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dum evagari virgines
De virginali habitu: dum ornari cultius, dum evagari virgines volunt, desinunt esse virgines.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

dijo el viejo
(dijo el viejo, sentándose a mi lado):
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

duces ex virtute
Note 49 ( return ) [ Reges ex nobilitate, duces ex virtute sumunt.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Dobschütz E v
(4) Dobschütz, E. v. Die urchristlichen Gemeinden.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

distant Emminster Vicarage
Knowing that, how could she write entreaties to him, or show that she cared for him any more? XLIV By the disclosure in the barn her thoughts were led anew in the direction which they had taken more than once of late—to the distant Emminster Vicarage.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

dignified exploits vast
The earth, late wide circus for the display of dignified exploits, vast theatre for a magnificent drama, now presented a vacant space, an empty stage—for actor or spectator there was no longer aught to say or hear.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

distinct emphatic voice
Thus calling him back as I went out of the door, I heard her say to Joe in a distinct emphatic voice, “The boy has been a good boy here, and that is his reward.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

der Entwicklungsgesetze von
Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mythus, und Sitte.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

den Einfluss van
Schultz-Schultzenstein, C. Versuche über den Einfluss van Caffee- und Thee-Abkochungen auf künstliche Verdauung.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

destroyed every vestige
So, with the same calm deliberation that I cooked my breakfast, I destroyed every vestige of my correspondence; and, one night went to the river to seek relief.
— from From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Alexander Irvine

dévorante Et verse
brûlante Où le char du soleil, au zénith arrêté, Suspend sa course dévorante, Et verse des torrents de flamme et de clarté.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

did extend vnto
etermine, bicause mine informations are not so fullie set downe, as the promises of some on the one side, & mine expectation on the other did extend vnto.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

Dobschütz E von
Dobschütz, E. von, 333 .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

discarded every vestige
30 Equally bad, if not worse, for the cause of Haskalah was the conduct of those who, disdaining, or unable, to profess the new religion, discarded every vestige of traditional Judaism, and deemed it their duty to set an example of infidelity and sometimes immorality to their less enlightened coreligionists.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

dolor et vigilia
But in De Rerum Subtilitate , p. 375, he records his grief at her death:—"Itaque cum a luctu dolor et vigilia invadere soleant, ut mihi anno vertente in morte uxoris Luciæ Bandarenæ quanquam institutis philosophiæ munitus essem, repugnante tamen natura, memorque vinculi cōjugalis, suspiriis ac lachrymis et inedia quinque dierum, a periculo me vindicavi." CHAPTER V At this point it may not be inopportune to make a break in the record of Cardan's life and work, and to treat in retrospect of that portion of his time which he spent in the composition of his treatises on Arithmetic and Algebra.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

debates Elliot V
[16] See Mr. Madison's views, as stated in his debates, Elliot, V. 161.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

doubtless equally visible
The frankness of sexual freedom in Australia and the tolerance in regard to it were conspicuous thirty years ago to those who came from England to live in the Southern continent, and were doubtless equally visible at an earlier date.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

Dutch Emblems Vaughan
There were Quarles, with his Dutch Emblems ; Vaughan, Sandys, Crashaw, and pure-souled George Herbert, with his Temple .
— from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer


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