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du es erwerben Musst du
Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben —To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

de ella en medio de
IV SCENE IV (El llorón y las flores de la izquierda del sepulcro de doña Inés se cambian en una apariencia, dejando ver dentro de ella, en medio de resplandores, la sombra de doña Inés.)
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

divisar el eje misterioso de
Y en aquella región de continuo espanto creo divisar el eje misterioso de la Tierra....
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

destreza en el manejo del
, sobre todas las cosas, las fuerzas físicas, la destreza en el manejo del caballo y, además, el valor.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

dy eu e mon drwä
Dieu et Mon Droit (dy eu e mon ˙ drwä; 'God and my right'), the battle-cry of Richard I at the battle of Gisors (1198), signifying that he was not subject to France, but owed his power to God alone.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

del Estado el mantenimiento de
y buen manejo estriba la subsistencia del Estado, el mantenimiento de su credito, el porvenir de su engrandecimiento, y la conservacion del órden publico. '
— from Peru in the Guano Age Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with Some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced and the Uses to Which It Has Been Applied by A. J. (Alexander James) Duffield

distinctius esset ejus medietatem dumtaxat
Ut hoc schema grandius ac distinctius esset, ejus medietatem dumtaxat suscepi delineandam.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

dynasty ended even more disastrously
The nineteenth dynasty ended even more disastrously than the eighteenth.
— from Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

DASHWOOD EDMEE ELIZABETH MONICA DE
DASHWOOD, EDMEE ELIZABETH MONICA DE LA PASTURE.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

distended eyes eyes made doubly
"I saw it all," she said, looking at him with large distended eyes, eyes made doubly large by the hollows round them.
— from The Silent Shore: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton


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