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d eirêmenôn chymôn esti tis

tôn d' eirêmenôn chymôn esti tis chreia tê physei kai tou pacheos kai tou leptou kai kathairetai pros te tou splênos kai tês epi tô hêpati kysteôs to haima kai apotithetai tosouton te kai toiouton hekaterou meros, hoson kai hoion, eiper eis Pg 214 Greek text holon ênechthê tou zôou to sôma, blabên an tin' eirgasato.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

drift exclaimed Charlie examining the

"It's a drift," exclaimed Charlie, examining the slender line of trees as they pushed their horses on.
— from The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series by Elliott Whitney

did every century explained the

The thickness of the crust of ice and of the layer of earth at the point of junction increasing, as it probably did, every century, explained the long resistance of the isthmus, which nothing but some extraordinary convulsion could have overcome.
— from The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude by Jules Verne

doin eighteen cents er twenty

What did the Trust's buyer promise you this year, ef you'd stand ag'in the Equity, and keek hit all you could as you've been a doin',— eighteen cents, er twenty ?' "'Exercise more jedgement in disposin' of your crop, ef you want to git my prices,' the fat man let out, mighty impudent, 'I'm a man of jedgement!'
— from The Tobacco Tiller: A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

dux et comes es tu

The same phrase at Tr III vii 18 (to his stepdaughter Perilla) 'utque pater natae duxque comesque fui' and Tr IV x 119-20 (to his Muse) 'tu dux et comes es, tu nos abducis ab Histro, / in medioque mihi das Helicone locum'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

do ee come ere To

"Then why do 'ee come 'ere?" "To learn."
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

dear Eastern Counties every time

Do you know, I drink the health of that dear Eastern Counties every time I am lucky enough to get an Awful Accident out of it.
— from The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 (of 2) An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

dull even cold expression to

black, very black, but by no means lustrous; they reminded me of unpolished marble, or rather of velvet, and this gave a strange, dull, even cold expression to her countenance.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

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