa pagkatúlug, Entice the child with candy to make him go to bed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

a bend dancetté sable plain
An instance of a bend dancetté is found in the arms of Cuffe (Lord Desart), which are: Argent, on a bend dancetté sable, plain cotised azure, three fleurs-de-lis, and on each cotise as many bezants.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Also Bulletin des Sciences Pharmacologiques
Also , Bulletin des Sciences Pharmacologiques, 1905, XII: 152.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

ambassador Brulart de Sillery powers
On the 6th of January, 1600, Henry IV. gave his ambassador, Brulart de Sillery, powers to conclude at Florence his marriage with Mary de’ Medici, daughter of Francis I. de’ Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, and Joan, archduchess of Austria and niece of the grand duke Ferdinand I. de’ Medici, who had often rendered Henry IV.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6 by Chautauqua Institution

and barking dogs some person
Let us imagine that when this business was proceeding with tremendous excitement and noise of shouting men and barking dogs, some person buried at that spot in old Palæolithic times had been raised up to view the spectacle; that it had been explained to him that these hunters were his own remote descendants; that one of them was a mighty nobleman, a kind of chief or king, whose possessions extended on every side as far as the eye could see; that the others were his followers who served and obeyed him; and that they were all engaged in hunting and killing the last badger, the most terrible wild beast left in the land!
— from Birds in London by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

aroused by Dr Samuel Prescott
[76] Concord, seventeen miles northwesterly from Boston was first aroused by Dr. Samuel Prescott, between one and two o'clock in the morning of the 19th.
— from The Battle of April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts by Frank Warren Coburn

a broad dry sandy path
Across a broad, dry, sandy path, worn firm, some thousands of ants passing to and fro their nest had left a slight trail.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

Ahmed BENJELLOUN Democratic Society Party
[Mohamed BENHAMOU]; Constitutional Union Party or UC [Mohammed ABIED]; Democratic and Social Movement or MDS [Mahmoud ARCHANE]; Democratic Forces Front or FFD [Touhami EL KHIARI]; Democratic Socialist Vanguard Party or PADS [Ahmed BENJELLOUN]; Democratic Society Party or PSD [Zhor CHEKKAFI]; Democratic Union or UD
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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