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used for full cantabile
Vn s II 'Cellos ] 8 may be used for full cantabile melodies extremely tense in character, and in forte passages for choice.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

unsorh free from care
unsorh free from care , Bl 217 29 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

use from frequent contact
But in so confined a space it would, in a short time, necessarily become foul, and unfit for use from frequent contact with the lungs.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

used for feeding cattle
The leaves are used for feeding cattle; the fibres of the leaves are formed into thread, cord, and ropes, and are also good material for paper-making; an extract from the leaves is used as a substitute for soap; slices of the withered flower-stem are used as razor-strops.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

unhappily for five centuries
The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

unberechtigte Forderung false claim
renzt; unbeschränkt unlimited unbegründet unfounded unbegründet; grundlos unfounded unbeladen unladen unbelasted unmortgaged unbelastet unencumbered unbelastet; frei von Schulden unencumbered unbelegte Wohnung unoccopied dwelling unbemerkt unnoticed Unberechenbarkeit incalculability unberechtigt unjustified unberechtigte Forderung false claim unberechtigter Erwerb illegal acquisition unbeschränkt absolute unbeschränkt open-end unbeschränkt unlimited unbeschränkt haftbar liable without limitation unbeschränkt haftender Partner general partner unbeschränkte Haftung unlimited liability
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

used for funeral ceremonies
A snake, cat, iguana ( Varanus ), blood-sucker (lizard), or monkey passing across the road, vociferous beasts such as jackals, dogs, and kites, loud crying from the east, buffalo, donkey, or temple bull, black grains, salt, liquor, hide, grass, dirt, faggots, iron, flowers used for funeral ceremonies, a eunuch, ruffian, outcaste, vomit, excrement, stench, any horrible figure, bamboo, cotton, lead, cot, stool or other vehicle carried with legs upward, dishes, cups, etc., with mouth downwards, vessels filled with live coals, which are broken and not burning, broomstick, ashes, winnow, hatchet.”
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

us from foreign countries
[176] The model of these institutions came to us from foreign countries; but the foreign differ from ours materially, because of the diversity of their origin.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

unsuitable food for children
It is probably true that milk heated to the boiling point is less fitted as food for the young child than raw milk, but, on the other hand, it has not been proven that properly pasteurized milk is an unsuitable food for children.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

utterly free from cant
“ Rosy , like all the rest of her stories, is bright and pure and utterly free from cant,—a book that children will read with pleasure and lasting profit.”— Boston Traveller.
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

uncommon fierce French Crocodiles
209 Canova, i. 1 Carabas, Marquis of , i. 24 Caricatures, titles of, vol. i.— ‘The French Bugabo,’ 50 , 51 ; ‘The Storm Rising, or the Republican Flotilla in Danger,’ 54 ; ‘The Consequences of a Successful French Invasion,’ 55 ; ‘We explain de Rights of Man to de Noblesse,’ 55 ; ‘We fly on the wings of the wind to save the Irish Catholics from persecution,’ 55 ; ‘Me teach de English Republicans to work,’ 55 ; ‘The Shrine of St. Anne’s Hill,’ 56 ; ‘Anticipation, Ways and Means, or Buonaparte really taken,’ 58 ; ‘Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt;—Destruction of Revolutionary Crocodiles;—or, The British Hero cleansing y e Mouth of y e Nile,’ 73 ; ‘The Gallant Nellson bringing home two uncommon fierce French Crocodiles from the Nile as a present to the King,’ 73 ; ‘A terrible Turk preparing a Mummy for a present to the Grand Nation,’ 74 ; ‘John Bull taking a luncheon, or British Cooks cramming old Grumble Gizzard with Bonne Chére,’ 75 ; ‘Destruction of the French Colossus,’ 76 ; 271 ‘High fun for John Bull, or the Republicans put to their last shift,’ 78 ; ‘Fighting for the Dunghill—or—Jack Tar settling Buonaparte,’ 79 ; ‘Buonaparte hearing of Nelson’s Victory, swears by his sword to extirpate the English from off the Earth.
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

unprotected fugitive from captivity
If there be a person against whom no intimidation should be used, it is the counsel for a poor, unprotected fugitive from captivity.—The question is, whether a man and his posterity forever, the fruit of his body, shall be slave or free.
— from Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851. by Charles G. (Charles Gideon) Davis

up from Forath comp
93 These caravans ( συνοδίαι ) appear on the Palmyrene inscriptions as fixed companies, which undertake the same journeys beyond doubt at definite intervals under their foreman ( συνοδιάρχης , Waddington, 2589, 2590, 2596); thus a statue is erected to such a one by “the merchants who went down with him to Vologasias” ( οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ κατελθόντες εἰς Ὀλογεσιάδα ἔνποροι , Waddington 2599 of the year 247), or “up from Forath (comp.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

used for free coloni
The only other class mentioned in the charter was that of the accolæ , the word used for 'free coloni' in the Bavarian laws.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm


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