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I suspect so easily despise
One may hate a true miser, but cannot, I suspect, so easily despise him.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

in Social Sciences Ecole des
He studied discourse analysis at the School of High Studies in Social Sciences (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales - EHESS), Paris.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

intensive statuô set establish determine
verb [ com- , intensive, + sequor , follow ], pursue; overtake; win côn-servô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus [ com- , intensive, + servô , save ], preserve, save cônsilium, cônsi´lî , n. plan, purpose, design; wisdom côn-sistô, -ere, -stitî, -stitus [ com- , intensive, + sistô , cause to stand ], stand firmly, halt, take one's stand côn-spiciô, -ere, -spêxî, -spectus [ com- , intensive, + spiciô , spy ], look at attentively, perceive, see cônstantia, -ae , f. firmness, steadiness, perseverance côn-stituô, -ere, -uî, -ûtus [ com- , intensive, + statuô , set ], establish, determine, resolve côn-stô, -âre, -stitî, -stâtûrus [ com- , together , + stô , stand ], agree; be certain ; consist of cônsul, -ulis , m. consul ( § 464.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

inhalation suction sucking eating drinking
— N. reception; admission, admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission[obs3], ingestion, imbibation[obs3], introception[obs3], absorption, ingurgitation[obs3], inhalation; suction, sucking; eating, drinking &c. (food) 298; insertion &c. 300; interjection &c. 228; introit.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

intensive statuō set establish determine
verb [ com- , intensive, + sequor , follow ], pursue; overtake; win cōn-servō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus [ com- , intensive, + servō , save ], preserve, save cōnsilium, cōnsi´lī , n. plan, purpose, design; wisdom cōn-sistō, -ere, -stitī, -stitus [ com- , intensive, + sistō , cause to stand ], stand firmly, halt, take one’s stand cōn-spiciō, -ere, -spēxī, -spectus [ com- , intensive, + spiciō , spy ], look at attentively, perceive, see cōnstantia, -ae , f. firmness, steadiness, perseverance cōn-stituō, -ere, -uī, -ūtus [ com- , intensive, + statuō , set ], establish, determine, resolve cōn-stō, -āre, -stitī, -stātūrus [ com- , together , + stō , stand ], agree; be certain ; consist of cōnsul, -ulis , m. consul ( § 464.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I seed sojers every day
"When war come on I seed sojers every day.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

isolated secondary sensory elements dissociated
In the phenomena of synaesthesia we have hallucinations in the simplest form, inasmuch as only isolated secondary sensory elements dissociated from their active primary central elements stand out in the foreground of consciousness.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

I shall simply enumerate Dr
According to Dr. Gray they form seven families and 24 genera; according to Professor Carus, four sub-families and 8 genera, but as these groups appear to be established on quite different principles, and often differ widely from each other, I shall simply enumerate Dr. Gray's genera with their distribution as given in his British Museum Catalogue.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

in some such earthen dungeon
And now, as Tom looked into that jagged hollow, his thoughts went even further back, and he thought how it was in some such earthen dungeon as this that he and Barnard had first seen each other—or rather, met. Barnard had thoughtfully refrained from talking of those things which were still so agitating and disturbing to poor Tom, but Tom thought of it now, because his stolid nature was pierced at last, and his heart was overflowing with gratitude to this new friend, who twice had come to his rescue—here on the isolated hillside on the edge of the beloved camp, and over there, in war torn France.
— from Tom Slade at Black Lake by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

I still suffer every day
And then, if you knew, my father, what I have suffered—what I still suffer every day, in saying, 'If it should please God that the past should be known, with what merited scorn would she be treated who is now elevated so high.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 by Eugène Sue

India seas straits El Dorados
During the last few centuries, when the maps of the world were in great part blank, the search for new worlds was fashionable business, and when such large game was no longer to be found, islands lying unclaimed in the great oceans, inhabited by useful and profitable people to be converted or enslaved, became attractive objects; also new ways to India, seas, straits, El Dorados, fountains of youth, and rivers that flowed over golden sands.
— from Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

incipiunt scribere sursum et ducunt
Ipsi incipiunt scribere sursum, et ducunt lineam deorsum, et, eodem modo ipsi legunt et multiplicant lineas a sinistra ad dextram.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

in superior stone easily dug
The contiguous lands abound in superior stone, easily dug, and well suited for the construction of causeways as well as arches; while the magnificent forests, which rear their lofty heads to the north of the projected line, would for sleepers furnish any quantity of an almost [pg 665] incorruptible and even incombustible wood, resembling teak.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various


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