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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

(→) n flat level land, plains.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then with a stronger buffet he clove the helm As throughly as the skull; and out from this Issued the bright face of a blooming boy Fresh as a flower new-born, and crying, 'Knight, Slay me not: my three brethren bad me do it, To make a horror all about the house, And stay the world from Lady Lyonors.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Ivi e` Romena, la` dov'io falsai la lega suggellata del Batista; per ch'io il corpo su` arso lasciai.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

What this feeble light leaves indistinct to the sight talent must discover, or must be left to chance.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

lǣdensprǣc (ē) f. Latin language , Æ, CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

VII STREET FAUST MARGARET (passing by) FAUST Fair lady, let it not offend you, That arm and escort I would lend you!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For leaves let cloth and gems entwine, And let its fruit be nymphs divine. Let Soma 367 give the noblest food To feed the mighty multitude, Of every kind, for tooth and lip, To chew, to lick, to suck, and sip. Let wreaths, where fairest flowers abound, Spring from the trees that bloom around.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Secondly, it may enter into account, or be considered, for some accident or quality, which we conceive to be in it; as for Being Moved, for Being So Long, for Being Hot, &c; and then, of the name of the thing it selfe, by a little change or wresting, wee make a name for that accident, which we consider; and for Living put into account Life; for Moved, Motion; for Hot, Heat; for Long, Length, and the like.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

levantisco (1, from Levante ) Levantine, Turk-like; ( 2, from levantar )
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

My dear Brother , I have just received your letter of the 3rd, and though I have nothing new to say to you upon the point of Captain Taylor, he not having yet sent his answer, I cannot help writing a few lines, lest you think the subject is out of my mind.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

III. SWISS AIR I'm a gay tra, la, la, With my fal, lal, la, la, And my bright— And my light— Tra, la, le.
— from Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte

It had a corduroy bridge, that is, logs about two feet in diameter, and twelve feet long, laid side by side.
— from The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison by William N. (William Nelson) Tyler

[Pg 243] Here vented at the price of Princes Ransomes; How bright they shine like constellations, The South Seas treasure here, Pearl, fair and orient Able to equal Cleopatra's Banquet: Here chains of lesser stones for Ladies lusters, Ingotts of Gold, Rings, Brooches, bars of Silver, These are my studies to set off in sale well, And not in sensual surfeits to consume 'em; How rosts mine egg; he heats apace, I'll turn him: Penurio , where you knave do you wait?
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10 by John Fletcher

hath left me, Falero, lero, loo!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

"...Estant ainsi à table devisant familierement avec ces seigneurs, elle dit ces mots, (après avoir fort loüé le roy): C'estoit le prince du monde que j'avois plus desiré de voir, &
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The views down the valley of the Rhone, which opened continually before us, were of exquisite beauty, The river itself, which is here near its source, looked like a meadow rivulet in its silver windings, and the gigantic Helvetian Alps which rose in their snow on the other side of the valley, were glittering in the slant rays of a declining sun, and of a grandeur of size and outline which diminished, even more than distance, the river and the clusters of villages at their feet. LETTER LXIV.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

"You are just cut out for domestic felicity, Lord Lydstone.
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

Nays. —Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Cocke, Franklin, Langdon, Livermore, Marshall, S. T. Mason, and Nicholas.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Those in the front line leaned back at a slant, and those behind pushed.
— from Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman by Burt L. Standish