Ceci étant, sans se cantonner à une position durablement ancrée dans un mode passéiste, laissons à ce support le temps nécessaire pour acquérir ses lettres de noblesse. — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Ulysses pursue Dolon and
The others gave chase at once, and as a couple of well-trained hounds press forward after a doe or hare that runs screaming in front of them, even so did the son of Tydeus and Ulysses pursue Dolon and cut him off from his own people. — from The Iliad by Homer
un paseo de adelfas
5 Apoyadas sus manos en las del joven, se levantó, y sus cuerpos desaparecieron entre las frondosas ramas de un paseo de adelfas. — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
usual plain daughters and
So he took a room in the household of the usual small government clerk with the usual plain daughters, and continued the study of the language. — from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
unblemished perfect Diemyg a
Diegwyl, a. inopportune Diengyd, v. to flee, to escape Dieiddil, a. not feeble Dieiddo, a. without property Dieilig, a. unharmonious Dieinig, a. without agitation Dieiriach, a. without dispute Dieiriol, a. without intercession Dieisiau, a. unnecessary Dieisor, a. matchless Dieithr, a. without exception Dielusen, a. without charity Dielw, a. worthless; ignoble Diell, a. unblemished, perfect Diemyg, a. not overthrown Diemyth, a. infallible Dien, n. extinction, death: a. calm, without motion Dienaid, a. inanimate Dienbyd, a. without peril Diencil, a. not receding Dienig, a. sad; without activity Dienllib, a. irreproachable Diennill, a. unprofitable Dienw, a. anonymous Dienwaededig, a. uncircumcised Dienwaediad, a. uncircumcision Dienydd, n. violent death Dienyddiad, n. a putting to death Dienyddol, a. life-divesting Dienyddu, v. to put to death Dienyddwr, n. an executioner Dieppil, a. having no issue Dierbyn, a. without reception Diergryd, a. without trembling Diergryn, a. unshaken; fearless Dierlyd, a. unpursued Dierwin, a. not rough or harsh Diesgeulus, a. not intelligent Diesgud, a. not nimble — from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards
up Pompey during almost
Thence he returned to Rome, and crossing the sea to Macedonia, blocked up Pompey during almost four months, within a line of ramparts of prodigious extent; and at last defeated him in the battle of Pharsalia. — from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
undergone partial distortion and
What holds true for the undistorted anxiety dream we may assume to be true also of those dreams which have undergone partial distortion, and of the other dreams of aversion whose painful impressions very probably denote approximations of anxiety. — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
under parts dark and
how paint the aspect of those woods and rocks in this medium—their under parts dark and wild, the upper coloured with red tints, by that light which the reflecting powers of the waters doubled? — from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
[Pg 160] An extract from the bill will give a fair idea of the quality of the fooling: “First time in this or any other country, a new comic burlesque ballet, entitled La Mosquito , in which Monsieur Mitchell will make his first appearance as une Première Danseuse , and show his agility in a variety of terpsichorean efforts of all sorts in the genuine Bolerocachucacacavonienne style.... — from Curiosities of the American Stage by Laurence Hutton
unless perchance dogs and
Doom, like a black cat hunting mice, speedily caught them all, unless, perchance, dogs and motors were kinder than we fear to Cinder, who, one winter day, after her morning saucer of milk, struck blithely out into the sunshine from the best of homes and never, though search, inquiry and advertisement did their utmost, was heard of again. — from Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
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shows you passages from notable books where your word is accidentally (or perhaps deliberately?)
spelled out by the first letters of consecutive words.
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