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- adjective Attributive form of
phrase book
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Examples
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So, armed with a rudimentary knowledge of some terms in bahasa, I trundled off to Google and found some of the standard, tourism-based phrase-book sites.
from the Department of Essential Knowledge mikandra 2010
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So, armed with a rudimentary knowledge of some terms in bahasa, I trundled off to Google and found some of the standard, tourism-based phrase-book sites.
mikandra: from the Department of Essential Knowledge mikandra 2010
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We would need to have an algorithm (such as a phrase-book or grammar-checker) to determine if a given sequence is a meaningful English phrase. eric: By starting with words, you have literally started at the goal.
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Zachriel Says: … We would need to have an algorithm (such as a phrase-book or grammar-checker) to determine if a given sequence is a meaningful English phrase.
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The very summer before last I got so far on the way in London as to buy a Spanish phrase-book full of those inopportune conversations with landlords, tailors, ticket-sellers, and casual acquaintance or agreeable strangers.
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Such fragments of Latin as we find in the dialogue between Holofernes and Nathaniel in _Love's Labour's Lost_, IV. ii, and V. i, are probably due to some elementary phrase-book no longer to be identified.
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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Then Aunt Victoria got out an old French grammar and phrase-book, a copy of "Télémaque," and a pocket-dictionary, treasured possessions which she always carried about with her, and had a kind of pride in.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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Then I took up the phrase-book again; but could not study, and so bathed and retired, it being now not far from ten o'clock.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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Here the plays represented Roman life in the rough, and were full of words and expressions not down in any dictionary or phrase-book; nor in these local displays were forgotten various Roman peculiarities of accentuation of words, and curious intonations of voice.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Bailey, Sen. _ It is, therefore, quite as requisite that a Frenchman should be provided with a good French and English phrase-book, as that an Englishman should have an English and French Manual.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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