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una naturaleza vigorosa
si en la soledad hay algunos genios que se recreen en contemplar las bellezas salvajes de una naturaleza vigorosa, magnífica y fecunda, yo les pido que sean propicios para vosotros, y que os preserven de la barbarie de los hombres.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

up new vistas
Still, supposing he had his father’s gift as he more than suspected, it opened up new vistas in his mind such as Lady Fingall’s Irish industries, concert on the preceding Monday, and aristocracy in general.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

unsigefæst not victorious
= unsȳf- unsigefæst not victorious , ÆL 18 44 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

up now very
The Rev. Paul Ford looked up now, very quickly.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

un nouveau vocable
aux troupiers pour inventer un nouveau vocable.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

uninsurable nicht verteilter
gbar unassignable nicht übertragbar untransferable nicht umwandelbar inconvertible nicht umwandelbar non-convertible nicht unterscheidungskräftige Zeichen non-distinctive marks nicht verbürgt not authenticated nicht verfügbar unavailable nicht verfügbar sein not be available nicht verschwiegen indiscreet nicht versicherbar non-insurable nicht versicherbar uninsurable nicht verteilter Gewinn undivided profits nicht vertrauenswürdig untrustworthy nicht voll bezahlt partly paid nicht voll einbezahlte Aktien partly paid shares nicht vollstreckbar non-enforceable nicht vollstreckbar unenforceable nicht weniger als; mindestens not less than nicht zollpflichtig non-dutiable nicht zu verwirklichen impracticable nicht zu verwirklichen unrealizable nicht zugelassene
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

unpunished nor virtues
For if we hold unshaken those conclusions which we lately reached, thou shall learn that, by the will of Him of whose realm we are speaking, the good are always strong, the bad always weak and impotent; that vices never go unpunished, nor virtues unrewarded; that good fortune ever befalls the good, and ill fortune the bad, and much more of the sort, which shall hush thy murmurings, and stablish thee in the strong assurance of conviction.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

upon Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch
Probably what pleased her was that the latter in her turn seemed almost fawning upon Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch and was more gracious to him than to anyone.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

underwent no variation
In Rome the principles of the Government underwent no variation, although the Consuls were changed every year, because the Senate, which was an hereditary assembly, possessed the directing authority.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

useful nor very
The system is plausible, ingenious, methodical, mostly true, and somewhat elaborate; but it is neither very useful nor very accurate.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

up new vistas
There, in the heavy, noisome air, he expounded the Æneid with German scholarship and French subtlety; there, by his literary and moral pessimism, he afflicted M. Roux, of Bordeaux, his best pupil; there, he opened up new vistas, whose aspect was terrifying; there, one evening he pronounced those words now become famous, but which ought rather to have perished, stifled in the shadow of the vault: “Fragments of differing origins, soldered clumsily on to each other, 167 made up the Iliad and the Odyssey .
— from The Elm-tree on the Mall by Anatole France

up no violated
From that instant Kendall had no doubts, conjured up no violated proprieties.
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland

Under Nicholas V
Under Nicholas V. Fray Miguel, the Inquisitor of Aragon, gave mortal offence to some high dignitaries in following certain papal instructions, whereupon they maltreated him and kept him in prison for nine months.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

us nineteen volumes
Here we have before us nineteen volumes, and in those volumes, as Zola himself says, tant de boue, tant de larmes.
— from So Runs the World by Henryk Sienkiewicz

uttering no vague
"I am uttering no vague threat.
— from True Riches; Or, Wealth Without Wings by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

United Nations views
The United States and the United Nations; views on postwar relations.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office


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