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a common service easily cabal
When, as in the case I am speaking of, ‘tis against a poor old man and for the children, then they make use of this title to serve their passion with glory; and, as for a common service, easily cabal, and combine against his government and dominion. — from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
and coarsely shaped ears combined
His glance was keen but showed cunning rather than intelligence; his lips were straight, and so thin that, as they closed, they were drawn in over the teeth; his cheek-bones were broad and projecting, a never-failing proof of audacity and craftiness; while the flatness of his forehead, and the enlargement of the back of his skull, which rose much higher than his large and coarsely shaped ears, combined to form a physiognomy anything but prepossessing, save in the eyes of such as considered that the owner of so splendid an equipage must needs be all that was admirable and enviable, more especially when they gazed on the enormous diamond that glittered in his shirt, and the red ribbon that depended from his button-hole. — from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
They tell us, in their stead, to praise The jokes on seasonable ills, The epigrams on quarter-days, The jeux d'esprit on mud and bills; But as for honest glee and cheer, Since every cause for joy's demolished, Why, Christmas, too, it's amply clear, Should be left out—in fact, "abolished." — from Punch, or the London Charivari, January 5th, 1895 by Various
Alfredus ciuitates suas et castella
[530] There is a good passage on this point in Ingulf, p. 27: ‘Alfredus … ciuitates suas et castella sua renouauit, turres et munitiones in locis magis necessariis construxit, ac totam terrae faciem in formam multo meliorem immutatam, per oppida murata, et alia loca munitissima contra barbaros insuperabilem fore fecit’; cf. — from The Life and Times of Alfred the Great
Being the Ford lectures for 1901 by Charles Plummer
also comely shapely empty clean
clams, vice or pincers, used by saddlers and shoemakers clap, press down; pat; fondle, clashes, blows; slaps; messes, also gossip; tittle-tattle clash-pyet, tell-tale; scandal-monger, clean, altogether; entirely, also comely; shapely; empty; clean cleant, cleaned, clear-e'ed, clear-eyed, cleed, clothe; shelter, cleedin', clothing; sheltering, cleuks, claws; hands; paws, clo'en, cloven, clomb, climbed, clood, cloud, cloods, clouds, cloody, cloudy, close, narrow alley; blind alley, also enclosed land closin', closing, clype, tell tales; gossip, coaties, children's coats; petticoats, coaton, cotton, coats, petticoats, coch, coach, coches, coaches, coff, buy, colliginer, college student, also college boy Come yer wa's butt., Come on in., comin', coming, comman'ment, commandment, compleen, complain, con thanks, return thanks, considerin', considering, contradickit, contradicted, contrairy, contrary, contred, contradicted; thwarted; crossed, convence, convince, conversin', conversing, convertit, converted, coorse, coarse, also course coort, court, corbie, crow; raven, cornel, colonel, correck, correct, cottar, farm tenant; cottager, cottars, farm tenants; cottagers, cottar-wark, stipulated work done by the cottager, couldna, could not, coupit, tilted; tumbled; drank off, couples, rafters, crackin', cracking, cracklin', crackling, crap o' the wa', natural shelf between wall and roof, crappit, topped; cropped; lopped, crappit heids, stuffed head of cod or haddock, crater, creature, cratur, creature, craturs, creatures, cried, called; summoned, crookit, crooked, croon, crown, croudin', cooing; croaking; groaning, Cry Moany, Cremona, make of violin cryin', calling; summoning, cryin' doon, decrying; depreciating, cud, could, cudna, could not, culd, could, cumber, encumbrance; inconvenience, cunnin', cunning, curst, cursed, cuttin', cutting, cutty pipe, short tobacco-pipe, cwytes, petticoats, dacent, decent, dame, young unmarried woman; damsel, also farmer's wife damnin', damning; condemning, dancin', dancing, dang, knock; bang; drive, also damn darnin', darning, dauchter, daughter, daunerin', strolling; sauntering; ambling, daur, dare; challenge, daured, dared; challenged, daurna, dare not; do not dare, daursay, dare say, dauty, darling; pet, term of endearment dawtie, darling; pet, term of endearment daylicht, daylight, debosh, excessive indulgence; debauch, also extravagance; waste deboshed, debauched; worthless, deceitfu', deceitful, deceivin', deceiving, dee, do, also die deed, died, also deed; indeed 'deed, indeed, dee'd, died, deein', doing, also dying deevil, devil, deevil-ma'-care, devil-may-care; utterly careless, also no matter deevilry, devilry, deevils, devils, deid, dead, deif, deaf, deil, devil, also not de'il, devil, also not De'il a bit!, Not at all! — from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
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