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... English letters : - SIR , I hear this moment of your sad adventure . That water you fell in was not Hippocrene's water , otherwise it would have respected you . Indeed , I am concerned beyond expression for the danger you have been in ...
... English letters : - SIR , I hear this moment of your sad adventure . That water you fell in was not Hippocrene's water , otherwise it would have respected you . Indeed , I am concerned beyond expression for the danger you have been in ...
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... English language express identically . the same meaning . " Then , in the body of the work , he offers them articles like this , taken at random : - " Care , O.E. cearu ; O. Sax . kara = sorrow . " 1. Bitterness , want , need , burden ...
... English language express identically . the same meaning . " Then , in the body of the work , he offers them articles like this , taken at random : - " Care , O.E. cearu ; O. Sax . kara = sorrow . " 1. Bitterness , want , need , burden ...
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... English Dictionary , ' 1776 , does not give the word in either form , nor does Thomas Blount in his Glosso- graphia Anglicana Nova ; or , a Dictionary , ' & c . , 1707. In Torriano's edition of John Florio's Dictionary , Italian and English ...
... English Dictionary , ' 1776 , does not give the word in either form , nor does Thomas Blount in his Glosso- graphia Anglicana Nova ; or , a Dictionary , ' & c . , 1707. In Torriano's edition of John Florio's Dictionary , Italian and English ...
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... English diminutive of Somerset , in my younger days , " Sour as a nice . " Koantik is a diminutive of koant , grig was a common expression . A " grig " is which comes ( like the English the bullace ( Prunus spinosa ) , or quaint ...
... English diminutive of Somerset , in my younger days , " Sour as a nice . " Koantik is a diminutive of koant , grig was a common expression . A " grig " is which comes ( like the English the bullace ( Prunus spinosa ) , or quaint ...
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... English equivalent to this German proverb . " The early bird catches the worm approximates to it roughly , but the two do not appear to be used in quite the same way . If none can be found in English , I should be glad to hear of one in ...
... English equivalent to this German proverb . " The early bird catches the worm approximates to it roughly , but the two do not appear to be used in quite the same way . If none can be found in English , I should be glad to hear of one in ...
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