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thiarna Otfrid see Kluge s
thiarna (Otfrid); see Kluge (s.v. dirne ).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Teutonic origin see Kluge s
tuel , tuyel (F. tuyau ): Sp. tudel ; of Teutonic origin; see Kluge (s.v. düte ), and Weigand (s.v. zotte ).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

tombs of sixty kings Scots
By the tombs of sixty kings, Scots, Irish, and Norwegians, who reposed in holy ground.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

that one so kind so
do I say? How faint a word to express the misery of that bruised reed; misery so dark that a blind worm like myself is occasionally tempted to exclaim, Better had the world never been created than that one so kind, so harmless, and so mild, should have undergone such intolerable woe!
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

to obey So Kings should
And as their subjects ought them to obey, So Kings should feare and serve their God againe: If then ye would enjoy a happie raigne, Observe the Statutes of your heavenly King, And from his Law make all your Lawes to spring: Since his Lieutenant here ye should remaine, Reward the just, be stedfast, true and plaine, Represse the proud, maintayning aye the right, Walk alwayes so, as ever in his sight, Who guardes the godly, plaguing the prophane; And so ye shall in Princely virtues shine, Resembling right your mightie King Divine.
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

their orbits so Kant supposed
That is, as the planets of our solar system revolved about a common centre, and are kept from falling into each other or into the sun by the centrifugal force generated by their revolutions in their orbits, "so Kant supposed the stars to be kept apart by a revolution around some common centre."
— from A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts


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