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for danger and

We were in earnest, and paused not for danger and difficulty, but dashed through Snake-Creek Gap and fell on Resaca; then on to the Etowah, to Dallas, Kenesaw; and the heats of summer found us on the banks of the Chattahoochee, far from home, and dependent on a single road for supplies.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

for Ditton after

As for Ditton, after all his courting, and his compliment, he stole away an Irishman’s bride, and took a French leave of me and his master; but I vally not his going a farting; but I have had hanger on his account—Mistriss scoulded like mad; thof I have the comfit that all the family took my part, and even Mr Clinker pleaded for me on his bended knee; thof, God he knows, he had raisins enuff to complain; but he’s a good sole, abounding with Christian meekness, and one day will meet with his reward.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

foreign designs and

The whole extent of the walls was of polished bricks of uniform colour; while below, the white marble on the terrace and steps was engraved with western foreign designs; and when he came to look to the right and to the left, everything was white as snow.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

few days and

It at least may be affirmed that he had travelled from New York to Albany expressly to see her; having learned in the former city, where he was spending a few days and where he had hoped to find her, that she was still at the State capital.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

falsi dicere audeat

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non 15 audeat —Let him not dare to say anything that is false, nor let him dare to say what is not true.
— 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.

forces denote accompaniment

A few indefinite designations of military forces denote accompaniment by the ablative alone, or oftener with cum : as, ( a. ) ad castra Caesaris omnibus cōpiīs contendērunt , 2, 7, 3, they marched upon Caesar’s camp with all their forces .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

fourth day after

The Romans of the capital by some vague report heard of the victory of Paulus on the fourth day after the battle, but they placed no sure confidence in it.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

fluency Didad a

an impending Dibynog, a. appendant Dibynol, a. impending Dibynu, v. to hang, to depend Dibynydd, n. dependent Dicen, n. a hen, female bird Dichell, n. trick Dichellgar, a. wily, crafty Dichelliad, n. a devising Dichellu, v. to use craft Dichellus, a. crafty, inventive Dichlyn, a. assidious Dichlynder, n. assiduity Dichlynedd, n. assiduity Dichlynu, v. to act assiduously Dichon, v. to be able Dichoni, v. to be effectual Dichoniad, n. effectuation Dichwant, a. without desire Dichwerw, a. not bitter Dichwith, a. not awkward Dichwyn, a. without weeds Did, n. a teat; fluency Didad, a. fatherless Didaen, a. without expansion Didaer, a. not importunate Didal, a. without pay, unpaid Didalch, a. unfractured Didalm,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

found discharging a

If hero be taken to mean genuine, then I say the Hero as Man of Letters will be found discharging a function for us which is ever honorable, ever the highest; and was once well known to be the highest.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

few days after

A few days after Evelyn went to town, Dick, coming back from shooting one afternoon, met Tom Shanks on the marsh.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

find Don and

The major assured him that all steps had been taken to find Don and told him to keep up his good spirits.”
— from The Mercer Boys at Woodcrest by Capwell Wyckoff

Frina danced as

He had earned the reputation in many a London ball-room, and the Countess Frina danced as few English women can, with the soul of the music in her feet.
— from Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner

from doing anything

And I think when a girl is so young as Miss Brooke is, her friends ought to interfere a little to hinder her from doing anything foolish.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

fear distrust and

In his glance there is fear, distrust, and, above and beyond all, a malignant and undying hatred—such a hatred as might project itself from the eyes of the traitor upon his victim.
— from Portia; Or, By Passions Rocked by Duchess

figure discovered at

This theory was simply that the figure discovered at Cardiff was a Phenicia
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

Fred demanded and

Fred demanded, and he laughed at Gloria Vanderman with an air of triumph.
— from The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy

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