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revolcaba en su propia sangre
[7] se revolcaba en su propia sangre.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Ronald E Shanin Pty South
Ronald E. Shanin (Pty.), South Africa.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

rift each shadowed pass slope
Every crag and stone, and line of wall, and tuft of gorse, was visible on the nearer hills, where the colouring was intense and untranslatable; and on the more distant mountains, we could see, as through a telescope, the scars on the steeps, the slaty shingles, and the straight cleavings down the sides, the old grey watercourses, threaded now like a silver line—those silver lines, after the storm, over all the craggy faces everywhere; we could see each green knoll set like an island among the grey boulders, each belt of mountain wood, each purple rift, each shadowed pass, slope and gully, and ghyll and scaur—we could count them all glistening in the sun, or clear and tender in the shade; while the sky was of a deep, pure blue above, and the cumulus clouds were gathered into masses white and dazzling as marble, and almost as solid-looking.
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

reasonable enlightened sagacious provident sober
Sensible, wise, prudent, discreet, considerate, rational, reasonable, enlightened, sagacious, provident, sober, sound, staid, solid, cool, politic.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

repetido En su profunda soledad
Y aquel extraño y único rüido 1270 Que de aquella mansión los ecos llena, En el suelo y los techos repetido, En su profunda soledad resuena; Y espira allá cual funeral gemido Que lanza en su dolor la ánima en pena, 1275 Que al fin del corredor largo y oscuro Salir parece de entre el roto muro.
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

return Ever she pleaded softly
Her dawning passion feared her lord's return, Ever she pleaded softly, "Let us go."
— from Last Poems: Translations from the Book of Indian Love by Laurence Hope

Religious Enthusiasm Sensitive Plant Sensitiveness
Affection Scabious, Unfortunate Love Scabious, Sweet, Widowhood Scarlet Lychnis, Brilliant Eye Shinus, Religious Enthusiasm Sensitive Plant, Sensitiveness Senvy, Indifference Shamrock, Light-heartedness Snakesfoot, Horror Snapdragon, "No."
— from Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole


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