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under different pretexts
I have been three times in his rooms, twice waiting for him under different pretexts and leaving before he came.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Ulysses deriding Polyphemus
Titian, 53 , 154 Tolstoy's definition of art, 19 Tone, meaning of the word, 121 , 187 , 208 Tone values, variety of, 187 Toned paper, drawing on, 125 296 Tones, large flat, the effect of, 207 Touch, the sense of, 40 Trafalgar Square lions, the, 78 Trees, the masses of, 196 Turner, 163 , 205 , 214 , 223 Types, lifelessness of, 134 U "Ulysses deriding Polyphemus," Turner's, 214 Unity and variety, 132 Unity of line, 144 V "Vale of Best," Millais', 196 Value, meaning of the word as applied to a picture, 188 Values of tone drawing, the, 122 Van Dyck, his use of the straight line, 151 Variety in symmetry, 142 "Variety in Unity," 136 "Varying well," 136 Velazquez, 53 , 60 , 161 Venetian painters, and the music of edges, 193 Venetians, the, their use of straight lines, 151 Venetians, system and principles of design of the, 217 "Venus, Mercury, and Cupid," Correggio's, 206 Vertical, the, associated with the sublime, 149 Vertical lines, feeling associated with, 182 Vision, 38 Visual blindness, 47 Visual memory, the, 256 W Ward, the animal painter, 124 Warm colours, 224 Watteau, the charm of, 209 Watts, G.F., portraits by, 249 Watts' use of the right angle, 156 Windsor, Holbein's portraits at, 247 Whistler, a master of tone, 190 , 222 , 251 White casts, drawing from, 99 White chalk, 180 White paint, 191 White pastel, 280
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

unum de pomis
p. 241): "Implevimus unum veringal de biscocto et platellum unum de pomis et aliis fructibus."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

un droit particulier
Je disais en réponse à une de vos questions: "Je me demande s'il faut un droit particulier pour le web.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

up de place
'I was a-stannin' heah, an' de dog was a-stannin' heah; de dog he went for de shell, gwine to pick a fuss wid it; but I didn't; I says, “Jes' make you'seff at home heah; lay still whah you is, or bust up de place, jes' as you's a mind to, but I's got business out in de woods, I has!”
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

upward downward Purging
how they cause melancholy Parties affected in religious melancholy Passions and perturbations causes of melancholy; how they work on the body; their divisions; how rectified and eased Passions of lovers Patience a cure of misery Patient, his conditions that would be cured; patience, confidence, liberality, not to practise on himself; what he must do himself; reveal his grief to a friend Pennyroyal good against melancholy Perjury of lovers Persuasion a means to cure love-melancholy; other melancholy Phantasy, what Philippus Bonus, how he used a country fellow Q. Quantity of diet cause; cure of melancholy R. Rational soul Reading Scriptures good against melancholy Recreations good against melancholy Redness of the face helped Regions of the belly Relation or hearing a cause of love-melancholy Religious melancholy a distinct species its object; causes of it; symptoms; prognostics; cure; religious policy, by whom Repentance, its effects Retention and evacuation causes of melancholy; rectified to the cure Rich men's discontents and miseries; their prerogatives Riot in apparel, excess of it, a great cause of love-melancholy Rivers in love Rivals and co-rivals Roots censured Rose cross-men's or Rosicrucian's promises Philosophers censured; their errors Philters cause of love-melancholy; how they cure melancholy Phlebotomy cause of melancholy; how to be used, when, in melancholy; in head melancholy Phlegmatic melancholy signs Phrenzy's description Physician's miseries; his qualities if he be good Physic censured; commended; when to be used Physiognomical signs of melancholy Pictures good against melancholy; cause of love-melancholy Plague's effects Planets inhabited Plays more famous Pleasant palaces and gardens Pleasant objects of love Pleasing tone and voice a cause of love-melancholy Poetical cures of love-melancholy Poets why poor Poetry a symptom of lovers Politician's pranks Poor men's miseries; their happiness; they are dear to God Pope Leo Decimus, his scoffing Pork a melancholy meat Possession of devils Poverty and want causes of melancholy, their effects; no such misery to be poor Power of spirits Predestination misconstrued, a cause of despair Preparatives and purgers for melancholy Precedency, what stirs it causeth Precious stones, metals, altering melancholy Preventions to the cure of jealousy Pride and praise causes of melancholy Priests, how they cause religious melancholy Princes' discontents Prodigals, their miseries; bankrupts and spendthrifts, how punished Profitable objects of love Progress of love-melancholy exemplified Prognostics or events of love-melancholy; of despair; of jealousy; of melancholy Prospect good against melancholy Prosperity a cause of misery Protestations and deceitful promises of lovers Pseudoprophets, their pranks; their symptoms Pulse, peas, beans, cause of melancholy Pulse of melancholy men, how it is affected Pulse a sign of love-melancholy Purgers and preparatives to head melancholy Purging simples upward; downward Purging, how cause of melancholy S. Saints' aid rejected in melancholy Salads censured Sanguine melancholy signs Scholars' miseries Scilla or sea-onion, a purger of melancholy Scipio's continency Scoffs, calumnies, bitter jests, how they cause melancholy; their antidote Scorzonera, good against melancholy Scripture misconstrued, cause of religious melancholy; cure of melancholy Seasick, good physic for melancholy Self-love cause of melancholy, his effects Sensible soul and its parts Senses, why and how deluded in melancholy Sentences selected out of humane authors Servitude cause of melancholy; and imprisonment eased Several men's delights and recreations Severe tutors and guardians causes of melancholy Shame and disgrace how causes of melancholy, their effects Sickness for our good Sighs and tears symptoms of love-melancholy Sight a principal cause of love-melancholy Signs of honest love Similar parts of the body Simples censured proper to melancholy: fit to be known; purging melancholy upward; downward, purging simples Singing a symptom of lovers; cause of love-melancholy Sin the impulsive cause of man's misery Single life and virginity commended; their prerogatives Slavery of lovers Sleep and waking causes of melancholy; by what means procured, helped Small bodies have greatest wits Smelling what Smiling a cause of love-melancholy Sodomy Soldiers most part lascivious Solitariness cause of melancholy; coact, voluntary, how good; sign of melancholy Sorrow its effect; a cause of melancholy; a symptom of melancholy; eased by counsel Soul defined, its faculties; ex traduceations , as some hold Spices how causes of melancholy Spirits and devils, their nature; orders; kinds; power, &c. Spleen its site; how misaffected cause of melancholy Sports Spots in the sun Spruceness a symptom of lovers Stars, how causes or signs of melancholy; of love-melancholy; of jealousy Stepmother, her mischiefs Stews, why allowed Stomach distempered a cause of melancholy Stones like birds, beasts, fishes, &c. Strange nurses, when best Streets narrow Study overmuch cause of melancholy; why and how; study good against melancholy Subterranean devils Supernatural causes of melancholy Superstitious effects, symptoms; how it domineers Surfeiting and drunkenness taxed Suspicion and jealousy symptoms of melancholy; how caused Swallows, cuckoos, &c., where are they in winter Sweet tunes and singing causes of love-melancholy Symptoms or signs of melancholy in the body; mind; from stars, members; from education, custom, continuance of time, mixed with other diseases; symptoms of head melancholy; of hypochondriacal melancholy; of the whole body; symptoms of nuns', maids', widows' melancholy; immediate causes of melancholy symptoms; symptoms of love-melancholy; symptoms of a lover pleased; dejected; Symptoms of jealousy; of religious melancholy; of despair Synteresis Syrups T. Tale of a prebend Tarantula's stinging effects Taste what Temperament a cause of love-melancholy Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy Terrestrial devils Terrors and affrights cause melancholy Theologasters censured The best cure of love-melancholy is to let them, have their desire Tobacco approved, censured Toleration, religious Torments of love Transmigration of souls Travelling commended, good against melancholy; for love-melancholy especially Tutors cause melancholy U. Uncharitable men described Understanding defined, divided Unfortunate marriages' effects Unkind friends cause melancholy Unlawful cures of melancholy rejected Upstarts censured, their symptoms Urine of melancholy persons Uxorii V. Vainglory described a cause of melancholy Valour and courage caused by love Variation of the compass, where Variety of meats and dishes cause melancholy Variety of mistresses and objects a cure of melancholy Variety of weather, air, manners, countries, whence, &c. Variety of places, change of air, good against melancholy Vegetal soul and its faculties Vegetal creatures in love Veins described Venus rectified Venery a cause of melancholy Venison a melancholy meat Vices of women Violent misery continues not Violent death, event of love-melancholy; prognostic of despair; by some defended; how to be censured Virginity, by what signs to be known; commended Virtue and vice, principal habits of the will Vitex or agnus castus good against love-melancholy W. Waking cause of melancholy; a symptom; cured Walking, shooting, swimming, &c. good against melancholy Preface | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Notes 4414 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

un derecho pecuniario
Algunos países todavía imponen a los educandos un derecho pecuniario que se paga al recibir la matrícula.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

up degenerate perishing
A pessimistic attitude of mind and a pessimistic doctrine and ecstatic Nihilism, may in [Pg 423] certain circumstances even prove indispensable to the philosopher—that is to say, as a mighty form of pressure, or hammer, with which he can smash up degenerate, perishing races and put them out of existence; with which he can beat a track to a new order of life, or instil a longing for nonentity in those who are degenerate and who desire to perish.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

under different political
Diderot would no doubt have been a great poet in a time more favourable to art; and Goethe, under different political influences, might have been an eminent philosopher.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

under deep purple
There was a red light in the west under deep purple clouds.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

upon distinguished personages
Cures in the modern time of any kind are likely to be much more effective if they come from a distance and, above all, if they have some connection with royalty, or have been tried with favorable results upon distinguished personages.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

under different Pressures
Construction of Thermometer 98 Method of graduating it 99 Freezing and boiling Points 99 Latent Heat of Water 101 Quantity of Heat necessary to convert Ice into Water, first noticed by Dr. Black 101 Examination of the analogous Effects produced by the continued Application of Heat to Water in the liquid State 102 Process of Boiling 104 Reconversion of Steam into Water 104 Conversion of Water into Steam 105 Latent Heat of Steam 107 Boiling Point varies 108 Different in different Places 109 Inquiry whether a Diminution of Pressure will produce a corresponding Effect on the boiling Point 112 Table showing the Temperature at which Water will boil under different Pressures of the Atmosphere 113 Mechanical Force of Steam 115 Facts to be observed in 117 CHAP.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

Ueber d P
Weber, Ueber d. P[=a]ras[=i]prakaça d. K[r.][s.][n.]ad[=a]sa, as well as in his R[=a]jas[=u]ya, V[=a]japeya, Vedische Beiträge, etc., has treated of the relations with Persia (Fables, IS. iii. 327).
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

uncommonly difficult passages
She had been surprisingly crude when he first knew her; capable of making the most awkward inferences, of plunging through thin ice, of recklessly undressing her emotions; but she had acquired, under the discipline of his reticences and evasions, a skill almost equal to his own, and perhaps more remarkable in that it involved keeping time with any tune he played and reading at sight some uncommonly difficult passages.
— from The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 by Edith Wharton

under delusive promises
[1054] Thus for ten years the New Christians of a large part of Spain had been harried and impoverished under delusive promises of exemption and, of the moneys thus extorted, but little reached either the crown or the Inquisition.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

Usage du Planétaire
cit., refers to a work titled ‘Usage du Planétaire ou sphère mouvante de Copernic, qui se trove chez Fortin, ingénieur-mécanicien du Roi.’
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

upon Dom Pedro
Now, however, his companion conceived it possible that he intended to retain his hold upon Dom Pedro and secure the map as well.
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss


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