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sherd C CAECILIVS VINDEX
The following list, however, comprises all the Latin names upon the sherd:— C. CAECILIVS VINDEX M. AIMILIVS VINDEX SEX.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

sometimes called complete verbs
Verbs of this kind are sometimes called complete verbs , or verbs of complete predication .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

saffroned chaperoones came vp
Yellow starch must have come into fashion not long before this play was acted, for in the Owle’s Allmanacke , published in 1618, it is said: ‘Since yellow bandes and saffroned chaperoones came vp, is not above two yeeres past.’
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

see Cicero contra Verrem
And see Cicero, contra Verrem, iii. 46, 47.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

SHERIDAN Cedar Creek Va
CITY POINT, VA., October 14, 1864.—12.30 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Cedar Creek, Va.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

sixth century cf V
The collection of Canons approved by the Council of Chalcedon, translated into Latin by Dionysius Exiguus (early in the sixth century, cf. V, 21, p.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

S2 C cowrteby Voc
Courte-py , sb. short coat or cloak, PP, S2, C; cowrteby , Voc.; kourteby , P; courte-pies , pl. , PP; court-pies , PP.—Cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

says Codinus c v
Note 45 ( return ) [ Tagerman is the Arabic name of an interpreter, (D'Herbelot, p. 854, 855;), says Codinus, (c. v. No. 70, p. 67.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

some curious cooking vessels
I noticed here, as several times previously 'en route,' some curious cooking vessels from Iskardo.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

seasoned crumbs creamed vegetables
This method of cooking eggs may be endlessly varied by filling the cups half full of minced meat, fish, seasoned crumbs, creamed vegetables, or anything else which combines well with eggs.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

some chosen comrade volunteered
He thought out the details of critical interviews with commanding officers in which he with some chosen comrade volunteered for incredibly dangerous enterprises.
— from Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham

Sleeping Car Company via
He was going to it by the train de luxe of the International Sleeping Car Company, via Trieste and Vienna.
— from A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad

she can colour vacuity
At a breath she can modify, alter, obliterate, or restore; at a breath she can colour vacuity with rainbow hues—crown the cliff with its castle—swing the drawbridge over the gulf profound—through a night of woods roll the river along on its moonlit reach—by fragmentary cinctures of mist and cloud, so girdle one mountain that it has the power of a hundred—giant rising above giant, far and wide, as if the mighty multitude, in magnificent and triumphant disorder, were indeed scaling heaven.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

six chancery courts varying
For three pence, at any law stationer's, one can buy a list of the leaders in the six chancery courts, varying in number from three to five and aggregating twenty-five, and if a solicitor wishes a [41] leader for his junior in any of these courts he must retain one out of the limited list available or pay the "special" fee.
— from A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London Courts by Thomas Leaming


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