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conceive idealize realize dream dream
V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

century is rather disappointing despite
After the magnificent and beautifully proportioned Mogul architecture of Agra and Delhi, the Golden Temple, built at the beginning of the nineteenth century is rather disappointing, despite its gilded domes, the building looking rather squat, though the gold reflected in the rippling water has a charming effect.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

christened Isaac Roger de Dickey
As a matter of course everybody was dissatisfied; but with a “stern virtue” everybody kept it to themselves, and the heir was accordingly christened Isaac Roger de Dickey Phipps Applebite.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

Clave in Revue des Deux
Jules Clave in Revue des Deux Mondes for 1st March, 1866, p. 209.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

checking it reeled dizzily dipped
So waxed the fight closer, fiercer; griping hands fumbled at mailed throats and men, locked in desperate grapple, fell and were lost 'neath the press; but forward went the tattered banner, on and on until, checking, it reeled dizzily, dipped, swayed and vanished; but Roger had seen and sprang in with darting point.
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

Commission is Rizal Day December
One of the ten annual official holidays, or feast days, appointed by the Civil Commission is “Rizal Day,” December 30.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.


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