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la Mer et ceste creature
"Encore ont une autre manière de filsoufes, et dient-il: 'Il n'est mie ne Diex ne Kerma ne courance vers le bien, ne Providence, ne Créerres, ne Sauvours, ne sainteté ne pechiés ne conscience de pechié, ne proyère ne response à proyère, il n'est nulle riens fors que trop minime grain ou paillettes qui ont à nom atosmes , et de tiex grains devient chose qui vive, et chose qui vive devient une certeinne creature qui demoure au rivaige de la Mer: et ceste creature devient poissons, et poissons devient lezars, et lezars devient blayriaus, et blayriaus devient gat-maimons, et gat-maimons devient hons sauvaiges qui menjue char d'homes, et hons sauvaiges devient hons crestien.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

le monde entier change cette
Etre en contact avec le monde entier change cette approche des choses.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

life more endurable comprises certain
141 The Most Usual Means by which the ascetic and the sanctified individual seeks to make life more endurable comprises certain combats of an inner nature involving alternations of victory and prostration.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

les méchants et contenir chacun
When “Quebec first raised the legal courts For Does or Roes to hold their sports,” 2 69 the spirit of the Conseil Souverain was one which did not at the Conquest migrate to the new body: “Nous avons cru ne pouvoir prendre une meilleure résolution qu’en établisant une justice réglé et un Conseil Souverain dans le dits pays, pour y faire fleurir les lois, maintenir et appuyer les bons, chatier les méchants, et contenir chacun en son droit.”
— from Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim: Rebellion Times in the Canadas by Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars

le Meldux Ecuvilly Catigny Candor
On the 28th it moved 107 by Flavy le Meldux, Ecuvilly, Catigny, Candor, and entered line west of Lassigny on the 29th, relieving the 1st Bavarian Division.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

L Molinari E Covelli c
Pamphlets, reviews and papers by P. Gori, L. Molinari, E. Covelli, &c.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

little more experience could consider
He judged from this that he was doing very well, and with a little more experience could consider himself a full-fledged trapper.
— from Darry the Life Saver; Or, The Heroes of the Coast by Frank V. Webster

lovers meetings eh concluded Cleek
I daresay Lady Brenton will contrive to waylay her to-morrow, and then——" "Journeys end in lovers' meetings, eh?" concluded Cleek, with a little laugh of pure happiness.
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew

like many exclusive circles consisted
I began again to notice who my neighbors were, as to daisies and heather which resided around the stone on which I sat, and the exclusive circle of a fairy-ring at a little distance, which, like many exclusive circles, consisted entirely of mushrooms.
— from The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

l muso E cche
[141] the manner in which sheep come out from the fold: Come le pecorelle escon del chiuso A una a due a tre, e l'altre stanno, Timidette atterrando l'occhio e' l muso; E cche
— from Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church


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