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au respect du droit
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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

a right discreet damsel
Wherefore, in reverence of Him unto whom all things live and for our own solacement, Filomena, a right discreet damsel, shall, as queen, govern our kingdom for the coming day."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

au respect du droit
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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

a river drifts downstream
And then his wife might set out to look for him, and she too would feel the cold; and perhaps she would have some of the children with her—and so a whole family would drift into drinking, as the current of a river drifts downstream.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

a real discussion descending
And the discussion must be a real discussion, descending to foundations, and not resting satisfied with vague and general assertions.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

a religious dance denominated
It was a religious dance, denominated from fire, with which it was accompanied.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

a rare degree domestic
The church of the Pantepoptes was founded or restored by Anna Dalassena, 349 the mother of Alexius I. Comnenus (1081-1118), one of the most remarkable women in Byzantine history, combining to a rare degree domestic virtues with great political ambition and administrative ability.
— from Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

Anderson R D Davis
—Selah B. Strong, Henry C. Murphy, J. Philips Phœnix, William B. Maclay, Moses G. Leonard, Hamilton Fish, Jos. H. Anderson, R. D. Davis, Jas. G. Clinton, Jeremiah Russell, Zadoc Pratt, David L. Seymour, Daniel D. Barnard, Wm.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

a river dancing down
There are no gaps up which the eye can look to gleaming snow fields, till all at once we emerge on the basin of Cauterets, where the mountains fall back and open and show us the sunlit snow, and a river dancing down in a fine fall, and before us a bit of Paris dropped out of the clouds into this solitude.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

and rather deep depression
In his immediate front there lay before him a broad and rather deep depression on the further side of which there faced him the right Kazan column of two battalions, on the left of which was reforming the right Vladimir column whose retreat from the vicinity of the redoubt had been compelled by the pressure of the Guards on front and flank.
— from Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde by Archibald Forbes

and Recueil de Dissertations
He now published all he had formerly composed on the affair of Maria d’Agreda, and two other works; the one, “ Traité historique et dogmatique sur les Apparitions, les Visions, et les Révélations particulières ,” in two volumes; and “ Recueil de Dissertations anciennes et nouvelles, sur les Apparitions, &c. ,” with a catalogue of authors on this subject, in four volumes.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

all respect did declare
Having done discourse with him and directed him to go with my advice to my Lord expresse to-morrow to get his pardon perfected before his going, because of what I read the other night in Sir W. Coventry's letter, I to the office, and there had an extraordinary meeting of Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen, and my Lord Bruncker and I to hear my paper read about pursers, which they did all of them with great good will and great approbation of my method and pains in all, only Sir W. Pen, who must except against every thing and remedy nothing, did except against my proposal for some reasons, which I could not understand, I confess, nor my Lord Bruncker neither, but he did detect indeed a failure or two of mine in my report about the ill condition of the present pursers, which I did magnify in one or two little things, to which, I think, he did with reason except, but at last with all respect did declare the best thing he ever heard of this kind, but when Sir W. Batten did say, "Let us that do know the practical part of the Victualling meet Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen and I and see what we can do to mend all," he was so far from offering or furthering it, that he declined it and said, he must be out of towne.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

a real diversity does
But if the communal self-administration had no place in Egypt, and in this respect a real diversity does not exist between the two nations of which this state, just like the Syrian, was composed, there was in another respect a barrier erected between them, to which Syria offers no parallel.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen


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