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Dang omali in the

↑ 164 Homali hamali looks like a corruption of S’ri Dang omala , S’ri Dang omali in the Rice-charms ( q.v. )
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

depend on it to

"I think master had best not depend on it to any great extent!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

dying out in the

The fire was dying out in the big fireplace.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

doing of it that

This morning Captain Allen tells me how the famous Ned Mullins, by a slight fall, broke his leg at the ancle, which festered; and he had his leg cut off on Saturday, but so ill done, notwithstanding all the great chyrurgeons about the town at the doing of it, that they fear he will not live with it, which is very strange, besides the torment he was put to with it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

doubled on its tracks

There are many furrows in the sand where some creature has travelled about and doubled on its tracks; and, for wrecks, it is strewn with the cases of caddis-worms made of minute grains of white quartz.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

disdainful of it There

"O thou, who in the valley fortunate, Which Scipio the heir of glory made, When Hannibal turned back with all his hosts, Once brought'st a thousand lions for thy prey, And who, hadst thou been at the mighty war Among thy brothers, some it seems still think The sons of Earth the victory would have gained: Place us below, nor be disdainful of it, There where the cold doth lock Cocytus up.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

daytime or in the

The policemen of a city, wherever stationed in the daytime or in the night time, are there to protect the lives and property of individuals, at street crossings, at public buildings, at theatres, in the parks, and on playgrounds; and it is the privilege as well as the duty of all citizens to help them in every way possible to do their work well.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

declared outlaw in the

I took the annuity, and was declared outlaw in the course of next week.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

dorsal one in the

There is a ventral thickening ( fig. 165 B, v.g ) in the anterior region of the trunk, and a dorsal one in the head.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

degree of interest that

After a while the crew of the Catamaran watched the manoeuvres of the sword-fish with a degree of interest that almost caused them to forget their own forlorn situation.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

duke of Irelands trunks

Letters foūd in the duke of Irelands trunks.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

dwell on ideas that

It will madden me to recollect the past; and I am wrong—oh, very wrong—thus to dwell on ideas that sadden and depress instead of raising and invigorating my enfeebled mind.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

differ only in the

They differ only in the degree of insecurity.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

differing only in the

He found his solution by peopling the world with invisible forces, anthropomorphic in their conception, like himself in their thought and action, differing only in the limitations of their powers.
— from A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

Depend on it the

Depend on it, the chase will be hard after Ravenswood.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

dark olive is the

The dark olive is the result of strange cosmetics, and a jolly fine result, too.
— from Lilian by Arnold Bennett

danger of it though

Thus, in spite of all that is said in favor of the occasional lie, we instinctively feel the danger of it, though we may not be able, until after much consideration, [Pg 447] to assign the exact reason for our feeling.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

drags on in this

It is a great bore that it drags on in this way, creating alarm and uncertainty, shaking the funds, and affecting commerce.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860 by Charles Greville

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