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Resentment anger denunciation displeasure exasperation
SYN: Resentment, anger, denunciation, displeasure, exasperation, ire, wrath, protestation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

resided at Dorjiling during eighteen
Mr. J. Muller resided at Dorjiling during eighteen months of my stay in Sikkim, over the whole of which period his generous zeal in my service never relaxed; he assisted me in the reduction of many hundreds of my observations for latitude, time, and elevation, besides adjusting and rating my instruments; and I can recall no more pleasant days than those thus spent with these hospitable friends.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Rev A D D English
MYLNE, Rev. A., D. D.; English Grammar; 18mo, pp.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

rendent auprès des docteurs et
Abouzeyd states that at that time public writers were employed in recording the traditions of the island: "Le Royaume de Serendyb a une loi et des docteurs qui s'assemblent de temps en temps comme se réunissent chez nous les personnes qui recreillent les traditions du prophète, et les Indiens se rendent auprès des docteurs, et écrivent sous leurs dictée, la vie de leurs prophètes et les préceptes de leur loi."—REINAUD, Relation, &c., tom. i. p. 127.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

rap at de do en
En he tuck'n tole um dat w'en he come back, he'd rap at de do' en sing: "' I'll stay w'en you away, 'Kaze no gol' will pay toll! '
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

requires a detailed discussion even
The importance of the subject requires a detailed discussion, even at the risk of tediousness.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Raschig a diphenylmethane derivative e
Ztg., 1913, 73, 733.] considers resit a polymerised hydroxybenzylmethylene glycol anhydride; Raschig, a diphenylmethane derivative (e.g., dihydroxydiphenylmethane alcohol); Wohl [Footnote: Ber., 1912, 45, 2046.]
— from Synthetic Tannins, Their Synthesis, Industrial Production and Application by Georg Grasser


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