"lydda" hidden in books

life yet dimly developed a

What a contrast in my feelings; for the one a subdued sorrow at the sudden ending of a life full-ripened, only that we would have 242 basked in its sunshine a little longer; for the other a keen anguish over the untimely cutting off in the dawn of existence, with the hopes and longings but just beginning to take form, the real purpose of life yet dimly developed, a great nature but half revealed.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

lord you do discomfort all

My lord, you do discomfort all the host.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

laut yang di darat Anak

Mengantarkan makan-makanan-nya, Yang di hulu, yang di hilir, Yang di laut, yang di darat, Anak unta bertujoh ekor Mengantarkan rezki-nya, Dan lagi gajah puteh sabrang lautan Mengantarkan rezki-mu.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

lullaby your dreams deceive And

With lullaby now take your leave; With lullaby your dreams deceive; And when you rise with waking eye, Remember then this lullaby.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

lure your daughter deliberately away

“We don’t know who he is; he might be anyone, and villainous enough to lure your daughter deliberately away, after all,” said the apprentice, as he lit his pipe, said good-bye to the old man and went off to search and make inquiries.
— from Gabrielle of the Lagoon: A Romance of the South Seas by W. H. (William Henry) Myddleton

love you dearly dearly and

I love you dearly, dearly, and am as glad to see you as you could wish me to be."
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

like Yankee Doodle disguised as

It is a funny thing, if people have [Pg 163] no ear for music, and can't tell one tune from another, they don't seem to hear foreign words rightly, and so, when they speak, their pronunciation is like "Yankee Doodle" disguised as "God Save the King."
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Let youth desire demand and

Let youth desire, demand and take Thy weapons.
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil

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