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de una centena ensayos
Cuentos (más de una centena), ensayos psicó-sociológicos, artículos y novelas.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

des usagers clients et
Convaincre les décideurs socio-économiques de prendre en compte les besoins spécifiques des usagers, clients et citoyens déficients visuels.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

drove up calling each
When Charles and Aunt Juley drove up, calling each other names, Mrs. Wilcox stepped in from the garden and made everything less terrible.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Dígame usted cómo está
Dígame usted, ¿cómo está mi señora tía?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

de una canción el
De pronto hirieron su oído rumores extraños, como cuchicheo 20 de femeniles labios, y después el chirrido de cortinajes que se corrían, algunas palabras, y por fin el tararear suave de una canción, el ladrido de un falderillo, y otras señales de existencia social que parecían muy singulares en tal sitio.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

detachment under Captain Eyre
The Nabob's troops soon deserted both fort and town, and the fort was occupied, before Clive could reach it, by a detachment under Captain Eyre Coote of the Thirty-ninth Foot, who had sailed from England with two companies of his regiment in the previous November.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

deep unbuttoned collar Ennis
How characterless they looked: Shuley without his deep unbuttoned collar, Ennis without his scarlet belt with the snaky clasp, and Connolly without his Norfolk coat with the flapless sidepockets!
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

dawned upon Christian Europe
Great care was given to bathing and personal cleanliness at a time when such a thought had not dawned upon Christian Europe.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

dear unselfish child Elsie
"Do not fear that I will betray you, poor, dear, unselfish child," Elsie said; "but I must protect you somehow.
— from Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley

disappears under closer examination
Immobility is only apparent and relative, and disappears under closer examination.
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

depending upon circumstantial evidence
This is not only an hypothesis depending upon circumstantial evidence, but it is professedly a deduction from a great range of facts and from a very complex state of facts.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

duty upon certain evil
"And first for that discord, variance, and debate which, in the preface of the said supplication they do allege to have risen among your Grace's subjects, spiritual and temporal, occasioned, as they say, by the uncharitable behaviour and demeanour of divers ordinaries: to this we, the ordinaries, answer, assuring your Majesty that in our hearts there is no such discord or variance ort our part against our brethren in God and ghostly children your subjects, as is induced in this preface; but our daily prayer is and shall be that all peace and concord may increase among your Grace's true subjects our said children, whom God be our witness we love, have loved, and shall love ever with hearty affection; never intending any hurt ne harm towards any of them in soul or body; ne have we ever enterprised anything against them of trouble, vexation, or displeasure; but only have, with all charity, exercised the spiritual jurisdiction of the Church, as we are bound of duty, upon certain evil-disposed persons infected with the pestilent poison of heresy.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude


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