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countless experiments some excellent
In this rivalry of every kind of industry—in the midst of this immense competition and these countless experiments, some excellent workmen are formed who reach the utmost limits of their craft.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Cujus est solum ejus
Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad cœlum —He 55 who owns the soil owns everything above it to the very sky.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

corrigiae et sternutamenta erunt
Quae si suscipiamus, pedis offensio nobis et abruptio corrigiae et sternutamenta erunt observanda.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Communists everywhere support every
In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

concessit ei sanguinem et
] Note 127 ( return ) [ Ingrediens autem Ravennam deposuit Augustulum de regno, cujus infantiam misertus concessit ei sanguinem; et quia pulcher erat, tamen donavit ei reditum sex millia solidos, et misit eum intra Campaniam cum parentibus suis libere vivere.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Crockett E S Ellis
First Across the Continent N. Brooks Handy Parliamentary Rules Craig Hinds, Noble & Co. {388} Heroes of the Polar Seas J. K. Maclean Lippincott How George Rogers Clark won the Northwest R. G. Thwaites Incentives for Life J. W. Ludlow Revell Co. Indian Boyhood Eastman Indian Fights and Fighters Brady Indian Story and Song Fletcher Letters to American Boys Carruth Life of David Crockett E. S. Ellis Life of John Gutenberg Emily C. Pearson Hurst & Co. Life Questions of High School Boys Jenks Association Press Living Races of Mankind, Vol IV and V The University Society.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

cf ex sententia ex
For this use of ex cf. ex sententia , ex voluntate .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

classiques en sont encore
Mais si les écrivains français classiques en sont encore à se demander s'ils ne préfèrent pas le petit carnet Clairefontaine, le Bic ou le Mont-Blanc fétiche, et un usage modéré du traitement de texte, plutôt que l'ordinateur connecté, voire l'installation, c'est que l'HTX (littérature hypertextuelle, ndlr) nécessite un travail d'accouchement visuel qui n'est pas la vocation originaire de l'écrivain papier.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

constables eight scavengers eight
Thus much for Cordwainer street ward; which hath an alderman, his deputy, common councillors eight, constables eight, scavengers eight, wardmote inquest men fourteen, and a beadle.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

change enough society enough
Was Camberwell disagreeing with her?—was the house damp, or her room badly situated?—had not the dear girl change enough, society enough?—what was the matter?
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson

cutaneous eruptions secretions exhalations
Let us cease then to consider this organ as the sole agent which presides over the motion of the great vessels and the small, which, in these last, driving the blood abundantly to a part, produces there inflammation, which by its impulse causes the different cutaneous eruptions, secretions, exhalations, &c.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

Capital entry significantly expanded
vernment category, the Capital entry significantly expanded with up to four subfields, including new information having to do with time.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

choeur en subsiste encore
Le choeur en subsiste encore, et les Turcs en ont fait une mosquée.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

crush em squeeze em
Burn ‘em, tear ‘em, nip ‘em with hot pincers, drown ‘em, hang ‘em, spit ‘em at the bunghole, pelt ‘em, paut ‘em, bruise ‘em, beat ‘em, cripple ‘em, dismember ‘em, cut ‘em, gut ‘em, bowel ‘em, paunch ‘em, thrash ‘em, slash ‘em, gash ‘em, chop ‘em, slice ‘em, slit ‘em, carve ‘em, saw ‘em, bethwack ‘em, pare ‘em, hack ‘em, hew ‘em, mince ‘em, flay ‘em, boil ‘em, broil ‘em, roast ‘em, toast ‘em, bake ‘em, fry ‘em, crucify ‘em, crush ‘em, squeeze ‘em, grind ‘em, batter ‘em, burst ‘em, quarter ‘em, unlimb ‘em, behump ‘em, bethump ‘em, belam ‘em, belabour ‘em, pepper ‘em, spitchcock ‘em, and carbonade ‘em on gridirons, these wicked heretics!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

c end stanza end
Thus in the stilly night, &c. end stanza end poem and poem container end of chapter 028.png
— from Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 5 A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs by Various


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