A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their PresentMacmillan, 1873 - 275 páginas |
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... German ' bleich , ' pale , colour- less , comes out clearly in its original identity with ' bleach ' in the following quotations . When she came out , she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead . - FoxE , Book of ...
... German ' bleich , ' pale , colour- less , comes out clearly in its original identity with ' bleach ' in the following quotations . When she came out , she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead . - FoxE , Book of ...
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... Germans in the seventeenth , ( Grimm [ s . v . ' brav ' ] says during the Thirty Years ' War , ) from one or other of the Romance languages . I do not very clearly trace by what steps it obtained the meaning of showy , gaudy , rich ...
... Germans in the seventeenth , ( Grimm [ s . v . ' brav ' ] says during the Thirty Years ' War , ) from one or other of the Romance languages . I do not very clearly trace by what steps it obtained the meaning of showy , gaudy , rich ...
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... German ' brau- chen , ' to use , has now obtained a special limitation , meaning not so much , as once it did , to use , as to endure to use . But none of all those curses overtook The warlike maid , the ensample of that might ; But ...
... German ' brau- chen , ' to use , has now obtained a special limitation , meaning not so much , as once it did , to use , as to endure to use . But none of all those curses overtook The warlike maid , the ensample of that might ; But ...
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... German writer well observes , the French kings might well brook that title of Christianissimi from that admir- able exploit of Carolus Martellus , the next means under God's providence that other parts of Europe had not Saracen tyrants ...
... German writer well observes , the French kings might well brook that title of Christianissimi from that admir- able exploit of Carolus Martellus , the next means under God's providence that other parts of Europe had not Saracen tyrants ...
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... German ' biegsam , ' ' beugsam , ' bendable , pliable , and so obedient . Ignorant of the history of the word , and trusting to the feeling and impression which it con- veyed to their minds , men spoke of ' buxom health ' and the like ...
... German ' biegsam , ' ' beugsam , ' bendable , pliable , and so obedient . Ignorant of the history of the word , and trusting to the feeling and impression which it con- veyed to their minds , men spoke of ' buxom health ' and the like ...
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