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balatían buut dughan
2 — ang balatían, buut, dughan, dugù, nawung be disgusted, against one’s wishes, get a heavy heart, lo
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

by burning down
The Grand Commander, Requesens, by an organized system of wholesale butchery and devastation, by burning down villages, and smoking the people to death in the caves where they had sought refuge, extinguished the last spark of open revolt before the 5th of November, 1570.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

boughs being dipped
I took it to be the same as the plant, one of whose boughs being dipped by Jove’s priest in the Agrian fountain on the Lycian mountain in Arcadia, in time of drought raised vapours which gathered into clouds, and then dissolved into rain that kindly moistened the whole country.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

battle by daylight
Ask Captain Dampmartin; an authentic, ingenious literary officer of horse; who loves the Reign of Liberty, after a sort; yet has had his heart grieved to the quick many times, in the hot South-Western region and elsewhere; and has seen riot, civil battle by daylight and by torchlight, and anarchy hatefuller than death.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But Bacchldes drew
But Bacchldes drew his army out of their camp, and put them in array for the battle.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

bells by dozens
The streets are sprinkled from end to end with shovel-hatted, long-robed, well-fed priests, and the church bells by dozens are pealing all the day long, nearly.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

b5 bother disturb
2 [A; b5] bother, disturb.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

begin by describing
Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises?
— from The Republic by Plato

battlefield by Delacroix
It presented one picture, a canvas as full of figures as a battlefield by Delacroix.
— from The Spider's Web by Reginald Wright Kauffman

both bobsleds dashed
And away both bobsleds dashed, and the great race was on.
— from The Rover Boys on a Hunt; or, The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer

Belle begged Dave
"Go right on to Laura's, Belle," begged Dave quickly.
— from Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

b be discharged
113.) be the section of a plate of any dielectric, a and b being the metallic coatings; let b be uninsulated, and a be charged positively; after ten or fifteen minutes, if a and b be discharged, insulated, and immediately examined, no electricity will appear in them; but in a short time, upon a second examination, they will appear charged in the same way, though not to the same degree, as they were at first.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Brantôme Balzac Dumas
[73] country, with its winding rivers and white roads shaded by tall poplars, and by such old gray towns as Étampes, Orléans, Blois, and Amboise, without recalling the delight with which we have wandered here in such goodly company as that of Brantôme, Balzac, Dumas, and Madame de Sévigné.
— from In Château Land by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

but Brendon discovered
She exhibited a good deal of manner and less actual sorrow than might have been expected; but Brendon discovered that she had only known Robert Redmayne for half a year and their actual engagement was not of much more than a month's duration.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

But Brotherson did
But Brotherson did not drink.
— from Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

barn but did
Labonte Sr. moved to the place of Gervais and engaged with him in raising wheat, and, among other improvements, built a barn; but did not complete a location of his own.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (Vol. I, No. 2) by Oregon Historical Society

but by degrees
They listened and looked, said little, but by degrees drew out from her all the history of the evening's entertainment.
— from Trading by Susan Warner


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