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in che era condotta Ell

A vizio di lussuria fu si` rotta, che libito fe' licito in sua legge, per torre il biasmo in che era condotta. Ell'e` Semiramis, di cui si legge che succedette a Nino e fu sua sposa: tenne la terra che 'l Soldan corregge.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

intorno cinta e con essa

Io avea una corda intorno cinta, e con essa pensai alcuna volta prender la lonza a la pelle dipinta.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

in Cham El Cham Ees

His name is often found compounded with other terms, as in Cham El, Cham Ees, Cam Ait: and was in this manner conferred both on persons and places.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

in continental Europe could ever

It had never occurred to him that such a series of plots, frequent though they might be in continental Europe, could ever be attempted in a country like the United States.
— from The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Bannister Merwin

Invincible class each carrying eight

2. The main body of the British Grand Fleet, under Admiral Jellicoe, flying his flag in the Iron Duke—consisting of a fast wing under Rear Admiral Hood, (three 26-knot battle cruisers of Invincible class, each carrying eight 12-inch guns,) a division of four armored cruisers under Rear Admiral Arbuthnot, and twenty-five dreadnoughts in three squadrons commanded by Vice Admirals Burney, Jerram, and Sturdee.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

it covered every contingency except

The answer was quite simple: "The German military machine was so perfect that it covered every contingency except the most obvious and guarded every road except the easiest way.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

internal cavity e c e

—The layer of shell surrounding the internal cavity ( e c e , fig. 4 , Pl. 14 ), and extending down to the basal membrane, I have called the sheath, owing to its being distinctly continuous with the innermost layer in the upper part of the shell, to which the opercular membrane is attached: this can be best seen by examining the alæ in the separated compartments of C. patula .
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

indeed can exact copy ever

There is no necessity for much repetition of any design, nor indeed can exact copy ever be made.
— from Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing by Ida Strawn Baker

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