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effect did Eric lighten Manna
With such words, and more to the same effect, did Eric lighten Manna's perplexities: she embraced and thanked him for thus entering into her very soul, and freeing her from every yoke.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

elles devant elles les mêmes
Sans nul doute, trouveront elles devant elles les mêmes difficultés qu'ici et
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

et deductiones effusis lacrymis modum
Demum vero dictus Bernardus post multas exhortaciones, inductiones et deductiones, effusis lacrymis, modum et seriem totius tractatus et machinationis predicte, falsitatis et cedule fabricationis et consentie in eis, corde gemebundo, detexit ac confessus fuit, quod, licet a principio dixisset se credere contenta in ipsa cedula fore vera, prout ab ipsis Joanne Maurendi, Guillelmo Masconis, et Imberto predictis se audivisse asseruerat, finaliter tamen bene perpendit ex dictis predictorum et ex circumstanciis in dicto tractatu habitis, et firmiter credidit quod predicta omnia in ipsa cedula contenta prout contra dictum Raimundum Berseti proposita erant non essent vera sed falsa et
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

eager devouring eye led me
His faltering gait, and eager devouring eye, led me to watch him, and he had not proceeded ten steps before he fell.
— from A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

Espeio Divino en Lengua Mexicana
Mijangos (Joan), Espeio Divino en Lengua Mexicana.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft


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