"duet" hidden in books

drown us exclaimed the

Do you want to drown us?” exclaimed the horrified women.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

do us evil True

This cat, of cats the very devil, When mice are gone, will do us evil.' 'True, true,' said each and all; 'To arms!
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

de una entidad tutelar

La noción de gobierno, esto es, la de una entidad tutelar y directiva, nacida del consenso general, digna de respeto, necesariamente fuerte y obligatoriamente honesta, empezó a entrar en el alma nacional cuando, después de predicarla durante cuarenta años, Sarmiento la encarnó en la Presidencia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

dried up except these

All was shrivelled and dried up, except these lights; her voice too was fearfully changed, as she spoke to me at intervals.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

disturb unsettle embroil throw

perturbar t disturb, unsettle, embroil, throw into disorder.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

descended upon earth to

Notwithstanding the modest silence of Julian himself, we may learn from his faithful friend, the orator Libanius, that he lived in a perpetual intercourse with the gods and goddesses; that they descended upon earth to enjoy the conversation of their favorite hero; that they gently interrupted his slumbers by touching his hand or his hair; that they warned him of every impending danger, and conducted him, by their infallible wisdom, in every action of his life; and that he had acquired such an intimate knowledge of his heavenly guests, as readily to distinguish the voice of Jupiter from that of Minerva, and the form of Apollo from the figure of Hercules.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

direction upon entering the

By the angel's direction, upon entering the marriage-chamber, he lays the heart and liver of the fish upon embers.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

dig up even the

Imagine, they have begun to dig up even the new potatoes which are no bigger than a pigeon’s egg.
— from The Flying Spy by Camillo De Carlo

demands upon every thing

It lays its demands upon every thing within the scope of human action .
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Deo Uni et Trino

Deo Uni et Trino, Dicatum, A. D. MDCCCXXXIV ," the letters elevated in basso-relievo .
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

Dipper usually exhibits the

To the presence of man the Dipper usually exhibits the utmost repugnance, whether he come in [Pg 227] the guise of a friend or foe, nor is it less fearful of the attacks of the numerous birds of prey that dwell around and within its rocky haunts.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

door untaught even to

Born in wretched huts of rough [Pg 318] stone and rotten straw, compared with which the poorest log-cabin is a palace, with a turf fire, no window, and a mass of filth heaped up before the door, untaught even to read, and growing up in a region where no manufactures nor arts are prosecuted, the Irish peasant-girl arrives at womanhood less qualified by experience, observation or training for industrial efficiency and usefulness than the daughter of any Choctaw or Sioux Indian.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

did until eventually the

The rations decreased in size, and the number of days that we did not get any, kept constantly increasing in proportion to the days that we did, until eventually the meat bade us a final adieu, and joined the sweet potato in that undiscovered country from whose bourne no ration ever returned.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

down upon Ephraim then

2. And it was told the house of David, Aram has settled down upon Ephraim: then his heart shook, and the heart of the people, as trees of the wood shake before the wind.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

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