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errorem circa solas literas
quam etiam deficiens, iamque non * noster , ipsum illum alienatae mentis errorem circa solas literas habuit!
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

et connaissances sont le
Vous tirez un fil et le reste en découle tout naturellement… Ceci dit, mes "amis et connaissances" sont le point d'entrée.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

exception culturelle sur la
Je pense qu'il n y a pas de chance pour nous de faire prévaloir une quelconque exception culturelle sur la toile, ce qui serait de nature tout à fait grégaire.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

et circa saliunt latus
Aliena negotia centum / Per caput, et circa saliunt latus —A hundred affairs of other people leap through my head and at my side.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

explosive compound something like
Since the day his father died and we set the great Koltykwerp crown of crystal ice upon his cool brow, his temperature has never 163 risen but a half a degree, and that was only for a brief hour or so, and was occasioned by a mad proposal of one of his councillors, who claimed that he had discovered an explosive compound, something like the gunpowder of thy world, I fancy, by which he could shatter the glorious window of rock crystal set in the mountain dome of our under world and let in the warm sunshine.”
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

e cio sa l
E quella a me: <e cio` sa 'l tuo dottore.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

especiales como son los
En días especiales, como son los aniversarios patrióticos, se dan espectáculos extraordinarios o de gala.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

even commit some little
Occasionally a person must drink somewhat more liberally, engage in plays, and jests, or even commit some little sin from hatred and contempt of the devil, so as to leave him no room for raising scruples in our conscience about the most trifling matters.
— from Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau

er clavier sur le
2 Tirasse du 1 er clavier sur le pédalier.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale

ELBERT CHURCHILL SPENCER LADY
For works claimed by the Church of Light SEE BENJAMINE, ELBERT. CHURCHILL, SPENCER, LADY.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

early Christian social life
What a glimpse we get here into the very heart and centre of early Christian social life.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

every child should learn
It is entirely useless to multiply art schools, and desire that every child should learn to draw, when all the tendencies of modern life have become such that every rule of art is violated in it and every artistic sense offended in an ordinary daily walk.
— from Critical Studies by Ouida

E C Spence L
“H. Dempsey, J. Cronin, N. S. Woodward, W. J. Crosswell, C. A. Pardue, Mark J. O’Brien, W. A. Dewees, W. W. Allen, F. G. du Bignon, W. A. Blankenship, A. M. Richardson, H. E. Williamson, L. H. Black, J. L. S. Albright, L. Spaulding, A. Montgomery, J. B. Hockaday, G. C. Crom, F. de C. Sullivan, W. Buckner, W. E. McGill, G. A. Wilkinson, S. C. Hargis, G. W. Bacot, G. Sadler, C. C. {305} Wolfe, P. B. Wilkes, W. J. Brown, F. R. Osborne, O. M. Sadler, C. T. Campbell, V. Spalding, H. C. Fisher, M. F. Plant, F. J. Virgin, C. Pink, C. L. Loop, W. C. Agee, F. Q. Brown, J. C. Stuart, L. Minor, R. B. Smith, W. B. Menzies, John Lovette, E. J. Loughman, J. T. James, W. H. Hendee, S. R. Golibart, E. M. Williams, J. C. Barry, W. R. Twyman, E. C. Spence, L. Kuder, C. R. Smith, J. B. Gartrell, M. Culliny, A. Welsh, G. W. Agee, C. L. Myers, W. K. Haile, W. A. Mehegan, R. G. Erwin, C. H. Albright, W. M. Shoemaker, H. C. Mendenhall, G. H. Tilley, A. McD. Mullings, J. W. Gaines, T. W. Leary, C. G. McCormick, W. W. Hulbert, K. C. Barrett, M. F. Loughman, E. F. Gary, J. J. Crosswell, E. J. Michelin, T. T. Weltch, Thomas Grier, R. A. Buckner, H. M. Smith, M. J. O’Brien, W. S. McFarland, E. G. Williams.” MR.
— from The Life of Henry Bradley Plant Founder and President of the Plant System of Railroads and Steamships and Also of the Southern Express Company by G. Hutchinson (George Hutchinson) Smyth

Egyptian civilization says Le
“The most accurate scholars point to India as the origin of Egyptian civilization,” says Le Renouf, the learned Egyptologist.
— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook

eyes could see little
Brought up strictly, by Moreau’s advice, he seldom went to the theatre, and then to nothing better than the Ambigu-Comique, where his eyes could see little elegance, if indeed the eyes of a child riveted on a melodrama were likely to examine the audience.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

er comin she lit
Den, when Sis’ Cat heah Ned Dog er comin’, she lit out, ’caze she nuv’r want ’im
— from Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South by Sarah Johnson Cocke


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