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do even philosophers call
do even philosophers call names?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

delitable et plus commune
raisons: l'une, car nos somes en France; et l'autre porce que la parleure est plus delitable et plus commune
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

deceit Encountered punishment complete
Yet sometimes this or that deceit Encountered punishment complete,
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

declared every professed critic
But even this democratic and individual age may profit by turning back for a time to consider some of the general truths, as valid to-day as ever, to which Pope gave such inimitable expression, or to study the outlines of that noble picture of the true critic which St. Beuve declared every professed critic should frame and hang up in his study.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

dropping empty papers carefully
Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand, on the first of April; which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April Fool.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

during exile patients coming
Taught school and conducted a hospital during exile, patients coming from China coast ports for treatment.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

de estudiarse porque cada
Es una de esas fisonomías dignas de estudiarse, porque cada uno de sus rasgos revela
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

de expatriación p109 Compadre
[108-8] en estos quince años de expatriación.... (p109) —¡Compadre!—replicó el tío Hormiga—es usted un sabio, y celebraré que le salgan bien todos sus planes.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

decisive entscheidender Punkt crucial
Bank the bank to which the operation is entschädigen indemnify entschädigen; schadlos halten to indemnify Entschädigung indemnification Entschädigung indemnity Entschädigung bei Grundstücksenteignung just compensation Entschädigungsanspruch claim for compensation Entschädigungsanspruch claim for indemnity Entschädigungsanspruch right of damages Entschädigungsbetrag indemnity sum Entschädigungssumme amount of indemnification Entscheiden; Fällen von Entscheidungen decision making entscheidend decisive entscheidender Punkt crucial point entscheidet sich die Dokumente abzulehnen decides to refuse the documents entscheidet sich die Dokumente aufzunehmen decides to take up the documents Entscheidung decision Entscheidung der Unternehmensleitung management decision Entscheidungsfindung decision making Entscheidungstheorie decision theory entschlüsseln decipher entschlüsseln decode entschlüsseln decypher entschuldigen uns für die Unannehmlichkeiten we apologize for the trouble caused entschuldigte Fehlzeit authorized absence Entschuldigung apology Entschuldigungsschreiben letter of apology
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

DUTTON E P CO
DUTTON (E. P.) & CO., INC. Inside Germany.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

dinnerthe evening prayer cuts
Nor is it customary, in these lands, to sit together after dinnerthe evening prayer cuts short the seance.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

DUTTON E P CO
DUTTON (E. P.) & CO., INC. Horse in the moon.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1959 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

despicable eminence promissory curriculum
aniline dilatory obituary imbecile guerilla cemetery business auxiliary sanguine solstice secretary projectile supersede recurrence ingenious despicable eminence promissory curriculum apothecary embarrass treachery
— from The Alberta Public School Speller Authorized by the Minister of Education for Alberta by Anonymous

detached episodic poems c
We have examined the legend ( a ) in the form of a loosely constructed biographical romance, composed of episodes originally foreign to each other; ( b ) in detached episodic poems; ( c ) in its final form as the most important member of a great prose cycle; and we have found that in all this mass of literature the only really distinctive and individual trait on which we could lay our finger was the story of the hero being stolen as a child and brought up by the mistress of a water kingdom.
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

décemment et plus comfortablement
Toujours serez vous ainsi, à ce que j'espère, plus décemment et plus comfortablement, que vous ne seriez par tout ailleurs au même prix.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

dewy eve policing camp
He kept all hands busy from early morn till dewy eve, policing camp when not engaged in drill.
— from A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. by George Little

Dei et porta celi
Vere aliud non est hic nisi domus Dei et porta celi" ("Hail, Mary, full of grace!
— from A Book of Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

divise en plusieurs canaux
Elle est traversée d'une rivière qui s'y divise en plusieurs canaux, et fermée dans son enceinte seulement de belles murailles; car les faubourgs sont plus grands que la ville.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

direct European political control
For example, the exclusion of direct European political control from the Isthmus of Panama is as really a matter of national defence as is the protection of New York Harbor.
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan


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