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don instead a lot of

The “little Macks,” as General Funston calls the Maccabebes, were made to discard their dapper American uniforms after they got aboard the ship, and don instead a lot of nondescript clothing gathered by the military authorities at Manila before the Vicksburg sailed, so as to resemble the average insurgent command.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

dwelt in a land of

He had dwelt in a land of strange, squalling upheavals and had come forth.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

dressed in a long overcoat

A man entered, also wearing an astrakhan cap and dressed in a long overcoat.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

duty is a light one

Seeing that each Tribune has three maniples, and each maniple has a hundred men, without counting Triarii and Velites who are not liable for this service, the duty is a light one, coming round to each maniple only once in three days; while by this arrangement ample provision is made for the convenience as well as the dignity of the Tribuni.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

defence is at least of

If the game is not altogether lost, the defence is at least of the most difficult kind; indeed, I must confess that I can see no adequate defence against White's next move.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

dropped in accidentally later on

Gania and Ptitsin had dropped in accidentally later on; then came Keller, and he and Colia insisted on having champagne.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

decline is a lack of

One cause for our conversational decline is a lack of sympathy.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

drop in and let on

“It’s because it warn’t intended for any of us to come but Tom,” he says; “but I begged and begged, and at the last minute she let me come, too; so, coming down the river, me and Tom thought it would be a first-rate surprise for him to come here to the house first, and for me to by and by tag along and drop in, and let on to be a stranger.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

dwell in a land of

Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and graceful; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall D flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and 88 insensibly draw the soul from earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

dungeon incomunicado and later occupying

Rizal reached Manila on November 3 and was at once transferred to Fort Santiago, at first being held in a dungeon “incomunicado” and later occupying a small cell on the ground floor.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

death is a law of

" The only law of sickness or death is a law of mortal belief, and infringement on the merciful and just government of God.
— from The People's Idea of God: Its Effect On Health And Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy

departed in a Lily of

She departed in a "Lily of the Valley" scent and little fragments of purple fluff.
— from The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

drawn into a lawsuit on

I do not wish the Elder to be drawn into a lawsuit on my account.
— from Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland by Retta Babcock

daguerreotype in a large oval

On a center-table stood a photograph or daguerreotype in a large oval frame.
— from The Boarded-Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman

destruction in a less obtrusive

Even then, there was no market for the greater part of the recovered acid, consequently much of it found its way into drains and streams, and so carried on its work of destruction in a less obtrusive way.
— from Acids, Alkalis and Salts by George Henry Joseph Adlam

dissolved in a little oil

Melt the wax and spermaceti with the oil, and when they have cooled rub the ointment with the camphor, dissolved in a little oil.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

dullard ignorance and lack of

he said imperatively yet good-naturedly—"In everything ye showed your dullard ignorance and lack of discernment.
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

driven into a log of

He had a chain around one wrist, and the chain was fastened by a large staple driven into a log of the wall of the fort.
— from When Santiago Fell; or, The War Adventures of Two Chums by Edward Stratemeyer

done in at least one

This can be done by developing and maintaining upon an adequate scale the admirable organization created by the Department of Labor for placing men seeking work; and it can also be done, in at least one very great field, by creating new opportunities for individual enterprise.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

defects is a love of

The principal characteristic of this historian, the origin of his excellencies and his defects, is a love of singularity.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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