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medola cõ lacqua et poi
Quando voleno fare oglio piglianno queſto cocho et laſſano putrefare q e lla medola cõ lacqua et poi la fanno buglire et
— 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

my conscience lost everything pretty
I have had bad luck, lost my money, lost my friends, lost my conscience, lost everything, pretty near"—and here he turned his watery eyes on his friend with a saw-toothed smile and shook his depleted abdomen, that had been worn off climbing many hills—"I've lost everything, pretty near, but
— from In Our Town by William Allen White

Münchmeyer could later ever pretend
I also thought it impossible that Münchmeyer could later ever pretend that he had bought my novels with all rights not just up to the twenty thousandth subscriber, but forever, because, first of all, I had kept all of his letters, in which he repeated everything, we had (not)
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May

made certain little especial preparations
She had made certain little especial preparations—picked flowers, herself cut the sandwiches thin, put on her most becoming tea gown.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

Mrs Compton lik Eunice possessing
Mrs. Compton, lik Eunice, possessing "unfeigned faith," discovered great concern for the spiritual welfare of her children, not only praying for them, but conversing with them on the most important and deeply interesting subject that can engage the thoughts of young persons,—the way in which mercy is extended to sinners.
— from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

must cry long enough poor
So she cries in her flat, soft dialect; and must cry long enough, poor Isotta.
— from The End of the Middle Ages: Essays and Questions in History by A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

Mohave County lower end Prospect
—Total, 90, all from Arizona, distributed as follows: Mohave County : lower end Prospect Valley, 4500 ft., Grand Canyon, 7 (USBS); Kingman, 9 (LACM).
— from Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii KU. Vol 1 No 23 by Henry W. Setzer

mea crimina lector et peragar
Similar language at Tr I i 23-24 'protinus admonitus repetet mea crimina lector, / et peragar populi publicus ore reus '.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

mentioned conventions leaving each party
These arrangements have been continued for an indefinite period of time after the expiration of the above mentioned conventions, leaving each party the liberty of terminating them by giving twelve months' notice to the other.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

many ceremonial laws especially provoked
His method of explaining many ceremonial laws especially provoked contradiction, because, if accepted, these laws would lose their permanent value, and have only temporary importance.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz


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