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3 total sentences available.
The logician as such, with his predilection for water-tight compartments in the realm of ideas, is not concerned with what to me as a linguist seems a most important question, viz. how is it to be explained that a sequence of sounds with no meaning at all suddenly from non-connotative becomes connotative, and that this new full meaning is at once accepted by the whole speaking community?
Source: tatoeba (9940633)
The metamorphosis of insects, which I have previously mentioned as one of their most essential attributes, consists of four distinct stages, viz., the Egg, Larva, Pupa, and Imago.
Source: tatoeba (11977504)
We both shared the same ambition, viz. to make lots of money and to retire at 40.
Source: tatoeba (12394680)
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