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lyric erotic and didactic elements
[ 329 ] The subject-matter of the later Kāvyas, which is derived from the two great epics, becomes more and more mixed up with lyric, erotic, and didactic elements.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Lauorattj et andaſſemo doue era
poſta la cruce ognuno dice vno pater noſter et vna aue maria adorandola coſi li re fecenno poy deſcendeſſemo ꝓ li ſui campi Lauorattj et andaſſemo doue era
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

late excellent and deservedly esteemed
There has been a late excellent and deservedly esteemed philosopher who, no doubt, has given it very much countenance, by seeming to think the having abstract general ideas is what puts the widest difference in point of understanding betwixt man and beast.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Las estancias argentinas destinadas exclusivamente
Las estancias argentinas destinadas exclusivamente a la cría de animales finos o de raza, o de sangre pura, se distinguen con el nombre especial de cabañas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

lively eye as did everybody
The solid inspector for the first time looked at the blacksmith with a lively eye; as did everybody else, except the short, strange priest, who was still looking down at the little hammer that had dealt the dreadful blow.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

lives eating as dogs eat
Therefore, if you point your telescope back to antiquity about twelve or one o'clock in the daytime, you will descry our most worthy ancestors all eating for their very lives, eating as dogs eat, viz.
— from Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

letter extension and detail enough
And in truth, with reference to the divining rod, I have already given my letter extension and detail enough for the purpose I contemplated, and I will add no more.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

Lower Egypt a double empire
7,230 Hereditary Kings in Upper and Lower Egypt, a double empire form...............................
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

little Edie a dainty English
But that Harry Oswald’s sister—that Edie, his own precious delicate little Edie, a dainty English wild-flower of the tenderest, should be transplanted from her own appreciative home to such a chilly and ungenial soil as that—the very idea of it was horribly unspeakable.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

liberté en a disparu elle
perd son véritable caractère du moment que la liberté en a disparu; elle devient une sorte de physique sociale.
— from A Lecture on the Study of History by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

l996 embassy Avenue des Etats
[1] (202) 342-2574 Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Morris N. HUGHES, Jr. (27 June l996) embassy : Avenue des Etats-Unis, Bujumbura mailing address: B. P. 1720, Bujumbura telephone :
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

L E and D E
2. (Alcoholic; Extractum nucis vomicæ —Ph. L. E. and D., E. n. v. alcoholicum , L.)— a. (B. P.)
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

l996 embassy Avenue des Etats
: Ambassador Morris N. HUGHES, Jr. (27 June l996) embassy: Avenue des Etats-Unis, Bujumbura mailing address: B. P. 1720, Bujumbura telephone:
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

light enough and dark enough
It was not yet dark, and in the twilight we could see objects at a certain distance, but it was just light enough and dark enough to confuse one's vision.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott


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