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Sicilia and Bohemia ACT I
A MARINER A GAOLER TIME, as Chorus HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione PAULINA, wife to Antigonus EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen MOPSA, shepherdess DORCAS, " Other Lords, Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, Servants, Shepherds, Shepherdesses SCENE: Sicilia and Bohemia ACT I. SCENE I. Sicilia.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

states and becomes as it
Of the sort of consciousness that is an object for later states, and becomes as it were permanent, he gives a good example: "Who of us, alas!
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

strong and brave And in
“Go forth,” he cried, “O strong and brave, And in their woe the Vánars save.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Seleuceia and Babylon and is
The least distance between them is somewhere about Seleuceia and Babylon, and is a little more than 200 stadia.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

stirring a bustling an intermeddling
beyond, beside, at Trachefn, adv. behind; again; afterwards Trachoddi, v. to vex extremely Trachuro, v. to beat extremely Trachwant, n. cupidity; lust Trachwanta, to desire extremely, to covet Trachwres, n. extreme heat Trachywed, a. very uniform Trad, n. what spreads out Tradilyn, v. to follow, to excess Tradwy, n. third day to come; adv. three days hence Tradynol, a. superhuman Tradd, n. extreme motion Traddiad, n. a scouring Traddod, n. a delivery over Traddodi, v. to deliver over Traddodiad, n. tradition Traddygiad, n. a transferring Traddygyd, v. to transfer Traed, n. feet Traeth, n. a tract, a sand Traethadur, n. one who treats Traethawd, n. a treatise Traetheg, n. a declamation Traethell, n. a sand bank Traethiad, n. a treating Traethodyn, n. a kind of verse Traethu, v. to relate; to treat Traf, n. a strain: a stir; a scour Trafael, extreme effort: travail Trafaelu, v. to travel, to toil Trafaes, n. stir, bustle; pains Trafel, n. press; hatchel Traflwnc, n. a guzzle, a gulp Traflyncu, v. to guzzle, to gulp Trafniad, n. a ranging; a revolving Trafnid, n. a range; a turn, a change Trafnidaeth, n. commerce, business Trafnidio, v. to exchange Trafnidiol, a. commercial Trafnig, a. mutable, declineable Trafnoldeb, n. mutableness Trafnu, v. to range; to revolve Trafod, n. a stirring, bustle Trafodaeth, n. act of stirring, a bustling, an intermeddling, a transaction Trafodi, v. to stir; to bustle, to strive, to intermeddle Trafodus, a. stirring, bustling Trafolio, v. to gormandise Trafu, v. to stir, to scour Trafyn, a stir, a bustle, a range Traff, n. a strewing, a scattering Trafferth, n. business, bustle Trafferthu, v. to bustle, to toil Trafferthus, a. bustling Traffiad, n. a spreading, a strewing Traffaith, a. very confused Traffu, v. to strew, to scatter Trag, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

sense as Beattie and in
I should think that Hume might fairly have laid as much claim to common sense as Beattie, and in addition to a critical reason (such as the latter did not possess), which keeps common sense in check and prevents it from speculating, or, if speculations are under discussion, restrains the desire to decide because it cannot satisfy itself concerning its own arguments.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

such a boat as I
But I could not see how this could be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a first-rate man of war among us; and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

small and bright and inflamed
I caught a momentary glimpse of his eyes, small and bright and inflamed.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

surgeons and boards and it
The claimant was examined once in 1882 and twice in 1884 by United States examining surgeons and boards, and it is stated that these examinations failed to reveal any disease or disability except disease of the eyes and an irritable heart, the result of indigestion.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

Solomon and Bart all in
The party was now all broken up and scattered—Phil, Pat, Solomon, and Bart, all in different directions, and none of them knowing where the others were.
— from Fire in the Woods Illustrated by James De Mille

sharp and bitter as it
It was then nearly seven o'clock in the evening, two days before Christmas, the ground all covered with snow and ice, and the cold extreme and very sharp and bitter, as it always is in Spain.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 09 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

strengthen and beautify and industriously
We should strengthen, and beautify, and industriously mould our bodies to be fit companions of the soul,—assist them to grow up like trees, and be agreeable and wholesome objects in nature.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

scarfs and bracelets and infinite
Of the Platanus, Lotus, Cornus, Acacia , &c. 1. Platanus , that so beautiful and precious tree, anciently sacred to 214:1 Helena, (and with which she crown’d the Lar , and Genius of the place) was so doated on by Xerxes, that Ælian and other authors tell us, he made halt, and stopp’d his prodigious army of seventeen hundred thousand soldiers, which even cover’d the sea, exhausted rivers, and thrust mount Athos from the Continent, to admire the pulcritude and procerity of one of these goodly trees; and became so fond of it, that spoiling both himself, his concubines, and great persons of all their jewels, he cover’d it with gold, gems, neck-laces, scarfs and bracelets, and infinite riches: In sum, was so enamour’d of it, that for some days, neither the concernment of his Grand Expedition, nor interest of honour, nor the necessary motion of his portentous army, could perswade him from it: He styl’d it his mistress, his minion, his Goddess; and when he was forc’d to part from it, he caus’d the figure of it to be stamp’d in a medal of gold, which he continually wore about him.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

said aloud but as if
La Peyrade shrugged his shoulders and said aloud, but as if to himself: “Always the same; crafty, crooked, never straightforward.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

sulphuric acid being added it
Potassa being added, it emits ammonia; and sulphuric acid being added, it gives off acetic vapours.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

sent a boat ashore in
He next peered out from under the tarpaulin and carefully scanned the beach by the light of the stars, to see whether Turnbull had sent a boat ashore in the hope of “catching a weasel asleep;” but his own canoe was the only craft visible, and he accordingly made his way down to the water’s edge, and, pushing her off, sprang noiselessly into her as she went afloat.
— from Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Harry Collingwood

stop a bullet and I
Even a hulking German will not stop a bullet, and I am sure your friend would not like a second-hand piece of lead.
— from The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman


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