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decoy sham purchaser c At

Button , a decoy, sham purchaser, &c. At any mock or sham auction seedy specimens may be seen.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

districts some print chintz and

The nickname appears to have been applied to them because in the northern districts some print chintz, and, carrying their goods in a bundle on their backs, walk stooping [ 199 ] like a laden washerman.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

districts some print chintzes and

The nickname appears to have been applied to them, because, in the northern districts, some print chintzes, and, carrying their goods in a bundle on their backs, walk stooping like a laden washerman.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

days supply per corps and

Of this we started from Atlanta, with from eight to twenty days' supply per corps and some of the troops only had one day's issue of bread during the trip of thirty days; yet they did not want, for sweet-potatoes were very abundant, as well as corn-meal, and our soldiers took to them naturally.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

dessert strawberries plums cherries and

I cut up the fowl, put the slices of ham neatly on a piece of paper, and then carefully laid out our dessert, strawberries, plums, cherries and cakes, close to the girl.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

dark shadows perpetually changing across

; the leaves are trefoiled, and the stalks cut clear so that they might be grasped with the hand, and cast sharp dark shadows, perpetually changing, across the bell of the capital behind them.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

dans ses passions cedant a

He is exactly the character which I have somewhere seen described by a French poet.—A young man who, —— 'leger, impetueux, De soi meme rempli, jaloux, presomptueux, Bouillant dans ses passions; cedant a ses caprices; Pour un peu de valeur, se passoit de tous ses vices. '
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith

delinquent still prove contumacious and

And yet should the delinquent still prove contumacious and refuse to pay, the matter rests there—there is no punishment for his offence.
— from Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William H. (William Henry) Gilder

dilution see Physical Chemistry and

Among other methods by which the value of i is now determined for dilute solutions is the study of their electroconductivity, admitting that i = 1 + a ( k - 1), where a = the ratio of the molecular conductivity to the limiting conductivity corresponding to an infinitely large dilution ( see Physical Chemistry), and k is the number of ions into which the substance dissolved can split up.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

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