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de la Vega
1720 at a Court of Vice Admiralty held at St. Jago de la Vega in the Island of Jamaica .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Die Lehre vom
[152] C. J. A. Mittermaier: Die Lehre vom Beweise.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

de los veinticinco
—Me dicen que en Chile mi hijo no podría ser corredor antes de los veinticinco años.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

dope les ventes
L'internet dope les ventes de livres, comme celles des disques, quoiqu'en disent les éditeurs regroupés en association de défense de leurs intérêts.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

domestic life very
Though he succeeded in his great enterprise, the loose behavior of his wife rendered his domestic life very unhappy, and provoked him to such a degree, that he killed—her favorite greyhound.
— 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

des larmes voilà
Lorsque le corps est blessé, Siasconcet, il en découle du sang; quand le coeur est navré, il en découle des larmes: voilà ce que je dirai à tes vieillards; je verrai ce
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

de La vallée
JACQUES GAUCHEY [FR, EN] [FR] Jacques Gauchey (San Francisco) #Spécialiste en industrie des technologies de l'information, "facilitator" entre les Etats-Unis et l'Europe, journaliste Jacques Gauchey est l'auteur de La vallée du risque - Silicon Valley, paru fin 1990 chez Plon.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

dire la vérité
» Où se promenait-on?--Quel incident s'est produit?--Quelle réputation les Gascons ont-ils?--Celui-ci était-il comme tous les autres de son pays?--Quel moyen le Marseillais a-t-il trouvé de lui faire dire la vérité?
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

detestable little volume
However, now that everyone can read it, translated and with a wholly admirable preface by Professor J. H. Morgan , it is to be hoped that the detestable little volume will have a wide publicity.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 3, 1915 by Various

De la Vacca
NOT long after their arrival at Jamaica, being that short time they needed to lavish away all the riches above mentioned, they concluded on another enterprise to seek new fortunes: to this effect Captain Morgan ordered all the commanders of his ships to meet at De la Vacca, or the Cow Isle, south of Hispaniola, as is said.
— from The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin

du libraire vol
(Brunet, Manuel du libraire , vol.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

Donna Lucinda Valdez
You meant that Donna Lucinda Valdez has a personality markedly different from that possessed by Lady Dundrannan?”
— from Lucinda by Anthony Hope

de la Vega
Lasso de la Vega (Gabriel Lobo), 87 , 90 , 110 . Layamon, 26 .
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly


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