A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - English language |
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... South . A spacious cave within its farmost part , Was hew'd and fashion'd by laborious art , Through the hill's hollow sides . Dryden . To his laborious youth consum'd in war , And lasting age , adorn'd and crown'd with peace . Prior ...
... South . A spacious cave within its farmost part , Was hew'd and fashion'd by laborious art , Through the hill's hollow sides . Dryden . To his laborious youth consum'd in war , And lasting age , adorn'd and crown'd with peace . Prior ...
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... South . It happened to be foul weather , so that the mariners cast their whole lading overboard to save themselves . L'Estrange . Why should he sink where nothing scein'd to press ? Flis lading little , and his ballast less . Swift . LA ...
... South . It happened to be foul weather , so that the mariners cast their whole lading overboard to save themselves . L'Estrange . Why should he sink where nothing scein'd to press ? Flis lading little , and his ballast less . Swift . LA ...
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... South . LIT , the termination of diminutive words from lyte , Saxon , little , small ; as , rivulet , a small stream ; hamlet , a ittle village . LETHARGICK . adj . [ lethargique , French , from lethargy . ] Sleepy by disease , be- yond ...
... South . LIT , the termination of diminutive words from lyte , Saxon , little , small ; as , rivulet , a small stream ; hamlet , a ittle village . LETHARGICK . adj . [ lethargique , French , from lethargy . ] Sleepy by disease , be- yond ...
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... south , because that at full moon they sometimes discover parts of her disk which are not discovered at other times . These kinds are called , the one a libration in longitude , and the other a libration in latitude . Besides this ...
... south , because that at full moon they sometimes discover parts of her disk which are not discovered at other times . These kinds are called , the one a libration in longitude , and the other a libration in latitude . Besides this ...
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... South . There are predictions of our Saviour recorded by the evangelists , which were not completed till after their deaths , and had no likelihood of being so when they were pronounced by our blessed Saviour . Addison . Or court a wife ...
... South . There are predictions of our Saviour recorded by the evangelists , which were not completed till after their deaths , and had no likelihood of being so when they were pronounced by our blessed Saviour . Addison . Or court a wife ...
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