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SYN Sum complete solidity consolidate incorporate
SYN: Sum, complete, solidity, consolidate, incorporate, unite, combine, mix, blend.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

S Sandford Cameron St C Ingham
Edward B. S. Bingham John C. F. Borrett Lionel H. Shore Edward Smyth-Osbourne Lieutenant Cecil S. Sandford Cameron St. C. Ingham Hugh H. G. Begbie Lieutenant R.N.R. George ff.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

sidewalk said confidentially Say cap if
As they slowed up at the upper end of the street and began to turn, a man on the sidewalk said, confidentially: "Say, cap', if you handle that old rack o' bones just right, he'll distance anything on this road.
— from Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland

SPONGE SPONGIA CERATA S COMPRESSA is
Compressed or WAXED SPONGE ( SPONGIA CERATA , S. COMPRESSA ) is sponge which has been dipped into melted wax and then compressed between two iron plates until cold.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

S Sebastiano containing some curious inscriptions
Maria Pallara or S. Sebastiano , containing some curious inscriptions relating to events which have occurred here, and—in the tribune, frescoes, of the Saviour in benediction with four saints, and below, two other groups representing the Virgin with saints and angels, placed, as we learn by the inscription beneath, by one Benedict—probably an abbot.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

some sudden calamity should come in
I know that every penny under the wise direction of the Red Cross will help to make some poor soldier more comfortable; or if some sudden calamity should come in this country, before it was sent away, your little fund might help to save dozens of lives."
— from The Little Colonel's Hero by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

sojourned so comfortably so contentedly in
In that transmuted Rome Via del Gambero, at least, was wholly unchanged, and there was not a wrinkle in the front of the house where we had sojourned so comfortably, so contentedly, in our incredible youth.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells


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