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feed elevator discharge chutes
[Pg 384] Green-coffee-milling machine having a capacity of forty bags of green coffee per hour; with sifter, feed-pipe suction, and a final separate suction at the discharge hopper Green-coffee separator without fan; with feed elevator, discharge chutes, and motor drive.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

for eight days could
After some time the boy became ill, and for eight days could not leave his bed; but as soon as he could get up again, the first thing he did was to take his food to Our Lady.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

for every day came
Now when the king who at that time ruled in Raumarike heard of this, he thought it was a very bad affair; for every day came men to him, both great and small, who told him what was doing.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

functus est deinde C
P. Crassus cum cognomine dives, tum copiis functus est aedilicio maximo munere, et paulo post L. Crassus cum omnium hominum moderatissimo Q. Mucio magnificentissima aedilitate functus est, deinde C. Claudius App.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

fango e disse Chi
Mentre noi corravam la morta gora, dinanzi mi si fece un pien di fango, e disse: <<Chi se' tu che vieni anzi ora?>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

for each distinct combination
r minds but so many combinations of units, which have no variety, nor are capable of any other difference but more or less, names or marks for each distinct combination seem more necessary than in any other sort of ideas.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

from every discerning craftsman
In Florence, next, opposite to the left-hand door of the Church of S. Spirito, on the corner where to-day there is a butcher, he painted a shrine which, by reason of the softness of the heads and of the sweetness that is seen in it, deserves the highest praise from every discerning craftsman.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

for example De Carteret
There never appears to have been any Visitation, and the arms of Channel Island families which officially pass muster must be confined to those of the very few families (for example, De Carteret, Dobrée, and Tupper) who have found it necessary or advisable on their own initiative to register their arms in the official English sources.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

f earthly desire CP
woruldwilnung f. earthly desire , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

flat earthen dish covered
There are two methods: either by pounding minium and vinegar in a brass mortar with a brass pestle, or else by putting minium into a flat earthen dish covered with a lid, well luted with potter's clay.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

from every dark corner
He's the very salt of the earth!' murmured the old captain, as he threaded his way later through the unsavoury streets, now ablaze with lights that enticed and beckoned forth misery to stalk out from every dark corner.
— from The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by M. B. Manwell

four endogamous divisions called
There are among them four endogamous divisions called Kavitiyan, Manipparayan, Meluttan, and Chattaparayan, of which the two first are the most important.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

flooded every dark corner
But how to get there, how to stir in that garish, lavish day, which flooded every dark corner with light, so that the water-newts and earth insects had much ado to get themselves into some covert place, and how was he to walk unseen, a man?
— from A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

From every darkling copse
The ghosts which rose From every darkling copse showed thin and pale— Thinner and paler far than those I left In agony; even as Pity seems to wear A thinner form than Fear.
— from The Epic of Hades, in Three Books by Lewis Morris

for each different class
There was a special god for each different class—even the most menial and the most immoral; and a special divinity for those who were afflicted in a peculiar manner, such as the childless, the maimed or the blind.
— from The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 2 (of 2) The Roman Trial by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler

full eruption during Capt
The volcano of Tanna was in full eruption during Capt. Cook's Voyage of Discovery in 1774, as was also the volcano of Ambrym, west of Malicollo in the archipelago of the New Hebrides.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

from each dark clump
To scour the neighborhood of the rapid stream with light troops would have been impossible, owing to the thick underwood every where arresting the human foot; and yet, from each dark clump of cedars, or from behind each projecting crag on the rugged banks, he might at any moment expect to see the deadly flash of the Canadian musket, and to hear the war-whoop of the savage.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

French entrenchments drew closer
The American and French entrenchments drew closer and closer to the British lines until they were only three hundred yards apart.
— from Lafayette, We Come! The Story of How a Young Frenchman Fought for Liberty in America and How America Now Fights for Liberty in France by Rupert Sargent Holland


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