Webster's Complete dictionary of the English language. Thoroughly revised and improved, by C.A. Goodrich and N. Porter1884 |
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... ladies . To the Hon . GEORGE P. MARSH , the Editor is under obligations for some valuable suggestions in respect to the principles which should be followed in the preparation of a popular English Dictionary . It is not practicable to ...
... ladies . To the Hon . GEORGE P. MARSH , the Editor is under obligations for some valuable suggestions in respect to the principles which should be followed in the preparation of a popular English Dictionary . It is not practicable to ...
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... lady of a highly cultivated intellect , and of great ele- gance and grace of manners . His friend Trumbull speaks of this event in one of his letters to Wolcott , who was then at New York , in his character- istic vein of humor ...
... lady of a highly cultivated intellect , and of great ele- gance and grace of manners . His friend Trumbull speaks of this event in one of his letters to Wolcott , who was then at New York , in his character- istic vein of humor ...
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... ladies . Owing , perhaps , to the nature of its subject , it shows quite a number of words borrowed from the French and Latin , while in the works before named such words are altogether rare . ing equivalents in English . The body of ...
... ladies . Owing , perhaps , to the nature of its subject , it shows quite a number of words borrowed from the French and Latin , while in the works before named such words are altogether rare . ing equivalents in English . The body of ...
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... lady grace , hir fader hous ; but heven king , A - S . heofon - cyning , is properly a compound word . § 151. Dative and Accusative Singular . The acc . sing . is always like the nom .: the dat . sing . is usually so . But where the nom ...
... lady grace , hir fader hous ; but heven king , A - S . heofon - cyning , is properly a compound word . § 151. Dative and Accusative Singular . The acc . sing . is always like the nom .: the dat . sing . is usually so . But where the nom ...
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... lady's loose gown . Shak . Bäth ' - châir , n . A kind of chair on wheels , much used by the residents of Bath , England . People walked out , or drove out , or were pushed about in their bath - chairs . Dickens . Ba - thom'e - ter , n ...
... lady's loose gown . Shak . Bäth ' - châir , n . A kind of chair on wheels , much used by the residents of Bath , England . People walked out , or drove out , or were pushed about in their bath - chairs . Dickens . Ba - thom'e - ter , n ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 1619 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
Página 1636 - France, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expense in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money, which was observable for several years after its publication.
Página 1616 - More, more, I prithee, more. Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
Página 1520 - I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him against that day.
Página 1624 - Audacious neighborhood, the wisest heart Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
Página 1629 - The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Parting-ton's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Página 1624 - Wit ever wakeful, fancy busy and procreative as an insect, courage, an easy mind that, without cares of its own, is at once disposed to laugh away those of others, and yet to be interested in them, — these and all congenial qualities, melting into the common copula of them all, the man of rank and the gentleman, with all its excellences and all its weaknesses, constitute the character of Mercutio ! Act i.
Página 1642 - Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
Página 1636 - I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue ; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as, to use here one of those proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Página 1642 - City lay through the midst of it. Now this valley is a very solitary place ; the prophet Jeremiah thus describes it : "A wilderness, a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought, and of the Shadow of Death, a land that no man," but a Christian, " passeth through, and where no man dwelt,