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celeriter dēnique dfrūstrā
vīnum Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions adversus attentus cārus commōtus dēfessus dexter dubius maximus perfidus plēnus saevus sinister Adverbs anteā celeriter dēnique dfrūstrā graviter ita longē semper subitō tamen tum Conjunctions autem sī ubi 272
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

cereal diet developed far
Some years ago Wherry made a similar observation in the course of experiments with the plague bacillus—guinea-pigs fed on a cereal diet developed far more hemorrhages subsequent to infection than those which received cabbage in addition.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Cuban dance derived from
danzón , m. ( Sp. A. ), a Cuban dance derived from the contradanza .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

currency dealer Devisenhändler foreign
Ware the value of the goods der Wiederverwendung zuführen recycle der Wille der Parteien intention of the parties der wirkliche Verdienst the real reward der Zeitpunkt; an dem die Frist abläuft the date of expiration der Zinsbetrag the interest amount der zu entscheidende Streitpunkt the point at issue der zugegangene Auftrag the order received der zunehmende Einfluss the increasing influence der zunehmende Einfluss von the increasing influence of derb: grob rough deren Teilnahme whose participation deren Unterstützung von Wert war whose support has been of value derjenige dem der Vorbehalt gegeben wurde the party to whom the reserve was made derjenige der Bücher verschleiert cook of the books derjenige der solche Ermächtigung erteilt the party giving such authority derjenige; dem eine Vollmacht gegeben wird donee derjenige; dem eine Ware überlassen ist abandonee des Handels und der Industrie of commerce and industry des Verkäufers einzige Verantwortung the seller's only responsibility dessen eigentliche Bedeutung ist properly meaning detaillierte technische Aufgliederung specification detaillierte Zeichnung detailed drawing deuten; Punkt point Devisen foreign currency Devisen foreign exchange Devisenabkommen exchange arrangement Devisenausländer non-resident person Devisenbedarf need of foreign exchange Devisenbewirtschaftung exchange control Devisenbewirtschaftung foreign exchange control Devisengeschäft transaction in foreign exchange Devisengeschäfte exchange transactions Devisengeschäfte foreign exchange transactions Devisenhändler currency dealer Devisenhändler foreign exchange dealer Deviseninländer resident person Devisenkontrolle control of exchanges Devisenkontrolle control of foreign exchange Devisenkontrolle exchange control Devisenkontrolle foreign exchange control Devisenkurs exchange rate Devisenkursliste exchange list Devisenmakler foreign exchange broker Devisenmarkt exchange market Devisenmarkt foreign exchange market Devisenschalter exchange counter Devisenterminabschluß foreign exchange contract Devisentermingeschäft forward exchange dealing Devisenterminhandel future exchange Devisenterminkurs forward exchange rate Devisenzuteilung allocation of foreign exchange dezentralisieren decentralize Dezentralisierung decentralization Dezentralisierung der Geschäftsleitung decentralization of management Dezentralisierung der Industrie industrial decentralization dezimal decimal dezimalisieren decimalize Dezimalisierung decimalization Dezimalsystem decimal system Diagramm; Schaubild diagram Diapositivwerbung slide advertising die ergänzten Vertragsformeln the amended terms die abgezogenen Aufwendungen
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

contemptuous diplomatic Dumouriez falls
This defection of contemptuous diplomatic Dumouriez falls heavy on the fine-spoken high-sniffing Hommes d'etat, whom he consorted with; forms a second epoch in their destinies.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

claiming direct descent from
The Jews of the Malabar coast have actually become black, and so has also in Africa many an Arab claiming direct descent from the Prophet himself.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Came down direct from
The good old times for cutting throats that cried out in their need, The good old times for hunting men who held their fathers' creed, The good old times when William Pitt, as all good men agreed, Came down direct from Paradise at more than railroad speed. . . .
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

came down dressed for
page 155 p. 155 CHAPTER XXIII VELVET Constance created quite a sensation when she came down dressed for church on Christmas Day in a dark blue velvet jacket, deeply trimmed with silver fox, and a hat and muff en suite , matching with her serge dress, and though unpretending, yet very handsome.
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Cromwell Daniel De Foe
Oliver Cromwell, Daniel De Foe, Sir Richard Steele, Charles Churchill, Samuel Foote.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

children directly descended from
If there had been no other proof of this I, who from long habit knew how to read Napoleon's thoughts by his acts, found a sufficient one in the decree issued at Milan by which Napoleon adopted Eugene as his son and successor to the crown of Italy, in default of male and legitimate children directly descended from him.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

cigar Dambergeac drew from
To compensate, however, as much as possible for the loss of my cigar, Dambergeac drew from his pocket an enormous gold snuff-box, on which figured the self-same head that I had before remarked in plaster, but this time surrounded with a ring of pretty princes and princesses, all nicely painted in miniature.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

certainly did dress for
The ladies certainly did dress for the occasion; and not only the ladies, but all the gentlemen.
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

craftiest dissimulator designing fraud
Even the craftiest dissimulator, designing fraud, and stratagem, and murder to a foe, would not, to gain his ends, betray the pledge of the kiss of peace.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

composition do duty for
Compound words do not assume such monstrous proportions as in later Sanskrit, but there is the same tendency to make the process of composition do duty for syntax.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Crombie Davenport Davis Fisk
Grammar, grounded on True Principles ," 1790; also in his "Rudiments of English Grammar," 1811; together with the united authority of Adams, Ainsworth, Alden, Alger, Bacon, Barnard, Bingham, Burr, Bullions, Butler, Churchill, Chandler, Cobbett, Cobbin, Comly, Cooper, Crombie, Davenport, Davis, Fisk, A. Flint, Frost, Guy, Hart, Hiley, Hull, Ingersoll, Jaudon, Kirkham, Lennie, Mack, M'Culloch, Maunder, Merchant, Nixon, Nutting, John Peirce, Perley, Picket, Russell, Smart, R. C. Smith, Rev. T. Smith, Wilcox, and I know not how many others.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Craigavon Down Dungannon Fermanagh
Government United Kingdom Country name: conventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales conventional short form: United Kingdom abbreviation: UK Government type: constitutional monarchy Capital: name: London geographic coordinates: 51 30 N, 0 10 W time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October Administrative divisions: England: 47 boroughs, 36 counties, 29 London boroughs, 12 cities and boroughs, 10 districts, 12 cities, 3 royal boroughs boroughs: Barnsley, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bournemouth, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Bury, Calderdale, Darlington, Doncaster, Dudley, Gateshead, Halton, Hartlepool, Kirklees, Knowsley, Luton, Medway, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, North Tyneside, Oldham, Poole, Reading, Redcar and Cleveland, Rochdale, Rotherham, Sandwell, Sefton, Slough, Solihull, Southend-on-Sea, South Tyneside, St. Helens, Stockport, Stockton-on-Tees, Swindon, Tameside, Thurrock, Torbay, Trafford, Walsall, Warrington, Wigan, Wirral, Wolverhampton counties (or unitary authorities): Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Worcestershire London boroughs: Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth cities and boroughs: Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Salford, Sheffield, Sunderland, Wakefield, Westminster districts: Bath and North East Somerset, East Riding of Yorkshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Somerset, Rutland, South Gloucestershire, Telford and Wrekin, West Berkshire, Wokingham cities: City of Bristol, Derby, City of Kingston upon Hull, Leicester, City of London, Nottingham, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent, York royal boroughs: Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Windsor and Maidenhead Northern Ireland: 24 districts, 2 cities, 6 counties (historic) districts: Antrim, Ards, Armagh, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Banbridge, Carrickfergus, Castlereagh, Coleraine, Cookstown, Craigavon, Down, Dungannon, Fermanagh, Larne, Limavady, Lisburn, Magherafelt, Moyle, Newry and Mourne, Newtownabbey, North Down, Omagh, Strabane cities: Belfast, Londonderry (Derry) counties (historic): County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry, and County Tyrone are still referred to in common parlance, but do not constitute a level of administration Scotland: 32 council areas:
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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