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Cynwe n end of

formerly, before Cyntaf, a. first chief, earliest Cyntafanedig, a first-born Cyntedd, n. entry, porch Cyntefig, a. primary, primitive Cyntefigiad, n. origination Cyntefigiaeth, n. primitive, state Cyntefin, n. the first of May: a. amphibious Cynteig, a. prime, or primal Cyntenid, a. primogenial Cynthun, n. first sleep, a nap Cynwas, n. a chief minister Cynwawl, n. primeval light Cynwawr, n. a first dawn Cynwe, n. end of a web Cynwedd, n. first appearance Cynweled, n. a foresight Cynwelediad, n. foreseeing Cynwyd, n. mischief: a evil Cynwyl, a. bashful, modest Cynwyre, v. to ascend up Cynyd, v. to rise, to arise Cyngan, n. speech, discourse Cynghad, n. a concourse Cynghan, a. consonant Cynghanedd, n. consonancy Cynghaneddol, a. harmonious Cynghaneddu, v. to harmonize Cynghanu, v. to love mutually Cynghas, n. mutual hate Cynghau, v. to close together Cynghawg, n. complicate metre, so called Cynghaws, n. issue at law, a suit; an advocate or council Cynghawsaeth, n. pleadings Cynghawsedd, n. law process Cynghel, n. privacy: ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

certainly no evidence of

The date of William Shakespeare's birth has usually been taken as three days before his baptism, but there is certainly no evidence of this fact.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

could not eat or

Having therefore thought of a new trick, he bored a hole with a long gimlet through a cane, and, watching for a moment when the wife of Capodoca was not at the fire, he pushed it more than once through the aforesaid hole in the wall and put as much salt as he wished into his neighbour's pot; wherefore Capodoca, returning either for dinner or for supper, more often than not could not eat or even taste either broth or meat, so bitter was everything through the great quantity of salt.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

could not envy other

Troy had felt, in his transient way, hundreds of times, that he could not envy other people their condition, because the possession of that condition would have necessitated a different personality, when he desired no other than his own.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

could not express or

One after another the people stepped forward and wrung the stranger’s hand with cordial good will, and their eyes looked all that their hands could not express or their lips speak.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

copy ninth edition of

Nikolai Petrovitch extracted from the tail pocket of his frock-coat a copy (ninth edition) of Büchner's well-known work.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

city now emptied of

—I reached Washington city, now emptied of the wise men, and which, after quitting Philadelphia, seems mean, indeed, both morally and physically.
— from Faux's Memorable Days in America, 1819-20; and Welby's Visit to North America, 1819-20, part 2 (1820) by W. (William) Faux

come near each other

At first Nature does not even demand that father and mother shall come near each other.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

contains no element of

The life of Lord Mansfield is nothing to us if it yields no profitable instruction and contains no element of usefulness for the generation to whom our labors are addressed.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

could not express or

One after another the people stepped forward and wrung the stranger's hand with cordial good will, and their eyes looked all that their hands could not express or their lips speak.
— from The Gilded Age, Part 1. by Charles Dudley Warner

could not eat or

I could not eat or sleep in that air.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

caused no end of

Possibly it was Peter’s hungry master who was growing anxious to satisfy a voracious appetite, for Billy’s weakness was well known among his chums, and caused no end of merriment, though he took all the fun poked at him in good part.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Roll of Honor by Robert Shaler

confederacy no executive officer

The Iroquois tribe recognized no head-chief, and the confederacy no executive officer.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

created no end of

A minute later, at a signal from Bluff, the boys raised their lusty voices in a series of whoops that created no end of bustle within the cabin.
— from The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods; Or, Rival Hunters of Lumber Run by Quincy Allen

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