a. crossing back Attref, n. deserted place Attrefiad, n. depopulation Attrefnu, v. to arrange anew Attreg, n. delay; demur Attreiddio, v. to penetrate again Attreiglo, v. to roll again Attreisio, v. to make reprisal Attrethu, v. to tax again Attro, n. a recurrence Attrosi, v. to pass over again Attrwch, n. recision Attwf, n. a second growth Attwg, n. a prospering Attwyn, v. to bring back, return Attybiad, n. reconsideration Attyblygu, v. lo reduplicate Attychwel, v. to return again; n. a fallen back Attyfiant, n. regermination Attymp, n. second season — from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards
position and never durst ask Vanderdecken
As time passed my wonder increased, for though I knew not our position, and never durst ask Vanderdecken what situation his dead-reckoning assigned us, I could not conceive—recollecting the place in which the Saracen was when we sighted the Death Ship—that we had been blown, during the time I had been on board, into a very remote sea; and hence 'twas reasonable that I should think it [83] wanted but a few days sailing after this pattern to carry us round the Cape. — from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 3 (of 3) by William Clark Russell
processes are not directly at variance
ECCENTRICITY.--Persons whose minds deviate in some one or more notable respects from the ordinary standard, but yet whose mental processes are not directly at variance with that standard, are said to be eccentric. — from Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various
protected and not destroyed any views
Sadder still would it be if the following view were to prevail at our colleges: “ A right of the student to see protected and not destroyed any views and convictions, including those of a religious nature, which he may bring to the university from his home surroundings, from his preliminary education, as it is asserted time and again in the frequent complaints about the dechristianizing of youth at the universities—does not exist and cannot exist, because it would be in contradiction to the very essence of the university and its tasks ” ( Jodl ). — from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat
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