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• Atlantean-English-Noun-3en hasQuotation "2006, Tim Conley, Stephen Cain, Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages,: Indeed, Okrand's goal in inventing Atlantean was to recreate Indo-European, and it thus borrows from several languages yet contains no recognizable words from these linguistic systems.".
• Atlantean-English-Noun-4en hasQuotation "ca. 2005, Sacred Sites: Tula: This pyramid has been restored and the tall statues, called Atlanteans (Los Atlantes), have been erected on its summit.".
• Aubrey-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "1595, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3, Act III,Scene III:: Call him my king, by whose injurious doom / My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere, / Was done to death?".
• Audrey-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": Act III, Scene III:: Touchstone. Come, sweet Audrey, / We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.".
• Aufgabe-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1902, William James, The Varities of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 329 (footnote):: The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling.".
• Aufgabe-German-Noun-3en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 31/2010, page 56:: Die Aufgabe eines Verteidigers besteht darin, für seine Mandanten mit allen Mitteln des Rechtsstaats zu kämpfen.".
• Aufkommen-German-Noun-2en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 47/2010, page 87:: Um das steigende Aufkommen beim Güterverkehr zu bewältigen, will Bundesverkehrsminister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) möglichst viel Transportgut auf die Bahn verlagern.".
• Aufschwung-German-Noun-3en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 52/2010, page 26:: Wirtschaft und Regierung blicken mit Zuversicht ins nächste Jahr. 2011 verspricht eine Fortsetzung des Aufschwungs.".
• Aura-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1861 W. W. Fosdick - George R. Poulton, Aura Lea (a song):: Aura Lea, Aura Lea, / Maid with golden hair;".
• Aurelius-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1992 Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief, Arrow Books, ISBN 9780099471394, page 169:: Would the name Marcus Aurelius have meant anything to him? In all probability, he would have thought it a fancy name for a black slave.".
• Aus-German-Noun-3en hasQuotation "2012 April 16, Die Welt , page 20:: Der größte europäische Erdbeobachtungssatellit „Envisat“ steht nach einem Totalausfall der Kommunikationssysteme vor dem Aus.".
• Auss\u00E4tzeger-Luxembourgish-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Luxembourgish translation of Matthew 10:8:: Heelt Kranker, erwächt Doudeger, rengegt Aussätzeger, dreift Dämonen aus! Fir näischt hutt dir kritt, fir näischt sollt dir ginn!".
• Australasian-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation ": Much more diffuse affinities occur to the Australasian monotypic Goebeliellaceae.".
• Australia-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1693: translation of a French novel by Jacques Sadeur (believed to be a pen name of Gabriel de Foigny) titled Les Aventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la Découverte et le Voiage de la Terre Australe published 1692, translation published in London in 1693. Quoted in The Australian Language by Sidney J. Baker, second edition, 1966, chapter XIX, section 1, pages 388-9.: This is all that I can have a certain knowledge of as to that side of Australia ...".
• Autorit\u00E4t-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1932, Erich Mühsam, [[s:de:Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat|Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat]], in: Erich Mühsam: Prosaschriften II, Verlag europäische ideen Berlin (1978), page 268:: Unrecht ist die Verfehlung gegen die menschliche Gemeinschaft, Sünde die Verfehlung gegen die göttliche, mithin gegen die priesterliche Autorität.".
• Autostrada_del_Sole-Italian-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2002 Zeffiro Ciuffoletti - Paesaggi toscani (trans): After the construction if the Italian railway system, the great infrastructural innovations arrived with the expressways and in particular with the Autostrada del Sole, which crossed Tuscany from the Apennines to the Valdichiana, runing through lovely landscapes.".
• Azeri_Turkic-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "1973, Kathleen R. F. Burrill, The Quatrains of Nesimî, Fourteenth-century Turkic Hurufi, page 46: Generally he is accounted an Azeri Turkic rather than an Ottoman poet though frequently, like Kadi Biirhaneddin and Fuzuli, he is included in lists of Ottoman Turkish poets.".
• Azeri_Turkic-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2006, Christiane Bulut, \"Syntactic traces of Turkic-Iranian contiguity: An areal survey of language contact-induced shift in patterns of relativization\", Turkic-Iranian contact areas: Historical and linguistic aspects (Turcologica 62), page 187: Yet, classifying these varieties, which are spoken in the sphere of influence of the two major Oghuz languages, Azeri Turkic and Ottoman or Modern Standard Turkish, is difficult".
• Aztec-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1994: Diego Durán, Doris Heyden (translator), The History of the Indies of New Spain: (= los señores de Tlatelulco, recibieron mucho enojo y pesadumbre, y dixeron entre sí mesmos: estos mexicanos imaginan que nosotros somos de diferente generacion quellos; no saben que somo mexicanos) [1867 edition]".
• Aztec-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1994: Diego Durán, Doris Heyden (translator), The History of the Indies of New Spain: The lords of Tlatelolco were greatly angered over this and said, one to another, \"These Aztecs believe that we are of an alien lineage. Do they not know that we are Aztecs like them[?]".
• Aztec-English-Noun-2en hasQuotation "1989: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe: Although united culturally, the Aztecs thought of themselves in terms of their particular tribal affiliations: as Mexica, Tetzcoca, Culhua, Tepaneca, etc.".
• B-drinker-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "Early 1960s, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces: \"That po gal.\" Jones explored a booth with the broom. \"Hustlin water, runnin erran. Whoa!\" / \"Ring up the precinct about her. She's a B-drinker.\" / \"I waitin till I can ring up the precinct about you. Darlene don wanna be a B-drinker. She force to be a B-drinker. She say she wanna go in show biz.\"".
• B-girl-English-Noun-4en hasQuotation "1962, Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1962,, quoted in Crossing Over the Line (1994), David J Langum :: The girls were recruited by the Sappersteins in Baltimore, allegedly for employment as B-Girls and strip dancers at the Club in Calumet City managed by Austrew. In fact, upon arrival in Calumet City it turned out that they were expected and encouraged to prostitute themselves, as well as to engage in activities for which they were ostensibly employed.".
• BAMF-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation ": , The Philip DeFranco Show, “”, 2:39–3:09: And guys, rather than having a douchebag of the day today, I feel we need something uplifting, and that’s why today we have a BAMF of the day. Our BAMF of the day actually comes from the chaos in Haiti: an Australian cameraman. The reason being is while all the other television reporters and cameramen were getting shots of all the terrible stuff happening, this cameraman heard a baby in trouble; so rather than getting a shot like everyone else, he put down the camera, saved the girl — which was recorded by another station — and he had to apologize to his station for not getting the shot. And I just have to say “bravo!” to that man; we need more people like you. And that is why you are our BAMF of the day.".
• BVDs-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 97:: We frolicked like dolphins – Graeme and I in shorts and Bob in his B.V.D.'s – and then stretched out on the ancient waveworn shingle to let the sinking sun dry and warm us.".
• B_cell-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 89:: Mature B cells produce complex proteins called immunoglobins which combine to form antibodies, each capable of binding to a specific molecular structure.".
• Babel-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 48:: A babel of languages could be heard in the streets and the squares, mingling with the local Provençal.".
• Bacchanalian-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "William Cowper:: Even bacchanalian madness has its charms.".
• Bad-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "ein Bad nehmen: to take a bath".
• Bad-German-Noun-2en hasQuotation "Wo ist das Bad?: Where is the bathroom?".
• Bad-German-Noun-4en hasQuotation "Bad Cannstatt, Bad Homburg, Bad Segeberg, ...: (place names)".
• Baldwins_phosphorus-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1861 - John Henry Pepper - The Playbook of Metals: Including Personal Narratives of Visits to Coal, Lead, Copper, and Tin...: Baldwin's phosphorus is prepared by melting nitrate of lime in a crucible or ladle for about ten minutes; it is then poured into an iron pot, or mould, previously heated, and has the property, like Canton's phosphorus, of absorbing light when exposed to the sun, and emitting it when taken into a darkened room.".
• Balkans-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2002 — Dennis P. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism, p104: As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew.".
• Balochi-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1990, , The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 37:: Had the fiercely independent Baluchis discovered what they were up to, it would immediately have een assumed that the British were exploring their lands preparatory to seizing them.".
• Baltic-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "1994 — S. C. Rowell, Lithuania Ascending, page 9: The Teutonic Knights were newly established in the Baltic region, where they owed their first possessions to Mazovian policy.".
• Baltic-English-Adjective-2en hasQuotation "1918 — Charles E. Bennett, New Latin Grammar: The Baltic division of the group embraces the Lithuanian and Lettic.".
• Baltic-English-ProperNoun-4en hasQuotation "— Thomas Malthus, Importation of Foreign Corn: It appears from the evidence, that the corn from the Baltic is often very heavily taxed, and that this tax is generally raised in proportion to our necessities.".
• Baltic-English-ProperNoun-5en hasQuotation "1906 — Robert Barr, A Rock in the Baltic: Well, you see, I was temporarily in command of the cruiser coming down the Baltic, and passing an island rock a few miles away, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test a new gun that had been put aboard when we left England.".
• Balto-Slav-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2003, Walter Addison Jayne, Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations, Kessinger Publishing, p. 161:: AGNI (\"Fire\") was one of the great original deities of the Rigveda, just as fire was a principal divinity of other Indo-European peoples — Iranians, Greeks, Latins and Balto-Slavs.".
• Bannian-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1749 — Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III ch ii: This species of men, from the great severity with which they revenge the death of a hare or partridge, might be thought to cultivate the same superstition with the Bannians in India; many of whom, we are told, dedicate their whole lives to the preservation and protection of certain animals; was it not that our English Bannians, while they preserve them from other enemies, will most unmercifully slaughter whole horse-loads themselves; so that they stand clearly acquitted of any such heathenish superstition.".
• Barack-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1995, 2004 Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father, Crown Publishers (2004), ISBN 978-0-307-38341-9, page 104:: \"What did Marcus call you just now? Some African name, wasn't it?\" \"Barack.\" \"I though your name was Barry.\" \"Barack's my given name. My father's name. He was Kenyan.\" \"Does it mean something?\" \"It means 'Blessed'. In Arabic. My grandfather was a Muslim.\"".
• Barcelonan-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "1998, Laplana, Josep de C., Macià, Teresa, Museu de Montserrat: visitor's guide: Next to a Catalan revival paten which represents the Adoration of the Kings, there is another which was produced, in 1924, by the Barcelonan metalworker Ramon Sunyer (1889-1963).".
• Barcelonan-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1830, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveller: Spain and Portugal: For more than a century, the Barcelonans were engaged in incessant struggles with the Moors, but ultimately maintained their independence till the annexation of the principality of Catalonia to the crown of Aragon in the twelfth century.".
• Baruch-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ":: Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.".
• Basil-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1866 Eliza Tabor Stephenson, Hester's Sacrifice, Hust and Blackett, 1866, Volume II, page 28:: \"Nonsense. I'm sure he can't have grey hair with such a pretty name as that. Basil Brooke, Basil Brooke,\" and May chanted the name over and over in her girlish, musical voice. \"It sounds like all sorts of pleasant pictures. - -".
• Bathsheba-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ":: 3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?".
• Bathsheba-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "1996 Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, ISBN 0-7472-1538-3, page 172:: 'I was kinda sweet on her my own self. Sheba Otis, her name was then.' I was surprised. 'She married a Queen? Which one?' 'Can't say.' He sighed. 'Her name's Bathsheba, but she never liked that much.' He turned to look at me. 'That's one of them Bible names.'".
• Baz-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2003, Peter Robinson, Aftermath: An Inspector Banks Mystery, unnumbered page,: There was me and Baz – Barry Stevens, my DS – in one car.".
• Baz-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "2005, Reginald Hill, Who Guards a Prince, page 169,: That's what Baz—Basil Younger——said when I put it to him.".
• Bazza-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2007, Jim Potts, Glitter, page 114,: However, Bazza wasn't put off that easily.".
• Bazza-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2007, Jim Potts, Glitter, page 114,: “Barry, you've been on the Coast too long. Tomorrow morning I'm going to organize a job for you elsewhere. I'd start packing if I were you.”".
• Bazza-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "2001, Kerryn Higgs, All That False Instruction, page 181,: ‘Do you want a lift, Basil?’ I asked him.".
• Bazza-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "2001, Kerryn Higgs, All That False Instruction, page 181,: ‘I′m standing at me own door, Bazza. Nothing illegal in that, is there?’".
• Beau-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: Chapter XXXV:: 'Mees Melly, I hear she call her boy \"Beauregard\". You tell her I, René, approve and say that except for \"Jesus\" there is no bettaire name.'".
• Beau-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: Chapter XXXV:: 'Well, there's \"Robert Edward Lee\" ', observed Tommy. 'And while I'm not trying to lessen Old Beau's reputation, my first son is going to be named \"Bob Lee Wellburn\".'".
• Beau-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: Chapter XXXV:: And though he smiled, his eyes glowed proudly at the name of Louisiana's dashing hero.".
• Beelzebub-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew, 12:24: But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.".
• Beleg-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 30/2010, page 62:: Die Turbulenzen am Kakaomarkt sind nur der jüngste Beleg dafür, dass wieder spekuliert wird, dass die internationalen Finanzmärkte die Agrarrohstoffe erneut entdeckt haben.".
• Belgravian-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1862, London, and its Forms of Social Life, in The Boston Review, Volume 2, page 102,: The haughty Belgravians, the aristocracy of rank, are greatly shocked at the bad manners of the aristocracy of wealth, the Barings and Rothschilds of the city, and earnestly entreat all \"respectable\" strangers at Prince Albert's fair to bear it ever in mind that London City is not London Town!".
• Bell-English-ProperNoun-4en hasQuotation "1857 Charles Dickens, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, Chapter 1:: I couldn’t make out her name at first; for, when she gave it in answer to my inquiry, it sounded like Beltot, which didn’t sound right. But, when we became better acquainted—which was while Charker and I were drinking sugar-cane sangaree, which she made in a most excellent manner—I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott. Being the kind of neat little woman it was natural to make a toy of—I never saw a woman so like a toy in my life—she had got the plaything name of Belltott. In short, she had no other name on the island.".
• Beltway_bandit-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2001, Richard B. Schwartz, After the Fall, page 45: He worked for a beltway bandit firm, doing engineering work. He computed trajectories on missiles... that kind of thing.".
• Belyando_spew-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1908, Australasian Medical Association, Australasian Medical Gazette: The Journal of the Australasian branches of the British Medical Association, Volume 27, page 25,: Filariasis, anchylostomiasis, tropical anaemias, and the many and varied tropical disorders, from malaria and dengue to Barcoo rot and Belyando spew, await the application of modern research methods to place them on the necessary footing to render prophylaxis and treatment more satisfactory.".
• Benjamin-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2007 Mark Schreiber, Starcrossed, Llewellyn Worldwide, ISBN 0738710016, page 53:: \"Well, who the hell ever thinks some boy with a name like Benjamin is going to kill someone?\" I said. \"It's like someone named Winnie the Pooh taking hostages!\"".
• Benji-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "2011 Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, pages 77-78:: His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. 300502Benji? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's. 'As far as I'm concerned, he's Benjamin Rigby,' said Kit, after the first time we met him. 'He seems like a decent baby and he deserves a decent name.".
• Ber\u00FChrung-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1932, Erich Mühsam, [[s:de:Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat|Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat]], in: Erich Mühsam: Prosaschriften II, Verlag europäische ideen Berlin (1978), page 276:: Nur noch der Bauer hat diese innige Berührung mit dem Lande, die es zu einem Stück seiner selbst macht, wie er sich als Bestandteil des von ihm beackerten Grundes empfindet.".
• Berkeleio--English-Prefix-1en hasQuotation "1868, Humphrey Lloyd, James MacIvor, Paul Cullen, et al., University Education in Ireland,: Are we entitled, therefore, to force this on the Catholic youth of Ireland, with or without its Berkeleio-Humeian developments, or its farther mystification of German verbiage; or shall we cut it out, and substitute for Locke, and Butler, and Hallam, and Macaulay, “Catholic” History, Metaphysics, and Sociology?".
• Bernard-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1992 Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea, Plume (1994), ISBN 0452271770, pages 18-19:: A similar arrangement was made for her son Bernard, named in honor of the great Carthusian mystic (at least, that is what Jim Gaffney would softly tell Mrs. Kozinski) and of Bernie Astor, the publicist.".
• Bernie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1992 Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea, Plume (1994), ISBN 0452271770, pages 18-19:: A similar arrangement was made for her son Bernard, named in honor of the great Carthusian mystic (at least, that is what Jim Gaffney would softly tell Mrs. Kozinski) and of Bernie Astor, the publicist.".
• Bernie-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "1864 Mary Andrews Denison, Out of Prison, Graves and Young (1864), pages 21-22:: To catch a nearer view of the coming ship, now much larger than the mere speck it had at first appeared, little Bernice, or Bernie, as she was most lovingly called at home, had moved far in advance of her mother, till now she stood quite near to the edge of the wharf.".
• Bessy-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ", Scene 6:: Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.".
• Bethleem-Latin-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ": cum ergo natus esset Iesus in Bethleem Iudaeae in diebus Herodis regis ecce magi ab oriente venerunt Hierosolymam".
• Betjemanian-English-Adjective-1en hasQuotation "1992, John Hartley, The politics of pictures (page 138): the Betjemanian allusiveness of suburbanity".
• Betreiber-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 23/2010, page 31:: Betreiber von Atomkraftwerken müssen künftig eine neue Brennelementesteuer entrichten. Im Gegenzug werden die Laufzeiten der Meiler verlängert.".
• Betsy-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1993 Phillip Margolin: Gone But Not Forgotten. Bantam Books ISBN 0553569031 p.25:: No one ever called Elizabeth Tannenbaum stunning, but most men found her attractive. Hardly anyone called her Elizabeth, either. An \"Elizabeth\" was regal, cool, an eyecatching beauty. A \"Betsy\" was pleasant to look at, a tiny bit overweight, capable, but still fun to be with. Betsy suited her just fine.".
• Bette-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1981 William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, ISBN 0394510976, page 293:: There's a long silence. Dad's still up on his knees; I'm driving along Sepulveda Boulevard toward Olympic.".
• Bette-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1981 William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, ISBN 0394510976, page 293:: \"Jack, couldn't you call me Bette again? You know how much I hate Bess. I don't know what's happened; you've been calling me Bette since we came to California and now, suddenly, you're calling me Bess.\"".
• Bette-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1981 William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, ISBN 0394510976, page 293:: \"Well, Bette, I married you as Bess and I've always liked that name. It's a name you don't hear very often; it's a strong name like you. Every time I call you Bette I'm afraid somebody else might answer.\"".
• Beverly-English-ProperNoun-3en hasQuotation "1984 Louise Erdrich: Love medicine. Bantam Books 1984. ISBN 0553268082 page 74:: Having a name some people thought of as feminine had turned Beverly Lamartine to building up his muscles in his youth, and they still bulged, hard as ingots in some places, now lost in others.".
• Beweis-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 23/2010, page 75:: Erst in den neunziger Jahren etablierte sich die sogenannte evidenzbasierte Medizin, die systematisch nach Beweisen für die Wirksamkeit von Medikamenten sucht.".
• Bezeichnung-German-Noun-2en hasQuotation "1931, Gebhard Mehring, [[s:de:Schrift und Schrifttum|Schrift und Schrifttum]], Silberburg-Verlag, page 21:: Das römische Zahlensystem […] besteht aus 7 Buchstaben, die zur Bezeichnung von Zahlenwerten verwendet werden: M D C L X V I".
• Bianca-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1594 William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew: Act I, Scene I :: Sweet Bianca! Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring.".
• Billigung-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, [[s:de:Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter|Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter]], in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 83:: Für alles hatte Tante Sonja ein kritisches Naserümpfen, nur Dorothee schien ihre volle Billigung zu finden.".
• Birmingham_screwdriver-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2003, \"Alex Ferrier\", Insurance Payout? (on newsgroup uk.rec.motorcycles): I'll be watching the fucker like a hawk with a Birmingham screwdriver to the ready should I spot anything untoward.".
• Bl\u00E4ue-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 33/2010, page 92:: Der Winterhimmel hier an der australischen Westküste ist klar und von eisiger Bläue, die Morgensonne kriecht gerade über die Hochhäuser.".
• Black_and_Decker-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2006 September 21, Woodworm changes course looking for repeat of Flintoff factor, by Andrew Culf in The Guardian: Five years ago Joe Sillett picked up a bat which had been given the Black and Decker treatment in his father's garage to remove its woodworm-infested rough edges.".
• Blanch-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ", Scene 1:: That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch, / Is near to England: look upon the years / Of Lewis the Dauphin and the lovely maid. / If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, / Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?".
• Blauwal-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 25/2010, page 140:: Mit seinen 30 Meter Länge und mitunter mehr als 150 Tonnen Gewicht übertrifft der Blauwal jedes andere Tier auf Erden.".
• Blighty-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1986, Pierre Burton, Vimy, McClelland and Stewart, ISBN 0-7710-1339-6, p 91:: With such delights awaiting them only a few miles to the rear, it's no wonder that men prayed for a “blighty” – a small wound that would not incapacitate them for life, but would get them out of the line for a month or even a week. . . . a stray bullet pierced Moore's left foot. Moore cried out, not with pain, but with delight. ¶ “Oh,” he shouted, “it's a beauty, Vic! What a present from the Red Devil! It's a Blighty, I'll bet a dollar.”".
• Blimp-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.".
• Bliss-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "2008 Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-154748-5, page 97:: Betsey winced. \"Bliss\" was a beautiful name!".
• Bliss-English-ProperNoun-2en hasQuotation "2008 Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-154748-5, page 97:: \"Mother doesn't seem to especially like her little granddaughter as it is, even named 'Edna Louise'. D'you think she's going to like her better, named 'Bliss' like some sexpot pop star or some Indian-mystic asshole-charlatan?\"".
• Boaz-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation ":: Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens".
• Bobby-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1944 Mazo de la Roche, The Building of Jalna, Dundurn Press Ltd (2009), ISBN 1550028782, page 163:: It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.".
• Boden-German-Noun-1en hasQuotation "2010, Der Spiegel, issue 28/2010, page 70:: Die erste Staatspleite auf europäischem Boden seit Jahrzehnten konnte nur verhindert werden, weil die übrigen Länder der Euro-Zone dem strauchelnden Mitglied mit Milliarden-Krediten beisprangen.".
• Boeotian-English-Adjective-2en hasQuotation "1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 418:: we will leave to thy sagacity to apply all this to the Boeotian writers, and to those authors who are their opposites.".
• Bolognian_phosphorus-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1839 John White Webster - A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science, in the Order in which They...: and the Bolognian phosphorus, discovered by Vincenzo Cascariolo, a shoemaker of Bologna, is made by reducing compact sulphate of baryta to a fine powder, which is formed into cakes with mucilage, and these are heated to redness.".
• Bonnie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind:: 'Bonnie Blue Butler,' laughed Rhett, taking the child from her and peering more closely into the small eyes. And Bonnie she became until even her parents did not recall that she had been named for two queens.".
• Bonnie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind:: 'Indeed they are not,' cried Melanie indignantly, forgetting that Scarlett's eyes were almost that shade. 'They are going to be blue, like Mr O'Hara's eyes, as blue as - as blue as the bonnie blue flag.'".
• Bonnie-English-ProperNoun-1en hasQuotation "1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind:: Rhett leaning over the child had said: 'Her eyes are going to be pea-green.'".
• Bononian_phosphorus-English-Noun-1en hasQuotation "1835 John M. Moffatt - The Book of Science,: Second Series, Comprising Treatises on Chemistry, Metallurgy, Mineralogy,...: The radiated or stellated variety of this sulphate includes the Bologna stone of Monte Paterno, used in the preparation of the Bononian phosphorus".

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