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breast or bottle
pa- v [A; ac] feed with the breast or bottle.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

be over by
“It will begin early next May and will be over by October,” Pyotr Stepanovitch said suddenly.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

bawd or buffoon
where personal? except to a mimic, cheater, bawd or buffoon, creatures, for their insolencies, worthy to be taxed?
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

be open books
The religions and literatures of the world will be open books, which he who wills may read.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

bay or Baffin
I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their voyages, Some double the cape of Storms, some cape Verde, others capes Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore, Others Dondra head, others pass the straits of Sunda, others cape Lopatka, others Behring's straits, Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson's bay or Baffin's bay, Others pass the straits of Dover, others enter the Wash, others the firth of Solway, others round cape Clear, others the Land's End, Others traverse the Zuyder Zee or the Scheld, Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles, Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs, Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena, Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia, Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

being observed by
Franz could not forbear breaking in upon the apparently interesting conversation passing between the countess and Albert, to inquire of the former if she knew who was the fair Albanian opposite, since beauty such as hers was well worthy of being observed by either sex.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

bed our boy
Thence I to White Hall a little, and so took up my wife at the ‘Change, and so home, and at the office late, and so home to supper and to bed, our boy ill.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

being or beings
The latter is then said to be relatively, extrinsically possible—in relation to such being or beings.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

bundle of birch
The torch is made of a bundle of birch bark held in a split stick ( Fig. 81 ).
— from Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard

bad one but
“Well,” went on the captain, “I told her that the last suggestion weren’t such a bad one, but there was one little objection to it.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Burdale obeyed but
Burdale obeyed; but he evidently stood greatly in awe of the person who had spoken to him.
— from John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

bit of blue
At this Kathie began to plait most diligently, and Laura, finding a bit of blue ribbon somewhere about her dress, tied the end of the long braid with it.
— from The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story by Helen Ashe Hays

Boyce or Boyes
The corresponding name of French origin is Boyce or Boyes , Fr. bois (Chapter XIV).
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley

back of Berryhead
The night that the squadron anchored at the back of Berryhead, Buonaparte sent for me about ten P.M. , and said he was informed by Bertrand that I had received orders to remove him to the Northumberland, and wished to know if that was the case; on being told that it was, he requested that I would write a letter to Bertrand, stating I had such orders, that it might not appear he went of his own accord, but that he had been forced to do so.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume V. by Walter Scott

been otherwise but
Had he been different in temperament, or had I, it might have been otherwise, but with the conditions as they existed, it was inevitable, and, after the initial step was once taken, it was better so.
— from A Master Hand: The Story of a Crime by Richard Dallas


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