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continente después del
Los grandes teatros líricos del continente, después del Colón, son la Gran Opera de Río de Janeiro, construida según el modelo de la de París, el Teatro Municipal de San Pablo (Brasil), cuyo costo pasa de siete millones de pesos, el teatro de San José de Costa Rica, que es uno de los más hermosos del continente, el Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, el Solís de Montevideo, el Nacional de la Habana y muchos otros.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

clearly defined different
The English preposition "with" may be said to have three rather clearly defined different meanings.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Cicero de Divinatione
Cicero , de Divinatione , I. xliv.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

convivial du début
Quant à l'avenir d'internet en général, je pense que ce médium va se populariser, tout en étant en prise avec le développement d'un réseau commercial qui va contrecarrer l'esprit convivial du début.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

contravention deviation divergency
ANT: Disinclination, aversion, repulsion, contravention, deviation, divergency, tangency, divarication, opposition, renitency, reluctance, prevention, neutralization, termination.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

certain distinctive drinking
The soil, altitude, climatic influences, and cultivation methods of a country give its coffee certain distinctive drinking qualities.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

cause de Dieu
à la cause de Dieu; elle l'a servie —The emancipation of reason has not injured the cause of God; it has promoted it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

cum dictis discrepant
Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant —His actions 10 do not harmonise with his words.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

corners drawn down
Sunken gray eyes too dull and cold to light up, marked a hard, stony face, the salient features of which was a thin lipped, compressed mouth, with corners drawn down deeply—the mouth which seems the world over to be the index of selfish, cruel, sulky malignance.
— from Fifteen Months in Dixie; Or, My Personal Experience in Rebel Prisons by William W. Day

clear deliver disencumber
Free, clear, deliver, disencumber, relieve, set free.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

cutting down dispersing
Onward they moved in union, cutting down, dispersing, riding over, and trampling the flying or scattered infantry, capturing guns and waggons, strewing the paths with dead and dying; forward they moved in their irresistible course, and converted a beaten army into a shapeless, hideous mass of helpless fugitives.”
— from Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

Colonel Dawson Damer
In the preceding chapter I have mentioned several portrait-rings of remarkable interest; I may add that at the Loan Exhibition of Ancient and Modern Jewellery at the South Kensington Museum in 1872, some fine and highly curious specimens of this character were shown, and amongst them the following:— Colonel Dawson Damer is the possessor of a gold ring with a miniature by Cosway of the eye of George, Prince of Wales.
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.

Cowper died during
Burns, Mason [302] , Cowper died during my emigration, before 1800 and in 1800: they ended the century; I commenced it.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

called Duc de
Turenne, now, through his recent marriage with the heiress, called Duc de Bouillon, great head of the Huguenot party in France, counselled as warmly the open attack.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

could drink deeply
If, forgetting the allurements of the world, I could drink deeply enough of it; if, cast adrift from the shore, I could with complete integrity float on it, I should never be seen on the Mill-Dam again.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

cockcrow doing deeds
Most men who drink at nights, and are out till cockcrow doing deeds of darkness, become red in their faces, have pimpled cheeks and watery eyes, and are bloated and not comfortable to be seen.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope


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