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circuit around MD environ S3 envyroun
Enviroun , adv. in a circuit, around, MD; environ , S3; envyroun , S3.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

cum adversus minas et supplicia et
cum adversus minas, et supplicia, et tormenta componitur? cum libertatem suam adversus reges ac Principes erigit."
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

crying and moping ever since except
‘You are reconciled then?’ said Perker. ‘Not a bit of it,’ answered Wardle; ‘she has been crying and moping ever since, except last night, between tea and supper, when she made a great parade of writing a letter that I pretended to take no notice of.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

cum adversus minas et supplicia et
cum adversus minas, et supplicia, et tormenta componitur? cum libertatem suam adversus reges ac Principes erigit.'
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

coral are mere empty spaces empty
No such law holds in Heterophyllia, whose case is essentially different from the others: inasmuch as the chambers whose partition we are discussing in the coral are mere empty spaces (empty save for the mere access of sea-water); while in our histological and embryological instances, we were speaking of the division of a cellular unit of living protoplasm.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

castles and mansions ever seem eerie
Now, to me, brought up in a Highland farm-steading (for the house of Elrigmore is without great spaciousness or pretence), large and rambling castles and mansions ever seem eerie.
— from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

Cum autem mortuus est si est
Cum autem mortuus est, si est de maioribus, sepelitur occultè in campo vbi placuerit: sepelitur autem cum statione sedendo in medio eius, et ponunt mensam ante eum, et alueum carnibus plenum, et cyphum lactis iumentini: Sepelitur autem cum eo vnum iumentum cum pullo, et equus cum fræno et sella: et alium equum comedunt et stramine corium implent,
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

Continent and more especially South Eastern
Hostilities were continued, however, in other parts of 38 Europe, and the long war dragged on, Napoleon over-running the Continent and more especially South-Eastern Europe almost unchecked, till Ulm, where the Austrians were defeated October 17-20, 1805.
— from Tyrol and Its People by Clive Holland

circumstances and may each severally exist
The train of symptoms usually described as characterizing wounds of the lung must not be expected to be all constantly present; they are each liable to be modified by a great variety of circumstances, and may each severally exist in penetrating wounds of the chest where the lung has escaped perforation.
— from A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds by Longmore, T. (Thomas), Sir


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