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CHESTNUTS LENTICULAM DE CASTANEIS
[1] AND CHESTNUTS LENTICULAM DE CASTANEIS
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

call little dry creek
side; the first of these we call little dry creek it contained some water in standing pools but discharged none, the 2ed 50 yards wide no Water, we called it Big dry Creek, the 3rd is bed of a conspicuous river 200 yards wide which we called little dry river; the banks of these streams are low and bottoms wide with but little timber, their beds are almost entirely formed of a fine brown sand intermixed with a small proportion of little pebbles, which were either transparent, white, green, red, yellow or brown.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

cease LL divorce Chr
tōtwǣman (ē, ēa) to separate, divide, dis-sever , AO ; Æ: break up, break in pieces, dissolve : cause to cease , LL: divorce , Chr 958 d .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

called LISTSERV distributes copies
There, a computer program called LISTSERV distributes copies of the message to names on an electronic address list.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

cinquanta legue de cauit
i Queſto porto ſta de latitudine in cinque gradi et noue menuti et longi cinquanta legue de cauit.
— 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

clearly lucidly distinctly CP
beorhtan = bierhtan beorhtblōwende bright-blooming , Lcd 1·404 9 . beorhte brightly, brilliantly, splendidly : clearly, lucidly, distinctly , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

corta le daré cinco
no me corta le daré cinco pesetas, pero si me corta le mataré sin piedad.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Con leche de coco
Con leche de coco y melaza, la harina tostada del maíz constituye un dulce exquisito que llaman tequiche y chancaca .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

confundir la droguería con
la droguería ... de. V ARIANT : Preciso es no confundir la droguería con .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

certain Louis de Castille
The duke de Medina-Sidonia, naturally proud and vain, and whose jealousy had been secretly raised by the regal dignity of his brother-in-law, presently perceived that the marquis’s letter was only a cover for much deeper designs; he therefore instantly sent off a certain Louis de Castille, his confident, to confer with him on the subject.
— from The History of the Revolutions of Portugal by abbé de Vertot

Creek Leavenworth Daily Conservative
The same charge was made against the Indians who fought at Wilson's Creek [Leavenworth Daily Conservative , August 24, 1861].
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel

C L Dodgson could
If this was so—and the Rev. C. L. Dodgson could not possibly exaggerate any more than "Lewis Carroll" could avoid exaggeration—how much better it would have been for him to listen to my wordless and harmless imitation of a public entertainer than to sit in the Common Room and listen to profane anecdotes from the lips of his fellow ministers of religion!
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

can learn Dr Cook
So far as I can learn, Dr. Cook has never made a "confession" in regard to his trip to the Pole in the sense that he denied his first statements.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

contributes luminosity during combustion
The inventor contends that the kaolin by becoming heated diminishes the resistance of the circuit, and thus permits of the passage of the electric spark more easily through the carbons, and also, we believe, asserts that the kaolin being electrolytically decomposed as the carbons are consumed, becomes converted into silica, which melts and drops down, whilst the aluminium liberated contributes luminosity during combustion to the flame.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

cardinals legates deans canons
If the above will not suffice, then his Holiness will give order and desire for the maintenance and defence of the holy faith, to all bishops, archbishops, cardinals, legates, deans, canons, priests, and curates, and also to all sorts of monasteries, to help with certain money which may be needful, to subdue and proceed in this good deed.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude


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