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fixed or stated service Ex day
dægweorc n. work of a day, fixed or stated service , Ex : day-time .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

fits of some sort every day
His sister has fits of some sort every day, she shrieks and he ‘keeps her in order’ with the whip.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

food of some soluble easily digested
In order to increase the fuel value of diluted milk, carbohydrate food of some soluble, easily digested kind is added.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

fainting or sleeping she exclaimed Dere
When she 299 came to the one where Frithiof is supporting King Ring on his knee, fainting, or sleeping, she exclaimed, "Dere, if he had been dat bad, he could have killed King Ring den, ven he was sleeping; but see, he have thrown his sword away;" and at last, when the sculpture represented King Ring dying, and bequeathing his beautiful queen and her children to Frithiof, she exclaimed, "Dere, dem two boys belongs to King Ring; but now Frithiof gets her.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

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