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deep a verry extroadernaley
at 28 abov o) and Continued untill about 10 oClock, at which time it Seased, the wind Continued hard untill about 2 P.M. the Snow which fell to day was about 1 In deep, a verry extroadernaley Climate, to behold the trees Green & flowers Spred on the plain, & Snow an inch deep.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

de aere vitali esculentis
Opera omnia—Physica de aere vitali, esculentis, et potutentis, cum appendice de pasergris in victu et chocolatu, thea, coffea, tobaco.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

deserve a very excellent
,” said Tom Smart—he had always a great notion of committing the amiable—“my dear ma’am, you deserve a very excellent husband—you do indeed.”
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

drink ad venerem excitandam
9 , for a citizen of Lyons, in France, gives his reader to understand, that he knew this mischief procured by a medicine of cantharides, which an unskilful physician ministered his patient to drink ad venerem excitandam .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

descends And viewles Echo
As high in air the bursting torrents flow, As deep recoiling surges foam below, Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, And viewles Echo's ear, astonished, rends.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

dove appar vergogna eran
E come a gracidar si sta la rana col muso fuor de l'acqua, quando sogna di spigolar sovente la villana; livide, insin la` dove appar vergogna eran l'ombre dolenti ne la ghiaccia, mettendo
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

dying a very easy
live mindful of our union; and now, farewell!” dying a very easy death, and such as he himself had always wished for.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

DIAMYSUS AD VET eres
JUVEN tii TUTIANI DIAMYSUS AD VET eres CIC atrices .—
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

day and vastly excited
Nor was the horse any more the object of public interest and remark—we may say favoring remark—than the parson, who suddenly found himself the centre of a crowd of his own parishioners, many of whom would scarcely be expected as participants of such a scene, but who, thawed out of their iciness by the genial temper of the day, and vastly excited over Jack's contest, thronged upon the good man, laughing as heartily as any jolly sinner in the crowd.
— from The Busted Ex-Texan, and Other Stories by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

discipline and violent excesses
Breaches of discipline and violent excesses have occurred.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

diversorum armorum vexillorum et
[407] : "factura diversorum armorum, vexillorum, et penocellorum, pro Domino Edwardo filio Regis et Johanne de Lancastria, jamberis, poleyns, platis, uno capello ferri, una Cresta cum clavis argenti pro eodem capello," &c.
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt

drugs and video entertainment
] Note 1107 ( return ) [ Taine's definition would also fit contemporary (1999) drugs and video entertainment which also provide mankind with both hope, pleasure and entertainment.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

depth and vital energy
What is to be said of the depth and vital energy of the Christianity that neither hears the call nor feels the impulse to share its blessing with the famishing Lazarus at its gate?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

denotes a verb expressing
The latter generally denotes a verb expressing an action .
— from A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

down as Vickers entered
He was putting the ’phone down as Vickers entered hurriedly and reported, “Just outside [200] in the road, sir.
— from Front Lines by Boyd Cable

delivered a very eloquent
"The first Wáqi'a Khán was a Persian who delivered a very eloquent oration in his own tongue.
— from The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell


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