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defined epidemic character distinguish
It will be noted from the table that the ages of the infants, the distribution of the hemorrhages, the development of signs (in some instances) in spite of antiscorbutic treatment, the sharply defined epidemic character, distinguish these cases from the scurvy commonly seen.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

dealers every crafty device
Editions de luxe ... were published and sold by the picture dealers; ...every crafty device known to the picture trade was resorted to in order to discredit and destroy the heretofore universally accepted standards of aesthetics."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

descontinuar esto cuando duermo
Ni siquiera puedo descontinuar esto cuando duermo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

decir el criado de
—¡Pobres señores!—se permitió decir el criado de la fonda.—El primer hombre del mundo fué Adán.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Donde el caballo de
Donde el caballo de Atila
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

detenido el carro del
Sobre estas columnas fundó una administración que todavía no conoce rival en estos países, y parte de cuyas creaciones, como puntos luminosos han lucido hasta en las negras horas del gobierno bárbaro que por tantos años mantuvo detenido el carro del progreso [2] argentino....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

des Ecoles Chrétiennes Dec
(Conversation with Brother Philippe, July 16, 1845.)—"Statistique de Institut des Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes," Dec.31, 1888.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

draw every cent due
You can both draw every cent due you, and take your time, as wages will go right on the same as if you were working.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

de ellos como de
y destruyendo y poniendo fuego dando en los enemigos tam de supito y con tanta presteça y denuedo que no les daban lugar a que se juntasen ni entendiesen de suerte que eran tan temidos que no auia pueblo que esperar los osase que ansi huyan de ellos como de un poderoso exercito tanto que les aconteçio yr diez dias todo por poblado que no tenian ora de descanso y todo
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

Daum Earl C Davenport
Gen. Edwin N. Clark, James F. Clay, Gen. Lucius D. Clinchy, Everett R. Coffin, Edmund Cohen, Jerome B. Collado, Emilio G. Collings, L. V. Collingwood, Charles P. Colwell, Kent G. Conant, James B. Conant, Melvin Cook, Howard A. Coombs, Charles A. Cooper, Franklin S. Cordier, Andrew W. Cousins, Norman Cowan, L. Gray Cowles, Gardner Cox, Charles R. Creel, Dana S. Cummings, Robert L., Jr. Cusick, Peter Dallin, Alexander Danner, Arthur V. Darrell, Norris Daum, Earl C. Davenport, John Davis, Norman P. Davison, W. Phillips Dean, Arthur H. Debevoise, Eli Whitney De Lima, Oscar A. De Vegh, Imrie De Vries, Henry P. Dewey, Thomas E. D'Harnoncourt, Rene Diebold, William, Jr. Dillon, Clarence Dilworth, J. Richardson Dodge, Cleveland E. Donner, Frederick G. Donovan, Hedley Dorr, Goldthwaite H. Dorwin, Oscar John Douglas, Lewis W. Douglas, Percy L. Dryfoos, Orvil E. Dubinsky, David DuBois, J. Delafield Durdin, Tillman Eagle, Vernon A. Eaton, Fredrick M. Eberstadt, Ferdinand Edelman, Albert I. Eder, Phanor J. Eichelberger, Clark M. Elliott, L. W. Emmet, Christopher Engel, Irving M. Ernst, Albert E. Erpf, Armand G. Evans, Roger F. Eveleth, George S., Jr. Ewing, Sherman Ewing, William, Jr. Exter, John Fahs, Charles B. Field, William Osgood, Jr. Fischer, John S. Fisher, Henry J. Fleck, G. Peter Fleischmann, Manly Florinsky, Michael T. Ford, Nevil Forkner, Claude E. Forrestal, Michael V. Fosdick, Raymond B. Fox, Joseph C. Fox, William T. R. Foye, Arthur B. Franklin, George S., Jr. Franklin, John M. Freedman, Emanuel R. French, John Freudenthal, David M. Friele, Berent Friendly, Henry J. Fry, Varian Fuerbringer, Otto Fuller, C. Dale Fuller, Robert G. Galantiere, Lewis Gallatin, James P. Gamble, Sidney D .
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

de esta caravana de
He carried in his brown hand a large letter, on which was written in great type; " Al Señor dominante de esta caravana de gente ."
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

doctor exidio canonigo de
Entiendese que toda la mayor parte del daño que se a hallado en sevilla rresulto de algunos companeros y debotos del doctor exidio canonigo de la magistral de aquella iglesia ya defunto que fue admitido el año de cinquenta y tres a abjuracion de muchos herrores que tuvo cerca de estas materias aunque segund se sospecha
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

Desmolins Edmond cited Dickson
D Dante, quotation from Darwin, Charles, Animals and Plants by quoted on dormice Dates, eating preserved Denarius , value of the Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by, quoted De re rustica , Cato's Desmolins, Edmond, cited Dickson, Andrew, quoted cited Diophanes of Bithynia Disease in cattle, and remedies Dislocations of bones, remedy for Dogs, watch herd Donaldson's Agricultural Biography , quoted Dondlinger, Book of Wheat by, quoted Dormice, enclosures for, feeding, etc.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

descubrimento e conquista da
Historia do descubrimento e conquista da India pe los Portugueses .
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

discerning ear could distinguish
And throughout all his devout re-affirmation of all the spoken and written appeals to which his patriotic mind gave studied form and utterance in that intense decade, a discerning ear could distinguish in every paragraph profound and penetrating attestations, such as these:—This is a mighty Nation.
— from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee

dreamy eyes came down
Elsie's dreamy eyes came down on her suddenly.
— from The Story Book Girls by Christina Gowans Whyte


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