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fresh Liver Cabbage cooked
Vegetables and Fruits: Lean meat (beef, mutton, etc.) + Cabbage, fresh +++ Liver + Cabbage, cooked + Tinned meats 0 Cabbage, dried Very slight Beef juice + Swede,
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

for large Canes cauaghan
[a musical instrument] sub in for Disease of St. Job alupalan 372 Bring me palatin comorica for certain Rice cakes tinapai 373 Good main No tidale for Knife capol, sundan for Scissors catle To shave chunthinch for a well adorned Man pixao for Linen balandan for the cloth with which they cover themselves abaca for hawk’sbell coloncolon 374 for Pater nosters of all classes tacle [ 195 ] for Comb cutlei, missamis for to Comb monssughud for Shirt sabun for Sewing-needle daghu for to Sew mamis for Porcelain mobuluc for Dog aian, ydo for Cat epos for their Scarfs gapas for Glass Beads balus Come here marica for House ilaga, balai for Timber tatamue for the Mats on which they sleep tagichan for Palm-mats bani for their Leaf cushions uliman for Wooden platters dulan for their God abba for Sun adlo for Moon songhot for Star bolan, bunthun for Dawn mene for Morning uema for Cup tagha Large bassal for Bow bossugh for Arrow oghon for Shields calassan for Quilted garments used for fighting baluti for their daggers calix, baladao [ 197 ] for their Cutlasses campilan for Spear bancan for Like tuan for Figs [ i.e. , bananas] saghin for Gourds baghin for the Cords of their violins gotzap for River tau for Fishing-net pucat, laia for small Boat sampan for large Canes cauaghan for the small ones bonbon for their large Boats balanghai for their small Boats boloto 375 for Crabs cuban for Fish icam, yssida for a Fish that is all colored panapsapan for another red [Fish] timuan for a certain other [kind of Fish] pilax for another [kind of Fish] emaluan All the same siama siama for a Slave bonsul for Gallows bolle for Ship benaoa for a King or Captain-general raia Numero: Vno Vzza [ 198 ] duy dua tre tolo.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

For Liberian coffee Coffea
2—For Liberian coffee ( Coffea liberica ).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

former little charming companion
After our ship was fitted out again for service, in September she went to Guernsey, where I was very glad to see my old hostess, who was now a widow, and my former little charming companion, her daughter.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

free like Champagne corks
We popped free like Champagne corks an eternity later, blinking in the grey smoky light.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

fairly large circle came
I remember that a fairly large circle came into existence, as it were, spontaneously, the centre of which perhaps was really to be found in Yulia Mihailovna’s drawing-room.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

fat legs could carry
He quietly slipped off the gate and ran, as fast as his fat legs could carry him, to the barn.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

frigid lukewarm cool cool
indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante[obs3], easygoing, devil- may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous[obs3], unsolicitous[obs3], unattracted.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

F LENROOT Chief Children
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FRANCES PERKINS , Secretary CHILDREN'S BUREAU KATHARINE F. LENROOT , Chief Children in Wartime No. 6 Bureau Publication
— from If Your Baby Must Travel in Wartime by United States. Children's Bureau

f le camp cried
Your coffee f—— le camp !" cried the beautiful favorite.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Fumigating lacquer consists chiefly
Fumigating lacquer consists chiefly of resins, to which sufficient liquid storax is added to render the mass plastic, so that sticks of any desired length and thickness can be formed therefrom.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

first Lord Carteret considered
At first Lord Carteret considered it a thousand pities that they should not have contrived matters better so as to take Sir Richard alive; but upon reflection he was careful not to exaggerate to himself the loss occasioned by his death, for Sir Richard, after all, was a notoriously stubborn man, not in the least likely to have made any avowals worth having.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

for latitudinarian churchmen careless
evolutionists unaware of the tendencies of their doctrine, or for latitudinarian churchmen careless as to the maintenance of truth if only outward forms are preserved and comprehension secured, to overlook or make light of these antagonisms, but science [54] and common sense alike demand a severe adherence to truth.
— from Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief by Dawson, John William, Sir

fact Louis Capet could
Accordingly, the Constitution of 1791 being virtually null in fact, Louis Capet could not invoke the protection of that Constitution, which guaranteed the inviolability of the royal person, and limited his punishment to deposition in a few specified cases.
— from The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution by Eugène Sue


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