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death counting for little
It implies that the tragic world, if taken as it is presented, with all its error, guilt, failure, woe and waste, is no final reality, but only a part of reality taken for the whole, and, when so taken, illusive; and that if we could see the whole, and the tragic facts in their true place in it, we should find them, not abolished, of course, but so transmuted that they had ceased to be strictly tragic,—find, perhaps, the suffering and death counting for little or nothing, the greatness of the soul for much or all, and the heroic spirit, in spite of failure, nearer to the heart of things [325] than the smaller, more circumspect, and perhaps even 'better' beings who survived the catastrophe.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

destroyer cruiser frigate landing
man of war &c. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship[obs3]; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala[obs3]; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound. ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine[obs3]; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree[Fr]; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy[obs3], cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse|, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST[abbr]; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop[coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully [Nfld.], bateau battery[Can.], broadhorn[obs3], dory, droger[obs3], drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot[obs3]; shallop[obs3], gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble[obs3], punt, cog, kedge, lerret[obs3]; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan[obs3]; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame[obs3]; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

day come from Lisbon
Isham, this day come from Lisbon, with letters from the Queen to the King.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

day Caldes four leagues
990 The people of Aquæ Calidæ or the ‘Hot Springs,’ called at the present day Caldes, four leagues from the city of Barcelona.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

De cette façon les
De cette façon, les vingt mille francs vont à ses enfants et les créanciers ne peuvent toucher un sou .
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

d Compensation for loot
(d) Compensation for loot of food, raw materials, live-stock, machinery, household effects, timber, and the like by the enemy Governments or their nationals in territory occupied by them.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Does care for looke
IV Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin, In woven maile ° all armed warily, 30 And sternly lookes at him, who not a pin Does care for looke of living creatures eye.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

de carne fresca los
Antes de inventarse los procedimientos de congelación que permiten el embarque de carne fresca, los países de la zona templada—que es donde prosperan los ganados—enviaban a los distritos tropicales la carne seca en forma de tasajo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

darling child from London
I want to tell you that I have got my own darling child from London.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

doth count for little
Truly, they used thy name, but that doth count for little, being friends.
— from The Black Box: A Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion by W. Bourne Cooke

Democratic candidate for lieutenant
The Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor, who [Pg 244] opened the canvass for his party, states the money issue substantially as I have.
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard

deceitful cunning for like
[1003] Johann Cochlæus, who had met him at Augsburg, calls him the “fox,” and once warns a friend: “Take care lest he cheat you with his deceitful cunning, for, like the Sirens, he gains a hearing by sweet and honeyed words; he makes a hypocritical use of lying; he is ever planning how he may win men’s hearts by all manner of wiles, and seduces them with dishonest words.”
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

doctor came from London
I used to wear an iron thing to keep my back straight, but a grand doctor came from London to see me and said it was stupid.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dropping cautiously from ledge
Dropping cautiously from ledge to ledge he crept upon the other with the swiftness of a leopard creeping upon its prey.
— from The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer


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