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doth endure Vicissitude and season
I SCARCE beleeve my love to be so pure As I had thought it was, Because it doth endure Vicissitude, and season, as the grasse; 5 Me thinkes I lyed all winter, when I swore, My love was infinite, if spring make'it more.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

de Elgueta Vigil Appointed secretary
2352.30 588.8 Antonio de Elgueta Vigil (Appointed secretary in 1717; in 1732 made receiver with salary of—. Is also jubilated secretary without salary) 5955.30 588.8 Francisco de Guzman (Appointed secretary in 1699, jubilated in 1716 with salary of) 2944 Antonio Villafranca, Secretary (Appointed in 1744) 2352.30 588.8 Joseph Fernández de Lima, Abogado del Fisco 294.4 Diego Fernández de Zengano, Secretary (Serving in Logroño by order of Suprema) 2352.30 588.8 Antonio de Arnuero, Secretary (Serving in Corte by order of Suprema)
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

duo extra vrbem ad septentrionem
Cygnus nominata: Alia duo extra vrbem ad septentrionem sunt, via qua itur per Episcopalem portam vulgariter Biscopgat nuncupatam.
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

dissent exceedingly vexed at such
The former vacillated between aggression and hesitating aloofness toward this uncomfortable element of dissent, exceedingly vexed at such persistent survival and vigorous increase, and yet recognizing its most promising contribution to the strength of the realm.
— from William Bradford of Plymouth by Albert Hale Plumb

diet exercise ventilation and such
At the same time the reader must be cautioned against placing any reliance on external applications, unless he assists their action by due attention to diet, exercise, ventilation, and such other matters as tend to promote the general health and vigour of the body.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

dark eyes very anxiously searching
She passed only a few steps across the threshold, and stood there, a timid, hesitating figure, her dark eyes very anxiously searching the features of the man who had risen from his seat to greet her.
— from The Governors by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

double effect viz a subtraction
Moreover, for every increase of carbonic acid there is a corresponding decrease in oxygen, so that we have in such cases a double effect, viz., a subtraction of the life-giving principle of the air, and the addition of noxious substitutes.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, December 1882 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle by Chautauqua Institution

durst encounter vs and so
Vpon the foure and twentieth of Nouember, the Generall accompanied vvith the Lieutenant generall and sixe hundred men, marched foorth to a village tvvelue miles vvithin the lande, called S. Domingo , vvhere the Gouernor and the Bishop vvith all the better sort vvere lodged, and by eight of the clocke vve came to it, finding the place abandoned, and the people fled into the 12 mountaines: so vve made stand a vvhile to ease ourselues, and partly to see if any vvould come to speake to vs. After vve had vvell rested our selues, the Generall commaunded the troupes to march away homewardes, in vvhich retreat the enemie shewed them selues, both horse and foote, though not such force as durst encounter vs: and so in passing some time at the gase vvith them, it vvaxed late and towards night, before vve could recouer home to Saint Iago .
— from A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine. by Walter Bigges

das englische Vorbild a school
A. Mager published, 1890, at Marburg, “Wieland’s Nachlass des Diogenes von Sinope und das englische Vorbild,” a school “Abhandlung,” which dealt with a connection between this work of Wieland and Sterne.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

die Einwohnerschaft von Athen sich
the "Bericht eines aus Athen gefluechteten" (General Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, No. 841/44): "Man muss gestehen, dass die Einwohnerschaft von Athen sich menschlicher betragen haben als diejenige aus Saloniki.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek


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