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capital del establecimiento comprende
El departamento de las bodegas, parte capital del establecimiento, comprende las secciones de elaboración, fermentación maquinaria, depósito y tonelería.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

concerned during even criminal
It is observable that here and there a presiding justice succeeds in boring all concerned during even criminal cases interesting {15} in themselves; the incident drags on, and people are interested only in finally seeing the end of the matter.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

cold day eat cherry
We lie on soft beds, sit near the radiator on a cold day, eat cherry pie, and devote our attention to one of the opposite sex, not because we have reasoned out that it is the right thing to do, but because it feels right.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

che diceuano eſſere cuſſi
che diceuano eſſere cuſſi homini como lui alhora lo nr̃o cap o fece chiamare tucti li principali deL re et diſſeli ſenon hobediuão aL re como ſuo re li farebe amazare et daria la ſua roba aL re Riſpoſeno lo [ 156 ] hebedirebẽo diſſe aL
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

cordón de ella cuya
—Aquí tienes la campanilla—dijo Rosarito, tomando el cordón de ella, cuya borla caía sobre la cabecera del lecho.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

cui divos et coli
And take here the arguments of the school of philosophy itself:— Nosse cui divos et coli munina soli, Aut soli nescire, datum.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

comercio del Ecuador con
El comercio del Ecuador con Perú y Chile, que casi constituye la totalidad de su intercambio
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

case do evil consequences
Each of these forms of pleasure is natural, each can be greatly heightened by cultivation, in each case the pleasure may be vivid, but is very transient, and in neither case do evil consequences necessarily ensue.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Charles Dodgson examining chaplain
One of these was put up in 1852, in remembrance of the Rev. Charles Dodgson, examining chaplain to Bishop Longley and the father of the author of "Alice in Wonderland."
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Certain differential equations can
Certain differential equations can be found, which hold at every instant for every particle of the system, and which, given the configuration and velocities at one instant, or the configurations at two instants, render the configuration at any other earlier or later instant theoretically calculable.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

could daunt Eliza Cutler
Nothing could daunt Eliza Cutler's spirits, which were a perpetual cordial to those around her.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Cyana did either consume
Yet what comes here in the way, the pleasure is so great, and their loves so tender and newly stamped to each other again; that the young woman thinks she shall do, as formerly Cyana did, either consume her self in tears, or drown'd her self in a River, if she must suffer this.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

can distinguish each craft
In the morning he is ready for the boats as they come home, and he can distinguish each craft exactly, although an outsider would be able to see not a whit of difference.
— from The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman

circuli demonstratio ex Campano
De quadratura circuli demonstratio ex Campano , that appeared without date about 1507.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

castro de Edinburgh c
ad cerandum canubium ad arificiendum pulveris bumbardorum in castro de Edinburgh,” &c. “Chronicles of Scotland,” published by the Deputy Clerk-Register, vi. 495-97.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime


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