Do we say done or dun

done 48839 occurrences

She looked quite done for, he thought, and she caught his sleeve.

To a great extent I fear their sentiments on this subject have been held traditionally; and that in many cases, they have not only done nothing themselves, but by example and precept have condemned the activity of others; I trust, however, a brighter day in regard to their labors is approaching.

The Meeting for Sufferings, of Rhode Island, has thus virtually undertaken to do, or at least to originate, all that is to be done, during the present year, by Friends of New England, to help the helpless, and to relieve the oppressed slaves.

He would be a bold antagonist who should enter the lists against him: he would be a yet bolder ally who should attempt to go over the same ground, or to do better what has been done so well.

We stood in a position where many hundreds passed under our review, whose dress, and quiet and orderly demeanor would have done credit to any congregation breaking up from their place of worship.

Even with such a country as India, reduced under British sway, it cannot be done except by diminishing the commerce with other countries to the same extent.

And it can be done.

What has been done already in the way of manufactures, shows that it can be done.

What has been done already in the way of manufactures, shows that it can be done.

"] "William Penn was highly gratified by the consideration of what has been done on this important subject.

The Society itself had already afforded him a precedent, by its resolutions in 1688 and in 1696, as before mentioned, and had thereby done something material in the progress of the work.

We have done nothing to forfeit our right to it; and have come to a conclusion to remain upon it as long as we can enjoy it in peace.'

Formerly the bride was bought by real services done to the father; which was afterwards reduced to presents, and to this time the custom is continued, though the presents are arbitrary.

All this is done with the simplest tools and contrivances.

We find the following curious anecdote translated from a German work, in the last Foreign Quarterly Review: A poor protestant who had fallen from his horse and done himself some serious injury which had obviously ended in derangement, came to a Catholic priest, declaring that he was possessed, and telling a story of almost dramatic interest.

The doctor, he fancied, had done so before, and could only redeem his own soul by putting another in the power of Satan.

Small copies, in water colours, have also been done from it by Miss Sharpe, and Miss Fanny Corbaux.

Repeating his visit he exclaimed, "That fowl will never be done in time.

Messrs. Copeman & Pinhey have, for some years past, done good work in this direction, and at the recent meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects, Mr. Copeman showed several models of the latest types of their life saving apparatus, both for use on torpedo boats and passenger steamers.

In Algeria the Sig and Tlelat dams were destroyed in 1865; and in the United States of America, at Williamsburg, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts, in 1874, an earthwork dam gave way, by which 159 lives were lost and much damage done to property.

Were it possible to cut off at the same point and rotate as positively without a fly wheel, it would be done away with entirely.

At the same instant the compressed air is exhausted from the little piston connected with the balanced steam valve and the steam is automatically throttled, so that only enough steam is admitted to keep the engine turning around, or to overcome the friction, no work being done.

Assuming that we have an air compressor which shows an isothermal pressure line, there would be some loss of power due to clearance space, because we would have a certain volume of air upon which work was done and heat produced, that heat having been absorbed and the air being retained in the cylinder and not serving any useful purpose.

The work done in the steam cylinders, from indicator diagrams, is shown to have been 25,205 pounds, the useful effect being 85½ per cent.

The focusing is done by means of a rack and pinion.

dun 373 occurrences

Frozen rills began to flow, the marmots came out of their nests in boulder-piles and climbed sunny rocks to bask, and the dun-headed sparrows were flitting about seeking their breakfasts.

There were no meadows now to cheer with their brave colors, nor could I hear the dun-headed sparrows, whose cheery notes so often relieve the silence of our highest mountains.

The only pictureor call it atavism if you willwhich adorned Miss Slayback's dun-colored walls was a passe-partout snowscape, night closing in, and pink cottage windows peering out from under eaves.

At seven o'clock, over a dish of lamb stew à la White Kitchen, he confessed, and if Miss Slayback affected too great surprise and too little indignation, try to conceive six nine-hour week-in-and-week-out days of hair-pins and darning-balls, and then, at a heliotrope dusk, James P. Batch, in invitational mood, stepping in between it and the papered walls of a dun-colored evening.

But as Mr. Larkyns advanced towards him in a threatening attitude, he managed to gasp out: "Why, Charles Larkyns, don't you remember me, Verdant Green?" "'Pon my word, old fellow," said his friend, "I thought you were a dun.

Like the great Turke he walkes in his Seraglio, And doth command which concubine best pleases; When he has done he falls to graze or sleepe, And makes as he had never knowne the Dun, White, Red or Brindled Cowe.

A UNIVERSITY DUN Is a gentleman's follower cheaply purchased, for his own money has hired him.

In and out with her black and dun-colored threads she spun her future.

She wove them in with her black and dun colored threads.

PATOU A pheasant-hen wears dun.

Might I not, after having spoken of Dun Scotus's works, say;"he is reported to have surpassed all his contemporaries in subtlety of logic:"yet still mean no other works than those before mentioned?

Oh! send them to the sullen mansions dun, Her baleful eyes where sorrow rolls around; Where gloom-enamour'd mischief loves to dwell, And murder, all blood-bolter'd, schemes the wound.

We have now at work three dun-colored mules, that were transferred to the Army of the Potomac in 1862, and that went through all the campaigns of that army, and were transferred back to us in June, 1865.

I found it very affecting, and the description good, only I saw no seven rings, and where he speaks of the 'pale and livid light,' he should speak rather of the dun and brownish gloom, for the word 'light' disconcerts the fancy, and of either pallor or blue there is there no sign.

On the south-west side of the town, two miles away near the Weymouth road, is the greatest of these prehistoric entrenchments; Mai-dun or "Maiden Castle" is the largest British earthwork in existence.

At Number Three I often see A lover at the door; And one in blue, at Number Two, Calls daily like a dun, It's very hard they come so near And not at Number One.

"These Fate reserv'd to grace thy reign divine, Foreseen by me, but ah! withheld from mine!"Pope, Dun., iii, 215. IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

They employ several adjectives that are not used in prose, or are used but seldom; as, azure, blithe, boon, dank, darkling, darksome, doughty, dun, fell, rife, rapt, rueful, sear, sylvan, twain, wan. XVI.

But during the summer months, when scarcely a shower falls upon the valley, its drifts become dun-colored with dust from the friable soil below, and present an aspect similar to that of the Pyrenees at the same season.

ERSKINE, JOHN, OF DUN, a Scotch Reformer, supported Knox and Wishart; was several times Moderator of the General Assembly, and assisted in the formation of "The Second Book of Discipline" (1509-1591).

The tree-top swayed, quivering, as it held the great dun beast.

He then asked Mr. Bartley where he was to be found; and when Bartley told him at the "Dun Cow," he looked at Mary and said, "Oh!" Mary understood in a moment, and laughed and said: "We are very comfortable, I assure you.

You order the break out, and go to the Dun Cow and do what you can for him.

Little white tents, for the strange workmen to sleep in, dotted the green, and two snowy refreshment tents were pitched outside the Dun Cow.

He wired for a pal of his and established him at the Dun Cow.

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