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foul pollute defile dirt
ANT: Soil, begrime, besmear, foul, pollute, defile, dirt.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

forum permanent de discussions
Un forum permanent de discussions en ligne lui permet d'échanger avec ses lecteurs.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

For poor damn d
An' bake them up in brunstane pies For poor damn'd drinkers.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Fyodor Pavlovitch delighted Did
“There!” cried Fyodor Pavlovitch, delighted. “Did I not say he was von Sohn.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

f pause demeure de
splendide , magnifique, somptueux. station , f. , pause, demeure de peu de durée qu'on fait dans un lieu.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

fluorescent pink dreads down
She was wearing a torn wife-beater and her hair was in long, fluorescent pink dreads down to her waist.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

first person Donna Diana
The first person Donna Diana saw was her brother, standing disconsolately by one of the short pillars and looking at each carriage as it drove up.
— from To Leeward by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

for parental devotion develop
If the future brings about the full economic independence of women, if physiologists will undertake to guarantee society certain immunities from the sexual excess of the individual, [25] if, and these are the most important conditions of all, increases in biological, psychological and social knowledge make parenthood a more enlightened and purposive function than is even dreamed of at present and if pari passu with this increase of knowledge a higher standard of parental duty and a greater capacity for parental devotion develop, [ 105 ] then the need of sexual restraint as we understand it may disappear and different relations between the sexes before marriage and to a certain extent within marriage may be expected."
— from Socialism: Positive and Negative by Robert Rives La Monte

four paddles dipped deeply
The four paddles dipped deeply into the water, and simultaneously the little canoes started into the teeth of the wind.
— from The Outdoor Chums on the Lake; Or, Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island by Quincy Allen

faire pur defaute d
[696] "Et les nuncia auxi la cause de la longe demore quele il avoit faite es dites parties saunz chivaucher sur ses enemys; et coment il le covendra faire pur defaute d'avoir."
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

finger pointing Dorothy down
"Cheat!" repeated the teacher, with an index finger pointing Dorothy down.
— from The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or, Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Gertrude W. Morrison

FORBIGER Populäre Darstellung des
FORBIGER , Populäre Darstellung des öffentlichen und häuslichen Lebens der Griechen und Römer.
— from The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks by Frank Pierrepont Graves

From Pers dih dah
[687] From Pers. , dih, dah , village (Parsi dahi ).
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane


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