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antes de despedirse de

6. ¿Qué se dice antes de despedirse de un amigo?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

address dear darling duck

love[person who is a favorite (terms of address)], dear, darling, duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel; mopsey[obs3], moppet, princess; sweetheart, sweetie &c. (love) 897.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

and down dale did

Up hill and down dale did they go, by straight ways and crooked, and when they reached the heights of many-fountained Ida, they laid their axes to the roots of many a tall branching oak that came thundering down as they felled it.
— from The Iliad by Homer

abate dequantitate discount depreciate

V. decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge &c. (shorten) 201; shrink &c. (contract) 195; drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend &c. 306; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble. bate, abate, dequantitate|; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate &c. (moderate) 174; dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce &c. 195; shorten &c. 201; subtract &c. 38.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

ANT Differ disagree disaccord

ANT: Differ, disagree, disaccord, miscompose.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Ay do do do

Ay, do, do, do.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

always dripping dripping dripping

And still the pick clangs on in that dark, damp tunnel that is always dripping, dripping, dripping, where it looks out at the glaring day, as if in eternal tears for the wasted life within.
— from Shadows of Shasta by Joaquin Miller

A dark dusty deserted

A dark, dusty, deserted corridor led him nowhere, till he came on a little girl in a brown frock, with her hair down her back.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

answer dying dying dying

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

a Deo debet determinari

11: “ Voluntas creata priusquam se determinet, a Deo debet determinari, quia scil. indifferens sit eaque indifferentia non solvatur quam per praeviam Dei motionem. ” Cfr.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

AT DUNKIRK DAVE DAWSON

Author of : "DAVE DAWSON AT DUNKIRK" "DAVE DAWSON WITH THE R. A. F." "DAVE DAWSON IN LIBYA" "DAVE DAWSON ON CONVOY PATROL" "DAVE DAWSON, FLIGHT LIEUTENANT" "DAVE DAWSON AT SINGAPORE" CROWN PUBLISHERS New York COPYRIGHT, 1942, BY CROWN PUBLISHERS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
— from Dave Dawson with the Pacific Fleet by Robert Sidney Bowen

a damp dismal day

It was a damp, dismal day of fog; but at my elevation I could see clear of it.
— from The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson

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