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dormir i sleep be asleep r
dormir i sleep, be asleep; r go to sleep; —do asleep, sleeping.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

declared it should be a ruinous
Isaiah declared it should be a "ruinous heap."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

delight in soft beds and rich
We must not always delight in soft beds and rich food.'
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

developments I shall be always ready
If there are any pressing fresh developments, I shall be always ready to run down and see you in your Norfolk home.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

dearie I shall be all right
"If you will write to me often, dearie, I shall be all right.
— from Winding Paths by Gertrude Page

days I shall be all right
In a few days I shall be all right."
— from The Measure of a Man by Amelia E. Barr

doors is surmounted by a relief
Each of the three doors is surmounted by a relief, that over the Pardon representing the Virgin presenting the chasuble to Saint Ildefonso, who is kneeling at her feet.
— from Cathedrals of Spain by John A. (John Allyne) Gade

daresay I shall be all right
"I daresay I shall be all right, my dear," Mrs. Henchman replied, a little grudgingly.
— from The Girls of St. Olave's by Mabel Mackintosh

dreamed it said Benny almost ready
“I—I dreamed it,” said Benny, almost ready to cry for shame and disappointment.
— from Who Was Paul Grayson? by John Habberton

drawing its salary but actually refusing
Cigarette smoking produces a flabby and endogenous condition of the optic nerve, and constant listening at a telephone, always with the same ear, decreases the power of the other ear till it finally just stands around drawing its salary, but actually refusing to hear anything.
— from A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories by Bill Nye

Dilly I shall be a rich
Why, Dilly, I shall be a rich man.
— from The Mimic Stage A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals by George M. (George Melville) Baker

delay in serving breakfast and Roger
There had been delay in serving breakfast, and Roger, anxious to catch a train, had been impatient.
— from Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

days it shall be a rebuke
[Pg 257] “All honor to Jefferson,—the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times , and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression!”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner


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