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de esta república era cerca
La población de esta república era cerca de 3,550,000 de habitantes en 1913.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

donzellas el rindo e cheo
There is in the antiquated diction a degree of precision which approximates to the style of the original:— Vinha Amor por o campo trebelhando com sà fremosa Madre, e sàs donzellas; el rindo, e cheo de lédice entre ellas, ja de arco, e de sas setas nom curando.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

destruxit et restoravit eam cum
destruxit ... et restoravit eam cum nov ... multipart ...
— from The Gate of Remembrance The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury by Frederick Bligh Bond

diamonds emeralds rubies every costly
A windlass slowly removes the front of the altar; and, within it, in a gorgeous shrine of gold and silver, is seen, through alabaster, the shrivelled mummy of a man: the pontifical robes with which it is adorned, radiant with diamonds, emeralds, rubies: every costly and magnificent gem.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

Dominos erigeret reverentiam Eoi culminis
[718] 'Et singularis illa potentia, ut Italicos Dominos , erigeret, reverentiam Eoi culminis ordinavit.'
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

Dantique et Roboesque En comprenant
One of the pattern-books gives on its title-page— "Dantique et Roboesque En comprenant aussi Moresque."
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.


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