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for us damlag
Who knows what the future holds for us? — damlag n in the future, someday.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

from unseen dangers
, children are often called indoors at this time to save them from unseen dangers.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

F Ueber den
Hueppe, F. Ueber den Missbrauch von Kaffe, Blätter für Gesundheitspflege, 1906, VI: 121–126.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

faithful unto death
"I have been faithful unto death," murmured she.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

für Untersuchung der
Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, 1908, XV: 705–715.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

f unlikeness difference
ungelīcnes f. unlikeness, difference , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

face upon dissemble
circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap[obs3], ensnare; nick, springe[obs3]; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay[obs3], spread the toils, lime; trapan[obs3], trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle[obs3], nousel[obs3]; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh[obs3]; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate[obs3], hocus, escamoter[obs3], practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up*, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of[obs3], make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over &c. (influence) 615; gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble &c 544.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

for unknown delight
The longing for unknown delight Which boys in vain withstand.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

for usual dip
The subsequent treatments are the same as for usual dip-killing methods.
— from Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing by William E. Austin

Feuers und des
684. A. Kuhn, Die Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertranks 2 (Gütersloh, 1886), pp. 175 sq. , quoting Dybeck's Runa , 1845, pp.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

find under date
In the Kingsclere Racing Circular , a weekly pamphlet issued by these honourable gentlemen, we find under date March 10, 1871, the following ingenious application.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

follows under date
He writes as follows under date of January 21:—“I have been told that in the last great plague in London none that kept tobacconists’ shops had the plague.
— from England in the Days of Old by William Andrews

first unsettled did
If a man said to me, "On such a day and before such persons you said a thing was white, when it was black," I understand what is meant well enough, and I can set myself to prove an alibi or to explain the mistake; or if a man said to me, "You tried to gain me over to your party, intending to take me with you to Rome, but you did not succeed," I can give him the lie, and lay down an assertion of my own as firm and as exact as his, that not from the time that I was first unsettled, did I ever attempt to gain any one over to myself or to my Romanizing opinions, and that it is only his own coxcombical fancy which has bred such a thought in him: but my imagination is at a loss in presence of those vague charges, which have commonly been brought against me, charges, which are made up of impressions, and understandings, and inferences, and hearsay, and surmises.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

for unimportant details
Mezzotints in Modern Music Opinions of the Press: Mr. Huneker is, in the best sense, a critic; he listens to the music and gives you his impressions as rapidly and in as few words as possible; or he sketches the composers in fine, broad, sweeping strokes with a magnificent disregard for unimportant details.
— from Melomaniacs by James Huneker

from utter darkness
Attending muses will obey command, Invoke the aid of Shakespear's sleeping clay, And strike from utter darkness new born day.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber

formal unity disappears
Where this communication ceases, where the formal unity disappears, and the contiguous parts belong to one another only by juxtaposition, the man is dead, or the State is dissolved.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

fallen upon deaf
They had endeavoured to defeat his reappointment to the mayoralty; but their wild protests had fallen upon deaf ears.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander


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