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degree of y e Nobilitie
It is recited that "some persons under y e degree of y e Nobilitie of this Realme doe cause Ermins to be Depicted upon ye Lineings of those Mantles which are used with their Armes, and also that there are some that have lately caused the Mantles of their Armes to be painted like Ostrich feathers as tho' they were of some peculiar and superior degree of Honor," and the warrant commands that these points are to be rectified.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

danger of your escaping now
"There is no danger of your escaping now," said the young Mexican.
— from The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

dreamed of you every night
Since that time I have dreamed of you every night.
— from The Devil's Pool by George Sand

dream of you every night
I dream of you every night.
— from Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline: A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.

desire of your evil nature
Each worldly friend, each desire of your evil nature, each temptation to sin, each longing after wealth, each sinful suggestion, gives you a pull, and a pull the wrong way, away from safety, away from Christ, away from God, away from heaven, away from Home.
— from Christie, the King's Servant A Sequel to "Christie's Old Organ" by Walton, O. F., Mrs.

depend on you even now
It's hard for a woman to live all alone—it's almost a thing impossible—she's so lonesome—sometimes I almost think I could depend on you, even now."
— from The Broken Gate: A Novel by Emerson Hough

disease one year extraordinary nervous
But it is now becoming more extensively apparent that the same cause is productive of very different effects on different persons, and on the same persons at different times; as in the case mentioned by Dr. Arnott of the school badly drained at Clarendon Square, Somers’ Town, where every year, while the nuisance was at its height, and until it was removed by drainage, the malaria caused some remarkable form of disease; one year, extraordinary nervous affection, exhibiting rigid spasms, and then convulsions of the limbs, such as occur on taking various poisons into the stomach; another year, typhoid fever; in another, ophthalmia; in another, extraordinary constipation of the bowels, affecting similar numbers of the pupils.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

dream of you every night
[Pg 137] I dream of you every night, and my heart longs for you, but I know it is best for your soul to be with the blessed Sisters.
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper

dreamt of you every night
"Oh, you dear old place, I have dreamt of you every night!"
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

dream of you every night
I dream of you every night in my lonesomeness!
— from Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest by Hulbert Footner


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