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Transcriber's Note: The following is a 1903 translation of this passage by J.M. Rigg (from Project Gutenberg Etext
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

fide pledgee gutgläubiger Erwerber
Hypothek bona fide mortgagee gutgläubiger Erwerber eines Pfandrechts bona fide pledgee gutgläubiger Erwerber gegen Entgelt bona fide purchaser for value gutgläubiger
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

ferōx praedā glōriāque exercitus
ferōx praedā glōriāque exercitus , Ta.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

firm principle great executive
She is a frank, generous, self-sacrificing woman, of a kind, tender nature, firm principle, great executive ability, and in every relation of life true as the needle to the pole.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Fyodor Pavlovitch got excited
Fyodor Pavlovitch got excited and pathetic, though it was perfectly clear to every one by now that he was playing a part again.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

filthy poverty give else
For what can filthy poverty give else, but [2259] beggary, fulsome nastiness, squalor, contempt, drudgery, labour, ugliness, hunger and thirst; pediculorum, et pulicum numerum ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

few pounds grant every
All college fees were paid by the government, she had moreover a few pounds grant every year.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

French party gave encouragement
Henry, in order to check the authority of Albany and the French party, gave encouragement to these malecontents, and assured them of his support.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

fortune pleasure glory everything
" "Favart," he adds, "ought to feel highly flattered that you should sacrifice for him fortune, pleasure, glory, everything, in short, that might have made the happiness of your life.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

first place get everything
In the first place get everything in readiness.
— from Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various

fish proved good eating
The tiger fish proved good eating and were a welcome addition to the usual menu.
— from The Forest of Mystery by James H. Foster

fairly presumed got enough
The strangers stopped at hotels and with the brethren, and, it may be fairly presumed, got enough to eat.
— from Our Girls by Dio Lewis

face pretty girls engrossed
New Zealand, expectation by the natives of, of their extinction; practice of tattooing in; aversion of natives of, to hairs on the face; pretty girls engrossed by the chiefs in.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin


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