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crown Les Emaux et Camées
There were the numerous tales,—tales as perfect as the world has ever seen; "La Morte Amoureuse," "Jettatura," "Une Nuit de Cléopâtre," etc., and then the very diamonds of the crown, "Les Emaux et Camées," "La Symphonie en Blanc Majeure," in which the adjective blanc and blanche is repeated with miraculous felicity in each stanza.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

cat legions embrowned every cottage
On every stercoraceous deposit on coach, [Pg 32] cart, or bridle road, they were busy on grain and pulse; and, in spite of cur and cat, legions embrowned every cottage garden.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

Computational Linguistics EACL European Committee
Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) Ethnologue (The) Eurodicautom / European Commission EUROCALL (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning) European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL) European Committee for the Respect of Cultures and Languages in Europe (ECRCLE) European Language Resources Association (ELRA) European Minority Languages / Sabhal Mór Ostaig European Network in Language and Speech (ELSNET) Fonds francophone des inforoutes / Agence de la francophonie FRANCIL (Réseau francophone de l'ingénierie de la langue) /
— from Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert

calcii lactophosphatis elixir Elixir cinchonae
107 Farfara, 85 Fel bovis, 85 Fennel, 96 oil, 141 seed, 96 water, 141 Fermented milk, 123 Ferrated elixir of calisaya, alkaloidal (Elixir cinchonae alkaloidorum et ferri), 92 extract of apples, 90 [Pg 250] wine of wild cherry, 174 Ferri carbonas, 85 carbonas saccharatus, 86 cinchonae et calcii lactophosphatis, elixir (Elixir cinchonae alkaloidorum, ferri et calcii lactophosphatis), 50 et ammonii citras, 87 et quininae citras, 88 et quininae citras solubilis (Ferri et quininae citras), 88 iodidi syrupus (Syrupus ferri iodidi), 90 iodidum, 90 lactas, 90 lactophosphas, 90 malas, 90 malas crudus (Extractum ferri pomatum), 90 oxidum saccharatum, 91 protochloridum, 92 tersulphas, 94 Ferric acetate, 85 acetate solution, 85 and gentian phosphate elixir, 92 chloride, 86 chloride solution, 86 chloride, tincture, ethereal, 87 chloride, tasteless tincture (Tinctura ferri citro-chloridi), 87 chloride tincture, 86 citrate, 87 citrate, soluble (Ferri et ammonii citras), 87 citrate solution, 87 citro-chloride tincture, 87 citro-chloride tincture with gentian elixir (Elixir gentianae et ferri), 87 glycerinophosphate (Ferri glycerophosphas), 88 glycerophosphate, 88 hydrate with magnesia (Ferri hydroxidum cum magnesii oxido), 88 hydroxide, 88 hydroxide (Magma ferri hydroxidi), 89 hydroxide magma, 89 hydroxide, with, magnesium oxide, 88 hypophosphite, 89 hypophosphite elixir, 89 hypophosphite solution, 89 hypophosphite syrup, 89 nitrate, 91 nitrate solution, 91 oxide, soluble (Ferri oxidum saccharatum), 91 oxychloride, 91 oxychloride solution, 91 oxysulphate, 91 oxysulphate solution, 91 phosphate, 91 phosphate elixir, 92 phosphate, soluble (Ferri phosphas), 91 pyrophosphate, 92 pyrophosphate elixir, 93 pyrophosphate, quinine and strychnine elixir, 93 pyrophosphate, soluble (Ferri pyrophosphas), 92 salicylate solution, 206 subsulphate, 93 subsulphate solution, 93 sulphate, basic solution (Liquor ferri subsulphatis), 93 sulphate solution, 94 Ferrous carbonate, 85 carbonate mass, 85 carbonate pills, 86 chloride, 92 chloride solution, 92 chloride syrup, 92 iodide, 90 iodide pills, 90 iodide syrup, 90 lactate, 90 malate, 90 sulphate, 93 sulphate, dried (Ferri sulphas exsiccatus), 93 sulphate, exsiccated, 93 sulphate, granulated, 94 sulphate, precipitated (Ferri sulphas granulatus), 94 Ferruginous pills (Pilulae ferri carbonatis), 86 Ferrum, 94 albuminatum, 94 oxydatum saccharatum (Ferri oxidum saccharatum), 91 peptonatum, 94 redactum (Ferrum reductum),
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

Camp Life etc etc CHAPTER
CHAPTER I The organization of the Regiment—Rendezvous at Danville—We start for Cincinnati, etc., etc. CHAPTER II Arrival at Cincinnati—Camp in the corn-stalk huts at Covington, Kentucky—Incidents of Camp Life, etc., etc. CHAPTER III First night on picket—Asleep on post—Shooting at Capt.
— from The 125th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Attention Batallion! by Robert M. Rogers

commentaries liturgies epistles etc can
His works, comprising homilies, commentaries, liturgies, epistles, etc., can be found in 13 volumes, fol. (1718).
— from Through the Year with Famous Authors by Mabel Patterson

Congress likewise exercises exclusive control
Congress likewise exercises exclusive control over the District of Columbia, and over all places purchased by the Federal government for the erection of forts, arsenals, and similar buildings.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

chasser les ennemis et couvrir
Le duc de Dalmatie renverra promptement le 6 me corps sur Salamanque pour en chasser les ennemis, et couvrir la Vieille Castille conjointement avec le Général Kellermann.’
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman


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