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sê in servitûtem trâdidit et dîxit
Quae 3 ubi audîvit, Herculês ad illam urbem statim contendit et Eurystheô sê in servitûtem trâdidit et dîxit, "Quid prîmum, Ô rêx, mê facere iubês?"
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

sē in servitūtem trādidit et dīxit
Eurystheō sē in servitūtem trādidit et dīxit, “Quid prīmum, Ō rēx, mē facere iubēs?”
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

s interest since the early days
It seems clear that Shakespeare's interest, since the early days when under Marlowe's influence he wrote Richard III. , has not been directed to the more extreme or terrible forms of evil.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

shook it several times each day
The half of this mixture I poured into a white crystal phial, exposed it to the beams of the sun, and shook it several times each day; the other half I set in a dark place.
— from Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

succeed in suppressing the essential differences
[45] We have demonstrated above that the unity here attained is purely verbal, since we cannot succeed in suppressing the essential differences of things.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

So I stood twice every day
So I stood twice every day fastened to a post by a thong of metal.
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

suspicion I should the easier detect
"Determined, however, to watch this man, I said nothing of the loss of my ring, thinking if I appeared to have no suspicion I should the easier detect him.
— from Mystery and Confidence: A Tale. Vol. 3 by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard

Surgham I saw the entire dervish
At noon, from the slopes of Jebel Surgham, I saw the entire dervish army some three miles off advancing towards us, the Khalifa's black flag surrounded by his Mulazimin (body-guard) being plainly discernible.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh


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