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Cf also Dekker Roaring Girle

Cf. also Dekker, Roaring Girle , Wks. 3. 200: ‘Haue not many handsome legges in silke stockins villanous splay feet for all their great roses?’
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Columbus and down river generally

Applying the principle to your case, my idea is that Halleck shall menace Columbus and "down river" generally, while you menace Bowling Green and East Tennessee.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Castilian ambassador Don Ruy Gonzalez

Chaldia with the capital Trebizond formed one of the military themes of the Byzantine empire; and I should like to add yet another reference to the lists of Professor Lehmann, this one taken from the travels of the Castilian ambassador, Don Ruy Gonzalez Clavigo, in the year 1404.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

cast a dull reddish glow

The light of the torch cast a dull reddish glow out over the muddy eddies.
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

che avido di riportar gloria

Fece plauso al comando il baldanzoso corsaro, che, avido di riportar gloria, al mare affidosi pien di si audace pensiero," &c.— Idem.
— from The Duchess of Trajetto by Anne Manning

cave after dark repair grown

To this cave, after dark, repair grown persons of every age and sex, who pass the night in indulgences of the most gross and sensual description.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Corregio Albert Dürer Rubens Giotto

The principal picture-gallery of Dresden is the finest in Germany, and contains between three and four thousand admirable examples of high art,—the work of such artists as Raphael, Holbein, Corregio, Albert Dürer, Rubens, Giotto, Van Dyck, and other masters already named in these pages.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Captain Antonio del Rio gives

34-* Captain Antonio del Rio gives an account of another destruction of Mayan antiquities, at Huegetan: “The Bishop of Chiapas,
— from The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries by Stephen Salisbury

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