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skewer a broach a knitting
nying, negative Gwadu, v. to deny; to disown Gwadd, n. a mole Gwaddeg, n. a spout; a scuttle Gwaddod, n. sediment, lees Gwaddodi, v. to cast a sedement Gwaddodlyd, a. feculent, dreggy Gwaddol, n. a portion; money Gwaddoli, v. to dower Gwae, n. woe Gwaed, n. blood or gore Gwaedboer, n. blood-spitting Gwaedgi, n. a blood-hound Gwaedglais, n. blood stripe Gwaedgoll, n. bloodshed Gwaediad, n. a bleeding Gwaedled, bloody, blood-stained Gwaedlif, n. a bloody-flux Gwaedlin, n. an issue of blood Gwaedlyd, a. bloody; cruel Gwaedlydu, to stain with blood Gwaedlys, n. blood-wort Gwaedneu, n. a blood issue Gwaedog, abounding with blood Gwaedogaeth, n. sanguinity Gwaedogen, n. a blood pudding, a black pudding Gwaedoli, v. to sanguify Gwaedol, sanguineous of blood Gwaedoliaeth, n. kindred by blood, consanguinity Gwaedraidd, a. running with blood Gwaedrod, n. a course of blood Gwaedu, v. to bleed, to let blood Gwaedd, n. a cry, a shout Gwaeddan, n. a bawler Gwaeddfan, a. loud shouting Gwaeddgreg, a. hoarse shouting Gwaeddi, v. to cry, to shout Gwaeddiad, n. a crying out Gwaeddolef, n. a cry a woe Gwaefyd, n. a state of woe Gwäeg, n. a fibula; a clasp Gwäegiad, n. a buckling Gwäegu, v. to buckle; to clasp Gwael, a. low, vile; poorly Gwaeledd, n. vileness; misery Gwaeleddu, v. to make wretched Gwaelni, vileness; wretchedness Gwaelod, n. a bottom, a base Gwaelodi, v. to bottom Gwaelodiad, n. a bottoming Gwaelodion, n. bottoms Gwaelu, v. to grow low or poor; to become faint Gwaeddol, a. crying, shouting Gwaeu, v. to make vile Gwäell, gwëyll, n. a skewer, a broach; a knitting needle; a spindle.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

severall Angell bee A kind
Fill any former ranke or make a new; Whether it take a name nam'd there before, Or be a name it selfe, and order more [pg 289] 5 Then was in heaven till now; (for may not hee Bee so, if every severall Angell bee A kind alone?)
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

shoots at butts and kills
As when a man shoots at butts and kills a man, it is not felony et il ser come n'avoit l'entent de luy tuer; and so of a tiler on a house who with a stone kills a man unwittingly, it is not felony. /2/
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

speak and becomes a kind
Despair, pushed far enough, completes the circle, so to speak; and becomes a kind of genuine productive hope again.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

squares and by amputating Kung
By destroying and eliminating the hooks and lines, by discarding the compasses and squares, and by amputating Kung Chui's fingers, the human race will ultimately succeed in constraining his ingenuity,"—his high spirits, on perusal of this passage, were so exultant that taking advantage of the exuberance caused by the wine, he picked up his pen, for he could not repress himself, and continued the text in this wise: "By burning the flower, (Hua-Hsi Jen) and dispersing the musk, (She Yüeh), the consequence will be that the inmates of the inner chambers will, eventually, keep advice to themselves.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

seat And born a king
In Alba he shall fix his royal seat, And, born a king, a race of kings beget.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

stood at bay at Kir
But Moab stood at bay at Kir-Haraseth (Kerak), his strongest fortress, six miles from Ar or Rabbah, and ten miles east of the southern end of the Dead Sea.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

surveying all behind and knowing
Down in the valleys we praised God, but tears and mysteries sometimes saddened our songs; but now on the summit surveying all behind, and knowing by a blessed eternity of experience to what it has led, even an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away, we shall praise Him with a new song for ever.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

St Andrews by Alexander king
Nov. p. 97, Lond. 1623; cf. also p. 134) tells us of an election, in 1107, of a bishop of St. Andrews "by Alexander, king of Scotland, the clergy, and the people.
— from The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns by Robert S. (Robert Sangster) Rait

she added blushing Albert knows
Then she added, blushing: "Albert knows all about it, and he says he doesn't mind."
— from Brothers: The True History of a Fight Against Odds by Horace Annesley Vachell

stump as big as King
Mr. Tortoise and Mr. Fox came along and stopped to see the job, and helped grandpaw now and then when his arm got tired, and by evening there was a pile of tails by that stump as big as King Lion's house, and there never was such a call for [Pg 116] the all-healing ointment as there was that night in the Big Deep Woods.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book Being a continuation of stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

stateroom and berths and keep
"My father's wish is that you go to your stateroom and berths and keep your word of honor given to him."
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Sondheim and Bromberg and Kastner
“I shall kill Sondheim and Bromberg and Kastner, I hope.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

stables and byres and kennels
Behind it one could see the roofs of other buildings which joined it, and beyond it again were stables, and byres, and kennels, and barns, and the countless other offices which a great house needs, filling up the rest of the space the stockade enclosed.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

South African bird afterwards known
This bird-name was "given by Le Vaillant in the form drongeur to a South African bird afterwards known as the Musical Drongo, Dicrurus musicus, then extended to numerous . . .
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

s always been a kind
Sister Eliza's very lavish with her flowers; she's always been a kind sister, too," said Mrs. Bickford vaguely.
— from The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett


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