Del
[del] or [dɛl]
Definition
(n.) Share; portion; part.
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Examples
- They had dismounted on the road between Segovia and Santa Maria del Real. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The battle of Molino del Rey was fought on the 8th of September. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I entered Eternal Rome by the Porta del Popolo, and saluted with awe its time-honoured space. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You know the Grotto del Cane at Naples, Maurice, where a man can enter freely, but a dog dies? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Molino del Rey and Chapultepec would both have been necessarily evacuated if this course had been pursued, for they would have been turned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In later years, if not at the time, the battles of Molino del Rey and Chapultepec have seemed to me to have been wholly unnecessary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Patterson reached Plan del Rio with his division soon after Twiggs arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They celebrate the anniversaries of Chapultepec and Molino del Rey as of very great victories. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His emotions responded to the glories of tropica l vegetation in the Brazilian forests, and to the sublimity of Patagonian wastes and the forest-cl ad hills of Tierra del Fuego. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- More than a mile west, and also a little above the plain, stands Molino del Rey. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is on the Plaza del Callao. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He took up his residence in the fine old Torre del Gallo, which looks down on Florence and the river Arno, and went on with his work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As for Sebastian del Piombo there, you would judge for yourself; if it were not his later manner, the question was, Who was it? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One here and the other over the Alto del Leon near the Escorial. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On April 4th the Bell telephone engineers were successful in transmitting speech from a radio station at Montauk Point, on Long Island, to Wilmington, Del. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was at Tierra del Fuego that he was particul arly shocked. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The loss on our side at Molino del Rey was severe for the numbers engaged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Andrea del Sarto glorified his princes in pictures that must save them for ever from the oblivion they merited, and they let him starve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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