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Reggimento e de Costumi
[4] See Del Reggimento e de' Costumi delle donne di Messer
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

recherche et de communication
Donc naturellement l'internet s'est imposé à moi comme outil de recherche et de communication, essentiellement.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

rachats et de concentrations
Nous assistons surtout à une série de faillites, de rachats et de concentrations de sociétés de services (principalement américaines)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

reject expel discard cut
eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser[Fr]; banish &c. (punish) 972; bounce *
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

responsabilidad exclusiva de cobrar
[5] esas casas la responsabilidad exclusiva de cobrar el importe de las ventas?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

revived every diplomatic conference
The theory of the Balance of Power was revived, every diplomatic conference was made a conflict between France and Great Britain on the one side and Germany on the other, and in 1911 the lives and the wealth of the British people were endangered, not to maintain any moral principle or any British interest, but to promote the material interests of French financiers in Morocco.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

rubies emeralds diamonds c
Upon that they wore a white plume, most prettily and minion-like parted by so many rows of gold spangles, at the end whereof hung dangling in a more sparkling resplendency fair rubies, emeralds, diamonds, &c., but there was such a sympathy betwixt the gallants and the ladies, that every day they were apparelled in the same livery.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

remarkable expression des clartés
Molière’s remarkable expression, des clartés de tout , which I applied in the last chapter to popular education, was used by him in reference to women.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

residente en dicha ciudad
“El mismo al mismo, dando cuenta con testimonio de la representacion que se le ha hecho por D. Antonio de Rosas, comerciante y residente en dicha ciudad; S to .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

regional environmental degradation caused
the undemarcated northern and western border with Uzbekistan is mined in many sections; continues to maintain a territorial dispute with Kyrgyzstan in Isfara Valley area; ongoing talks with China have failed to resolve the longstanding dispute over the indefinite boundary; Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan wrestle with sharing limited water resources and the regional environmental degradation caused by the shrinking of the Aral Sea Illicit drugs: major transshipment zone for heroin and opiates from Afghanistan going to Russia and Western Europe; limited illicit cultivation of narcotics crops, mostly for domestic consumption
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

regularly every day carried
The Prince and Sheridan in these idle moments had frequently remarked among the passers backwards and forwards, a young woman who regularly every day carried through the street a heavy load of crockery-ware, and who, the Prince frequently remarked, must be possessed of very great strength and dexterity to be able to bear so heavy a burden with so much apparent ease, and to carry it in the midst of such a crowd of passengers without ever stumbling.
— from Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi

Roulage et de Commission
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the palace of the archbishops was degraded to a livery stable and a horsedealer's lair, and the ancient arms of Sens on its front and the escutcheons of Lorraine and Bourbon, prelates of the Church, were covered by a great sign, " Maison de Roulage et de Commission ."
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

Rabbit e do crack
"B'er Rabbit, 'e do crack 'e heel; 'e do fair fly fum dey-dey.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris


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