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Unsay nakakaun Unsa may
Unsay nakakaun? Unsa may kan-un, ímung kigul, nga walà may nahibilis kan-un!
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

uruy níya ug mukúyug
Sabút uruy níya ug mukúyug ba siya, I don’t know about him, if he is going.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

used no underhand means
He used no underhand means.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

ultra nisi ut mittatur
Uos sint salt eorthes thæt gif salt forworthes in thon gesælted bith to estis sal terrae quod si sal euanuerit in quo sallietur ad nowihte vel nænihte mæge ofer thæt buta thæt gesended bith vel geworpen út nihilum ualet ultra nisi ut mittatur foras and getreden bith from monnum gie aron vel sint leht middangeardes et conculcetur ab hominibus 14.
— from English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

universally no unpopular measure
Generally, perhaps universally, no unpopular measure in a free government, particularly the English, ought ever to pass.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

ut nihil usquam moveatur
[415] Ea res incussit......vulgo terrorem ut nihil usquam moveatur.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

unbaptised ne unshriven may
Ever sithence that tempestuous night, the deep green sea lies heavy on the bosom of the lost land; and no man of unpure heart, nor of evil life, ne unbaptised, ne unshriven, may see nor hear.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

undue numbers unfortunate men
At the best the result is to turn out native pastors and schoolmasters in undue numbers, unfortunate men who have no proper professional field and no footing in the society to which their education might entitle them.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan


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