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si Inday Putinsiyána kay ang

Nag-úlay si Inday Putinsiyána kay ang íyang láwas walà man malatà bísag napúlù ka túig siyang gilubung, Inday Potenciana was so pure that her body hadn’t decayed ten years after she was buried.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

spot in plain knitting and

Knot stitch (fig. 354 ).—This forms a raised spot in plain knitting and is executed as follows: knit 1, and leave it on the left-hand needle; put the stitch you have made with the right needle back on the left, and knit it off.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

shop in Paris known as

DELEUZE founded, along with his brother, in 1822, the drapers’ shop in Paris known as Au Bonheur des Dames .
— from A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson

small intestinal parasite known as

It has been only recently recognized that a large percentage of the invalidism and a great number of the deaths yearly in the southern portion of the United States are caused by a very small intestinal parasite known as the Necator americanus , or hook-worm.
— from Health on the Farm: A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris

sentiment its profound knowledge and

Grave, ponderous Germany, at that time the latest in acquiring self-consciousness, now succeeds in displaying the severity and grandeur of its religious sentiment, its profound knowledge, and its vague melancholy instincts in the sacred music of Sebastian Bach, anticipating the evangelical epic of Klopstock.
— from The Philosophy of Art by Hippolyte Taine

see if Polly knows anything

Now, I'm going to see if Polly knows anything about the real pin."
— from The Diamond Pin by Carolyn Wells

shown in pieces known as

Some of them are beautifully woven, yet the finest workmanship is shown in pieces known as “Kis-kilims” or girl’s kilims.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

Surrey is popularly known as

His servant, Nicholas Symcok, of London, has been robbed in the middle of June by highwaymen, one of whom, Richard Surrey, is popularly known as Richard atte Belle.
— from William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce

says is popularly known as

'This here frayed foliage which I hold in my hand,' he says, 'is popularly known as the mid-forenoon refreshment.
— from Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

some impossibly prolific king and

That they were in truth sisters was clear from the facial resemblance between them; their demeanour indicated that they were princesses, offspring of some impossibly prolific king and queen.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

suburbs if properly kept and

The vast extent of cemetery which would be required for London (suppose six or eight for the whole metropolis and its suburbs), if properly kept, and with such architectural decorations, and the grand and solemn shade of trees appropriate to the character of the ground, could scarcely fail to impress the reflective mind, and even to awe the more thoughtless.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

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