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frequentiam effudit vocem convenientissimam
Sed cum ultimum redderet spiritum, intuens circumstantium macrentiumque 20 frequentiam, effudit vocem convenientissimam conscientiae suae: ecquandone, inquit, propinqui amicique, similem mei civem habebit res publica?
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

fugae et vitae cepit
Unde aliquoties in altum provectum cum modo venti adversi retulissent, modo ipse iactationem navis caeco volvente fluctu pati non posset, taedium tandem eum et fugae et vitae cepit, regressusque ad superiorem villam, quae paulo 10 plus mille passibus a mari abest, ‘moriar,’ inquit, ‘in patria saepe servata.’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

feeling except veneration could
But even if one might, what feeling except veneration could such a man as my father evoke?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

f estimation valuation CP
± eahtung f. estimation, valuation , CP: deliberation, counsel .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

f earthen vessel crock
== tyge tigel , tigele f. earthen vessel, crock, pot, potsherd : ‘ tile ,’ brick , AO ; Mdf: slabs for roofing ,
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

f excess violence CM
swīðnes f. excess, violence , CM 458.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

fîlia Eurystheî vehementer cupiêbat
Hunc balteum possidêre fîlia Eurystheî vehementer cupiêbat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

facinus est vincīre cīvem
With verbs of perceiving, knowing, thinking, and saying, it denotes action as going on at the time of the verb: as, 396 ( a. ) facinus est vincīre cīvem Rōmānum , V. 5, 170, it is a crime to put a Roman in irons .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

foudre et votre corsage
Manuel était fier et sage, Paris s’asseyait à de saints banquets, Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage Avait une épingle où je me piquais.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

fell Each Vánar chief
Ranged round the spot where Ráma fell Each Vánar chief stood sentinel.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

four elected vice chairmen
The chairman and four elected vice chairmen form the Bureau of the Grand National Assembly and are assisted in their duties by a panel of six executive secretaries.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

Fortunately every village carpenter
Fortunately, every village carpenter can easily construct the machine.
— from The Wheel of Fortune by Mahatma Gandhi

For every village can
For every village can boast of a battle, and the rocky earth has run with the blood of almost every European nation, as well as that of Turk and Moor.
— from The Isle of Unrest by Henry Seton Merriman

fantastic Error vices crimes
But worse than these, I deem far worse, that other race of ills Which human kind rear up among themselves; That horrid offspring which misgovern'd Will 560 Bears to fantastic Error; vices, crimes, Furies that curse the earth, and make the blows, The heaviest blows, of Nature's innocent hand Seem sport: which are indeed but as the care Of a wise parent, who solicits good To all her house, though haply at the price Of tears and froward wailing and reproach From some unthinking child, whom not the less Its mother destines to be happy still.
— from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside by Mark Akenside

feast every Virgin Capon
"Delicate minced Pies, To feast every Virgin, Capon and Goose likewise, Brawn and a dish of Sturgeon. III.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

from each village consisted
The articles taken from each village consisted on this occasion generally of— Rs.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

from El Volcán Chiriquí
We have records of males calling in December through May and also in August (latter date from El Volcán, Chiriquí, Panamá).
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

for every volume concealed
They interested in their work the faithful Irish who still retained possession of a farm, or a cabin with a few acres of ground attached; the men, and women even, were to search the country round for every volume concealed or preserved, for every parchment and relic, for vellum manuscripts, even a stray solitary page, did one remain alone.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

frogs experienced violent contractions
When matters were thus arranged, every time that a third person touched the summit of the pile, both the frogs experienced violent contractions, and to such a degree, that, leaving free one of the extremities, a real electrico-animal alarum was obtained, perfectly similar in its effect and identity to that described by Galvani in his Commentary.
— from An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London by Giovanni Aldini


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