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los vecinos del
Sólo entonces comprendieron los vecinos del Padrón que el 10 boticario estaba también envenenado.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

La voz de
10 La voz de abajo gritaba de nuevo: —¡Jacinto, pero Jacinto!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

le vous disons
Ceste pierre, biaus Sire, Crestiens demandons: Il ne le porront rendre, pour vrai le vous disons, Si li monstiers n'est mis et par pièches et par mons; Et s'il estoit desfais, jamais ne le larons Refaire chi-endroit.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

little Vampa displayed
When quite a child, the little Vampa displayed a most extraordinary precocity.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

los visillos de
[122] para el empapelado de las paredes, los visillos de las ventanas y los cortinados.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

las vegas de
La gran riqueza de la isla, sin embargo, consiste en las vegas de tabaco, de caña de azúcar, de café y de algodón.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

le Vicomte de
My alarm, therefore, was great when I saw that the room into which M. le Vicomte de Chagny
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

li vien dinanzi
Dico che quando l'anima mal nata li vien dinanzi, tutta si confessa; e quel conoscitor de le peccata vede qual loco d'inferno e` da essa; cignesi con la coda tante volte quantunque gradi vuol che giu` sia messa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

la vertu des
M. Dieu fit du repentir la vertu des mortels —God 40 has made repentance the virtue of mortals.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Le Ventre de
La Curee was followed by Le Ventre de Paris , which reached a second edition.
— from A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson

larger view drift
They cite the case of parties who having accepted the larger view, drift into infidelity.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

Lehre von der
1-16, Gulpen 1885.—Oswald, Die Lehre von der Heiligung , 3rd ed., § 1-3, Paderborn 1885.—S. Schiffini, De Gratia Divina , disp.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

Lord Viscount Dundee
"Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee," &c., 1714.
— from Claverhouse by Mowbray Morris

looks very distant
The horizon then looks very distant, and draws near as the head erects itself again.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

larger vessels depicted
The larger vessels depicted with oars have in some cases as many as twenty-five shown on one side.
— from Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate


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