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Slang like everything else changes
Slang, like everything else, changes much in the course of time; and though but fifteen years have elapsed since this Dictionary was first introduced to the public, alterations have since then been many and frequent in the subject of which it treats.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

stories like everything else can
Again, such as they are, these stories, like everything else, can both harm and profit, according to the disposition of the listener.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

site libraire est en cours
- Le troisième site - "libraire" - est en cours de réalisation.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

se llama en el comercio
—Tiene Ud. el que se llama en el comercio
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

su lugarteniente en el cargo
Dejaba en Buenos [267] Aires, como su lugarteniente, en el cargo de comandante general de armas, al coronel Dorrego.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

soul leprosis extraneis et commorantibus
In 1528, James Houston, sub-dean of Glasgow, founder of the Lady College (now the Tron Kirk) of Glasgow, ordered twelve pennies to be distributed yearly, on the anniversary of his death, to the lepers beside the Bridge of Glasgow, and others, who should appear in the churchyard of the Lady College to say orisons for his soul—“ leprosis extraneis et commorantibus juxta Pontem Glasguensem comparentibus in cimiterio prefecto Ecclesie Collegiate oraturis Deum .”—( Lib. Coll.
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

separation like everything else connected
This enforced “separation,” like everything else connected with Anabaptism, differed considerably in the way in which it was carried into practice.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

Schools like everything else cannot
Schools, like everything else, cannot be created at command.
— from Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold (John Harold) Putman

See Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses
[Footnote 16: See Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, vol.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

S Let em eat cake
KAUFMAN, GEORGE S. Let 'em eat cake; a musical play, by George S. Kaufman & Morrie Ryskind.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

s Lass etc etc Cared
By Emma Leslie, Author of "A Sailor's Lass," etc., etc. Cared for; or, The Orphan Wanderers.
— from How a Farthing Made a Fortune; or "Honesty is the best policy" by C. E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Bowen

sancti Leonardi Episcopi et confessoris
tunc puer non etatis vnius anni Coronatus fuit die sancti Leonardi Episcopi et confessoris apud Westm’ anno regni sui viij o .
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous


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