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li Laſſarebe duy
et pregolo alguni de Ly ſoy rimaneſſe açio meglio lui et li ſui populi focero inſtructi nelafede Lo cap o reſpoſe que ꝓ Contentarlo li Laſſarebe duy ma voleua menar ſeco dui fanciulli deli principalli acio in paraſſeno la linga
— 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

looked like deformed
On the right and on the left of the road, which the dismal procession pursued, appeared a few low, stunted trees, which looked like deformed dwarfs crouching down to watch men traveling at this sinister hour.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

limiter la diffusion
Le tatouage des oeuvres lors de l'impression personnelle est un excellent moyen de limiter la diffusion d'impressions excessives.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

les logiciels de
J'ai surtout apprécié les logiciels de courrier, de transfert de fichiers, de connexion à distance.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

lxxi lxxx Dance
Cyclopedia of Indian tribes, work on xxviii–xxix [ Contents ] D Dagûlʻkû geese , myths concerning 254 – 255 , 284 , 439 Dahlonega , establishment of mint at 220 Dakota , myths of 432 Dăkwă′ , myths concerning 307 , 320 – 321 , 469 Dance , characters of lxxvii–lxxviii Dance , influence of, on development of music and drama lxxi, lxxx Dance , myths concerning 254 , 274 , 279 Dance , scalp 496 Dance , visiting 493 Dandridge , raid near 75 Dangerous man , migration under 99 – 100 Darkening land , myths concerning 248 , 253 , 261 , 262 , 313 D’Artaguette , defeat of French under 417 Dart throwing among Indians 494 Daughter of the Sun , myths concerning 252 – 254 , 297 , 436 – 438 Davidson , see Fay and Davidson .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

large luminous dark
she said, in a voice scarce louder than a whisper, but with a tone of startling vehemence, and, seizing the boy, she snatched him from me, as if some dire contamination were in my touch, and then stood with one hand firmly clasping his, the other on his shoulder, fixing upon me her large, luminous dark eyes—pale, breathless, quivering with agitation.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

little lower down
16 and 43 ); and in [35] addition the first appearances (as the series is traced downwards) of the arches of the lamella over the two lateral tentacles ( ct´ ), which are inserted a little lower down than the middle one of the group.
— from The Cubomedusæ by Franklin Story Conant

long lonely drive
(He too had counted on tonight and the long, lonely drive with Gay, and was in none too pleasant a mood with life.)
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

Lucie Ledanois dream
Did Lucie Ledanois dream such a thing?
— from The Mardi Gras Mystery by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

looked like dignity
It looked like dignity.
— from Country Neighbors by Alice Brown

le lasting during
Duréu o le, lasting, during, durable.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Le Livre du
du Roi, no. 959, the title of which is 'Le Livre du Secret de la Creature, par le sage Belinous.'
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

little local deposition
Now, it's not so very unreasonable, at least to the free and easy vaudeville standards that, throughout this book, we are considering, to think that a green substance could be snatched up from one place in a whirlwind, and fall as a black substance somewhere else: but the royal Irishmen excluded something else, and it is a datum that was as accessible to them as it is to me: That, according to Chladni, this was no little, local deposition that was seen to occur by some indefinite person living near a pond somewhere.
— from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

little line Dwight
To protect the left and right flanks of this little line, Dwight quickly moved the 29th Maine and the 161st New York.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin


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