"bajada" hidden in books

become a jeweller and devote all

When I have got ten thousand I will give up the glass trade and become a jeweller, and devote all my time to trading in pearls, diamonds, and other precious stones.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

beams and jaundices and darkness and

And thus they go on to the end of their term of life, full of their own fixed ideas, with their eyes full of beams and jaundices and darkness and death.
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

Ben and Joel and David and

Mrs. Pepper, as audience, was seated in her big rocking chair that Ben had brought out from the kitchen and placed in the best spot on the grass to see it all, and Polly and Ben and Joel and David and Phronsie were in the depths of excitement, and flitting here and there, Polly, as chief director, having a perfectly awful time to get them into their parts, particularly as Phronsie would keep rushing up, the old white fur rug nearly tripping her up every step, to lay her soft face against Mother Pepper's, and cry out, "I'm to be a white cat, Mamsie.
— from The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney

Bob and Jim and Dave and

Bob and Jim and Dave and Reg and Willy...." Walt shrugged.
— from Earth Alert! by Kris Neville

bestowed as judiciously and disinterestedly as

If all patronage were bestowed as judiciously and disinterestedly as his, we should not see the public offices filled with men who draw salaries and perform no duties.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Bulwer and James and Dickens and

If I attempt a tale, there are Bulwer, and James, and Dickens, and Hawthorne.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

bottles and jars and dust and

In he walked without so much as a rap at the door, and so led the way to a great room with furnaces and books and bottles and jars and dust and cobwebs, and three grinning skulls upon the mantelpiece, each with a candle stuck atop of it, and there he left the soldier while he went to get the hundred dollars.
— from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle

bought at Jaffa and distilled at

Another local product bought at Jaffa and distilled at Rishon-le-Zion, was red wine.
— from Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown

below are Jerusalem and Damascus and

In the next range below are Jerusalem and Damascus and Levant and Purgatory Mills.
— from When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day

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