[38] Por otra parte, preciso es distinguir en la América latina la droguería, donde se venden drogas y cuerpos químicos, al por mayor, de [39] las boticas o farmacias, donde se despachan recetas y se adquieren específicos y medicinas caseras. — from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Monachi sese putant prophetare ex Deo, et qui solitariam agunt vitam, quum sit instinctu daemonum; et sic falluntur fatidicae; a malo genio habent, quas putant a Deo, et sic enthusiastae. — from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
pobrecito está desde el
Ya no tenemos Penitenciario, no precisamente porque haya pasado a mejor vida, sino porque el pobrecito está desde el mes de Abril tan acongojado, tan melancólico, tan taciturno, que 30 30 no se le conoce. — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
phlebos ekkenoumenên d eis
êtoi gar houtôs eis tauton, hôste tô tês en tois simois phlebos perati synaptein dyo hetera perata, to t' en tois Pg 148 Greek text kyrtois kai to tou cholêdochou porou, ê, ei mê houtô, chôran tina koinên epinoêsai chrê tôn triôn angeiôn hoion dexamenên tina, plêroumenên men hypo tês katô phlebos, ekkenoumenên d' eis te tous cholêdochous porous kai tas tês koilês aposchidas; kath' hekateran de tôn exêgêseôn atopa polla, peri hôn ei pantôn legoimi, lathoim' an emauton exêgêseis Erasistratou graphôn, ouch, hoper ex archês prouthemên, perainôn. — from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
pursued entirely different ends
He was made a philosopher by Kant's doctrine of the thing-in-itself, and if it had not been for this he would probably have pursued entirely different ends, with far better results, for he certainly possessed remarkable rhetorical talent. — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
pull extremely Dirddwys extremely
denoting vehemence or excess Diradd, a. without rank Diragfarn, a. without prejudice Diragfwriad, a. improvident; without predetermination Diragfyfyr, a. unpremedited Diragofal, a. improvident Diragor, a. without excellence Diragrith, a. without hypocrisy Diragwel, a. without foresight Diraid, a. unnecessary, useless Diran, a. without division Dirboen, n. extreme pain Dirboeni, v. to excruciate Dirchwant, n. ardent desire Dirchwant, profuse perspiration Dirdan, a. extremely distended Dirdra, n. an outrage Dirdynu, v. to pull extremely Dirddwys, extremely condensed Direb, n. a trite saying Direidi, n. mischievousness Direswm, a. irrational Dirfaint, n. extreme bulk Dirfarn, n. a harsh sentence Dirfawr, a. extremely large Dirfod, v. to be of necessity Dirganfod, v. to look earnestly Dirgariad, n. extreme love Dirgel, n. a secret place: a. secret, occult Dirgeledig, a. secreted, hidden Dirgeledigaeth, n. a mystery Dirgeledd, n. secrecy Dirgelfa, n. a secret place Dirgelgynghor, n. privy-council Dirgeli, n. secrecy, privacy Dirgeliad, n. a secreting Dirgelu, v. to secrete Dirgelwch, n. a secrecy Dirglwyf, n. extreme aching Dirglymu, v. to tie tightly Dirgrynu, v. to convulse Dirgwyn, n. extreme complaint Diriad, n. iteration; impulse Diraiad, a. mischievous Diried, a. unlucky; mischievous Diriedo, v. to become unlucky Dirinwedd, a. without virtue Dirio, v. to iterate; to urge Diriol, a. iterating; urgent Dirlais, n. an emphasis Dirmyg, n. irony; contempt Dirmygiad, n. a slighting Dirmygol, a. contemptuous Dirmygu, v. to contemn Dirmygus, a. contemptuous Dirnad, surmise, discernment; v. to surmise; to discern Dirnadiad, n. supposition Dirni, n. extremity, vivacity Dirnwyf, n. extreme vivacity Dirodres, a. without pomp Diroddef, v. to suffer greatly Dironi, v. to shed grain Dirperiad, n. a meriting Dirperu, v. to deserve Dirprwy, n. a supply Dirprwyad, n. a supplying Dirprwo, v. to supply Dirprwywr, n. one who supplies; an agent; an attorney Dirus, a. without starting Dirwaedd, n. an outcry Dirwaenu, v. to dissever Dirwan, a. extremely weak Dirwarthu, v. to cover Dirwasg, v. to press extremely Dirwen, n. a broad smile Dirwenu, v. to smile, to laugh Dirwest, n. abstinence, fast Dirwestfa, n. a fasting, a fast Dirwestu, v. to abstain, to fast Dirwgnach, a. without grumbling or murmuring Dirwy, n. penalty, a fine Dirwyad, n. a fining Dirwym, a. without restriction Dirwyn, n. violent passion Dirwyo, v. to fine Dirwyol, a. finable, penal Dirwystr, a. unobstructed Dirybudd, a. having no notice Diryfedd, a. not marvellous Diryfyg, a. unpresumptuous Dirym, a. without power; feeble Diryw, a. debased, degenerate Dis, a prefix synon. — from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards
And I saw that all had been the tormentors of their neighbors—malicious, dishonest, hypocrites, liars, rogues, calumniators, envious; that they had stolen, deceived, performed every disgraceful, every abominable action, these good fathers, these faithful wives, these devoted sons, these chaste daughters, these honest tradesmen, these men and women who were called irreproachable. — from A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I by Guy de Maupassant
et officiers a qu’il appartient iroient en chevauchée pour reuisiter en ladite Isle leurs debvoirs semblablement—C’est a sçauoir quant eux se sont representés deuant la porte de la dite prieureté et eux doiuent monter a cheval eux doivent auoir du pain et du vin abondamment et honestement seruis—Item pareillement eux doivent estre seruis et administrer de pain et de vin par la main du prevost de mon dit seigneur deuant la porte de l’eglise de St. pierre port lequel preuost doit estre présent a la dite chevauchée; et doit estre illeques une ronde table mise fournie et garnie bien et honnestement de doublier, pain et vin es coustages de mon dit Seigneur. — from Guernsey Folk Lore
a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir
It is hoped that the replanting of the mountain slopes, and of bleak and infertile plains, will diminish the frequency and violence of river inundations, prevent the formation of new torrents and check the violence of those already existing, mitigate the extremes of atmospheric temperature, humidity, and precipitation, restore dried-up springs, rivulets, and sources of irrigation, shelter the fields from chilling and from parching winds, arrest the spread of miasmatic effluvia, and, finally, furnish a self-renewing and inexhaustible supply of a material indispensable to so many purposes of domestic comfort, and to the successful exercise of every art of peace, every destructive energy of war. — from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh
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