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• a devil of a man
  • piru mieheksi
• a rascal of a boy
  • pojannaskali
• glass of water
  • lasi vettä
• It amounts to knocking on the door of No 10 then running away.
• 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
• The breasts of young girls sometimes become tender at puberty in sympathy with the evolution of the sexual organs.
• The third son, William John (1826-1902), was headmaster of the Boys' British School, Hitchin.
• In a much-anticipated radio broadcast the Duke of Edinburgh said last night that Britain will be a grim place in the year 2000.
• Within ten seconds, the citizens of New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Toronto were being given first-hand experience of what it was like to live in the nineteenth century.
• Thus, as he dressed, the thoughts and the rage of yesterday began to stir and move in his mind again.
• In its flattering way, the press tried to invest this habit of Bush's with the sense that it was indicative of a particularly sharp wit.
• He is just what I should have liked a son of mine to be.
• Dunning, however, is of the old school, and does not like new faces; so he will have no Irishman at his door.
• My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
• And the folysshe sayde to the wyse: geve us of youre oyle, for oure lampes goo out?
• That, I think, is the buried core of the outrage people feel most generally.
• everyone, even the ladies of the village, called the dish tzigayner shmeklekh, or “gypsies' penises.”
• Many of the civilisational achievements of Mesopotamia are the product of that symbiosis.
• The dead bodies of the Koreish were despoiled and insulted; two of the most obnoxious prisoners were punished with death.
• But as for me said sire Gareth I medle not of their maters therfore there is none of them that loueth me / And for I vnderstande they be murtherers of good knyghtes I lefte theyre company
• The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm Whales.
• Recession and rising unemployment have put paid to most thoughts of further EU enlargement.
• while producing Cook, which includes more than 250 seasonal recipes by 80 different chefs, we washed up more than 500 times (oh, how I dreamed of dishwashers).
• I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
• William of Ockham – Wilhelm Ockhamilainen/Vilhelm Okkamilainen
• out of the car
• robbed of one's money
• south of Omaha
• within a mile of the church
• "You couldn't of known," Livio says.
• ‘You must of left your door unlocked. Or even open.’
• "I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she have been the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out."
• The cab driver's claim he was sleepwalking during the attack has already been supported by his wife of 37 years.
• And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
• If there was a type Ida despised, Sir Claude communicated to Maisie, it was the man who pottered about town of a Sunday.
• For, sometimes of an afternoon when Miss Pupford has been reading the paper through her little gold eye-glass[...]she has become agitated.
• A police car, traveling southbound at a speed of 40.0 m/s, approaches with its siren producing sound at a frequency of 2 500 Hz.
• She was a tall young girl of about twenty-two or three, holding herself erect and with fine dignity.
• No other man has made so deep a mark on his time and on our world unless he has been a man of action, a Cromwell or a Napoleon.
• His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness.
• Still nimble of mind and fleet of foot, Morris buzzed here and there, linking well and getting stuck in at every opportunity.
• He was huge, raw-boned, knotty, long of body and long of leg, with the head of a war charger.
• Antifeminism has been a credible cover and an effective vehicle because the hatred of women is not politically anathema on either the Right or the Left.
• I am almost entirely cured of my rheumatism—just a little pain in my knee now and then, to make me remember what it was, and keep on flannel.
• The woman who danced for me said she was there of her own free will, but when I pushed a bit further, I discovered that she "owed a man a lot of money", and had to pay it back quickly.
• Undoubtedly it is to be understood, that inflicting deserved punishment on all evil doers, of right, belongs to God.
• Faire knyght said Palomydes me semeth we haue assayed eyther other passyng sore / and yf hit may please the / I requyre the of thy knyghthode telle me thy name / Sir said the knyȝt to Palomydes / that is me loth to doo / for thou hast done me wronge.
• Nothing may come of these ideas, yet their potential should not be dismissed.
• My father was born of a family of weavers in Manchester, England.
• They wondred all, and marveylled sayinge amonge themselves: Loke, are not all these which speake off galile? And howe heare we every man his awne tongue wherein we were boren?
• He was kindly treated by the people at Saco, and recovered of his wounds.
• Yet for long spells Villa looked laboured and devoid of ideas.
• But schemes are perfectly accidental: some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful.
• In Houston, ten minutes after the Lindquist Finance Corp. was robbed of $447, Office Manager Howard Willson got a phone call from the thief who complained: "You didn't have enough money over there."
• He smelled of beer and cigarette smoke and his own body.
• Antigonus [took] upon him to favour a souldier of his by reason of his vertue and valour, to have great care of him, and see whether they could recover him of a lingering and inward disease which had long tormented him.
• And ther with on his handes and on his knees he wente soo nyghe that he touched the holy vessel / and kyste hit / and anone he was hole / and thenne he sayd lord god I thanke the / for I am helyd of this sekenesse
• Quarter of seven. Fifteen minutes to go.
• "Fellow Democrats," he began, "I left Washington at a quarter of two this morning."
• There are now upwards of 1.4 million 99ers in America facing a life with no benefits and few prospects for finding a job in a market in which companies are still not hiring.
• Though Washington does not offically recognize Moscow, the Hoover Administration permits a Soviet Russian Information Bureau to flourish in a modest red brick house on Massachusetts Avenue, within a mile of the White House.
• Obama has been obliged to make nice of late in hope of rescuing the moribund two-state process and preventing resumed West Bank settlement building.
• one that I brought vp of a puppy[...]I was sent to deliuer him, as a present to Mistris Siluia, from my Master.
• And he axed his father: howe longe is it agoo, sens this hath happened hym? And he sayde, of a chylde.
• Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others.
• Morrissey's spokesperson says he is considering the offer. It would perhaps be rude of him to decline.
• "You must not judge of Celia's feeling from mine. I think she likes these small pets."
• he spoke of his uncle with warm regard, was fond of talking of him.
• "I'm having a bitch of a day," he says, after ordering a restorative pint of Guinness and flopping down in a seat by the front window.
• As he swallowed the soup his heart warmed to this fool of a girl.
• In his studio in the Behlendorf woods, near the Baltic city of Lübeck, Günter Grass reflects on the outcry over his fictive memoir Peeling the Onion.
• This having the rainy month of March and April to water it, sprung up very pleasantly, and yielded a very good crop.
• I'd expected to be confronted by oodles of barely suppressed tension and leather-clad, pouty-mouthed, large-haired sexiness; the visual shorthand of rock gods in general, and Jon Bon Jovi in particular.
• His papers at this period contain a mass of very unedifying and uninteresting documents.
• Perhaps symbolically, Van Doesburg was building a house of straw: he died within a few months of completion, not in Meudon but in Davos, of a heart attack following a bout of asthma.
• The mallet is made of a hard heavy wood resembling ebony, is about twelve inches in length, and perhaps two in breadth, with a rounded handle at one end.
• Sir said Galahad by this shelde ben many merueils fallen / Sir sayd the knyght hit befelle after the passion of our lord Ihesu Crist xxxij yere that Ioseph of Armathye the gentyl knyghte / the whiche took doune oure lord of the hooly Crosse att that tyme he departed from Iherusalem with a grete party of his kynred with hym
• When this was over, Mr. Woodhouse gratefully observed,—"It is very kind of you, Mr. Knightley, to come out at this late hour to call upon us."
• Somehow Croatia has escaped the opprobrium of the likes of the German Christian Democrats and others that are against any rapid enlargement of the European Union to the include rest of the western Balkans.
• In Blood and Sand, meanwhile, Valentino repeatedly solicits the attention of women who have turned away from him.
• Colombia and Venezuela share an elegantly restrained style, with much back-stepping, smaller hand-movements and little use of the elaborate, arm-tangling moves beloved of Cuban dancers.
• The family is ordained of God.
• she might appeare to be the lively patterne of another Lucrece, yet know I certainly that, both before that time and afterward, she had beene enjoyed of others upon easier composition.
• After a good while, the iewes toke cousell amonge themselves to kyll him. But their layinges awayte wer knowen of Saul.
• Lib Dems were appalled by Mr Boles’s offer, however kindly meant: the party is so frightened of losing its independence under Mr Clegg that such a pact would “kill” him, says a senior member.
• Two men, one from Somalia and one from Zimbabwe, died of terminal illnesses shortly after their incarceration ended.