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— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

de communication de plus
C'est pour l'instant juste un moyen de communication de plus (mail) avec nos clients des magasins et nos clients bibliothèques et centres de documentation.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

death could Death prevail
The lamentations of Sancho and the niece and housekeeper are omitted here, as well as the new epitaphs upon his tomb; Samson Carrasco, however, put the following lines: A doughty gentleman lies here; A stranger all his life to fear; Nor in his death could Death prevail, In that last hour, to make him quail.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

des couleurs de poupée
It was a pity: I was not—he believed, in his soul—wholly without good qualities: and would I but hear reason, and be more sedate, more sober, less "en l'air," less "coquette," less taken by show, less prone to set an undue value on outside excellence—to make much of the attentions of people remarkable chiefly for so many feet of stature, "des couleurs de poupée," "un nez plus ou moins bien fait," and an enormous amount of fatuity—I might yet prove an useful, perhaps an exemplary character.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

de chapas de plata
Las cabezas de la enjalma estaban completamente cubiertas de chapas de plata, así como la mayor parte de los grandes estribos de madera, curiosamente tallados, que a uno y otro lado de la montura pendían.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

dreaded contagious disease people
During an epidemic of a dreaded contagious disease, people who are especially susceptible and full of fear become panic-stricken through the cumulative effect of hearing the subject talked about and discussed on every hand and the vivid pictures which come from reading the newspapers.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

devotion chants daily praises
While the Caucasian, with equal devotion, chants daily praises to his slain "Divine Intercessor" for voluntarily offering himself upon the cross for the sins of a fallen race.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

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— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

durissima cura diei Poena
[5751] Insidiae humani generis, querimonia vitae, Exuviae noctis, durissima cura diei, Poena virum, nex et juvenum, &c.——— And to that purpose were they first made, as Jupiter insinuates in the [5752] poet; The fire that bold Prometheus stole from me, With plagues call'd women shall revenged be, On whose alluring and enticing face, Poor mortals doting shall their death embrace.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton


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