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small number Individual paucity single
ANT: Fewness, a small number, Individual, paucity, single person.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

si nequeo ignoroque poeta salutor
mque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poeta salutor?
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

si nequeo ignoroque Poeta salutor
Descriptas servare vices operumque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, Poeta salutor?
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

shorthand notes important public speeches
I have often transcribed for the printer, from my shorthand notes, important public speeches in which the strictest accuracy was required, and a mistake in which would have been to a young man severely compromising, writing on the palm of my hand, by the light of a dark lantern, in a post-chaise and four, galloping through a wild country, and through the dead of the night, at the then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour. . . .
— from Queen Victoria by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne

some nickels I played several
It was Sunday morning, too, and having some "nickels," I played several games with them.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

should not I poor silly
If this calm season pleased my Prince, Whose fulness no need could evince, Why should not I, poor silly sheep, His hours, as well as practice, keep?
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

Saturday night it practically spoils
[102] You take the average one of 'em, and if he can't spend all he's got on Saturday night, it practically spoils his Sunday for him.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

successive nay in part simultaneous
There are three of them, it seems;—the first female souls that could ever manage to kindle, into flame or into smoke: in this or any other kind, that poor torpid male soul: those Mailly Sisters, three in number (I am shocked to hear), successive, nay in part simultaneous!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle


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