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makes em look like so
The Mestizzo, Mullatto, and black Women, are most in Number, but not being allow’d to wear Veils, or the Spanish Habit, and despising the Indian Garb, they wear a thing like a Petticoat a-cross their Shoulders, or on their Heads, which makes ’em look like so many Devils.
— from A Cruising Voyage Around the World by Woodes Rogers

Mr E L Layard seems
Mr. E. L. Layard seems to be of the same opinion (Tennent’s Nat. Hist.
— from Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances. by Frank Cowan

mouf en laff lak some
"Brer Rabbit, he tuck'n peep at um, he did, en he lick he foot en roach back he h'ar, en den hol' his han's 'cross he mouf en laff lak some chilluns does w'en dey t'ink dey
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

morales et leur Littérature suivies
[621] For an account of Fuller and Derham, see De la Littérature des Nègres, ou Recherches sur leurs Facultés intellectuelles, leurs Qualités morales et leur Littérature; suivies de Notices sur la Vie et les Ouvrages des Nègres qui se sont distingués dans les Sciences, les Lettres et les Arts.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

missilibus et lanceis longissimis super
86 When the Scotch, he writes, 'amentatis missilibus et lanceis longissimis super aciem equitum nostrorum loricatam percutiunt, quasi muro ferreo offendentes, impenetrabiles [compare the 'impenetrabiles' ranks of the English at Hastings, supra , p. 276] invenerunt....
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Miss Esther Levana Literature See
See Transition Classes and Junior School Keilhau, Kindergarten Band, Kindergartens, America, first English, Froebelian principles See Froebel, Germany, Kids' Guards , London School Board Infant Schools, proposed introduction, perversion of system in Infant Schools, Schrader, Henrietta, work of, Klein, Abbé, Krause, Language training, games for, Lawrence, Miss Esther, Levana , Literature See also Stories and Poetry Lodge, Sir O., Macdonald, George, stories of, Macdonald, Dr. Greville, M'Millan, Miss Margaret, Macpherson, Mr. Stewart, Magic Cities , Marenholz, Madame von, Mathematics, transition class, Maufe, Miss, Medical view of education, Dr. Montessori, Meum and tuum training, Miall, Mrs., Michaelis, Madame, Michaelis Nursery School, Notting Dale, Middendorf, Mission Kindergarten, Moltke, von, Montessori, Dr. Maria— Froebelian views of, medical view of education, play activities, failure to understand, Moral teaching— humour as factor in morality, See also Religion, Service for the Community, Stories Morgan, Lloyd, Mother Songs , Music, Kindergarten Band, Name of school for little children and its importance, Nature work, experiences of the natural world, activities in a suburban garden, aim of, animals, excursions, movement c. 1890, nature calendar, object lesson and nature lesson, pictures, use of, plants and flowers, religion and nature work, Necessities of the Nursery School, See also Equipment and Principles Nesbit, Mrs., Magic Cities , Net beds, Number work.
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

Modern English love loved sleep
The verbs of the Weak Conjugation (the so-called Regular Verbs of Modern English) form their preterit 17 and past participle by adding to the present stem a suffix 6 with d or t : Modern English love , loved ; sleep , slept .
— from Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso) Smith


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