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Example sentences for "dama"

Lexicographically close words:
dallying; dalmatic; dalmatica; dalus; dam; damage; damaged; damages; damaging; damals
  1. Briefly, his house, his furniture, his food, Were uniformly plain, and simply good.

  2. Baroja in the preface to the Nelson edition of La Dama Errante ("The Wandering Lady").

  3. Probably a book like la Dama Errante is not of the sort that lives very long; it is not a painting with aspirations towards the museum but an impressionist canvas; perhaps as a work it has too much asperity, is too hard, not serene enough.

  4. The following, again from the preface of La Dama Errante, is Baroja's own statement of his aims.

  5. I see my Dama every day; but I feel seriously uneasy about her health, which seems very precarious.

  6. A doomed man hasn't any, take the word of the Dama Mayor.

  7. But," and he quoted from the Ritual in triumph, "no Dama can present herself except on matters of service.

  8. In this kind No siempre lo peor es cierto, La Dama duende, Una casa con dos puertas mala es de guardar and Guárdate del agua mansa are almost unsurpassed.

  9. Yorodzu-dama no Kami is not the God of ten thousand spirits, but the God of ten thousand offerings.

  10. Motooeri says that any God who has done service by "making" a country or province is worshipped in that province as the Kuni-dama or Oho-kuni-dama.

  11. Before this the two Gods Ama-terasu no Oho-kami and Yamato no Oho-kuni-dama were worshipped together within the Emperor's Great Hall.

  12. It shows that he was regarded as one of the Kuni-dama or earth-deities mentioned above.

  13. Eleasar ben Dama of a poisonous bite by a serpent in the name of Jesus, but his uncle, R.

  14. As the Bible holds up Job, the Bedouin Sheik, as the pattern of a blameless servant of God and true lover of mankind,(1257) so the Talmud cites the Philistine Dama ben Nethina as an example of filial piety.

  15. To be quite sure of his prey, Dama stole away so as to approach Onesimus from behind, and coming up to him tapped him smartly on the shoulder and said ‘Onesimus.

  16. The crowd fell back awe-struck before the awful name of Cæsar, and Dama despatched a slave to bring fetters from Nero’s villa hard by.

  17. Onesimus tried to dart away in flight, but the remorseless hand of Dama clutched his shoulder with too tight a grasp, and with a gesture of despair he remained silent.

  18. On the whole, perhaps, the best account of the Duende will be found in Calderon's spritely comedy, named La Dama Duende.

  19. Slaves had only one name before their freedom; after it they were admitted to a prænomen, like our christened names: so Dama is now called Marcus Dama.

  20. In short, by the testimonies of other ancient authors, we find, that the dama was a timid and peaceable animal, who had no other resource for his safety than in the swiftness of his running.

  21. Besides, this animal, which Caius has described, is furnished with beard like a goat, and not one of the ancients has spoken of the dama as having a beard.

  22. I am inclined therefore to believe that this dama of Caius is only a goat, whose horns being a little bent at their extremities, like those of the common gazelle, made him imagine it to be the dama of the ancients.

  23. The nanguer, or dama of the ancients; 10.

  24. As these are the only animals who have their horns bent in this manner, we may presume that the nanguer of Africa, is the dama of the ancients; especially, as Pliny says in another place, that the dama is only to be found in Africa.

  25. Uddhava" is Dama (restraint of the senses).

  26. Dama Ghosa, the father of Sisupala, also made grand preparations.

  27. The Fallow Deer (Dama vulgaris) is smaller than the stag, but similar to it in colour, form, and habit.

  28. And if it should be that Dama Ecciva hath been receiving these letters and holding such part in these intrigues--to leave her where she hath free access to the court-circle.

  29. The man's manner was insistent: he had been shown a jewel of value that should be his if he brought the Bernardini back with him, and such fidelity as might thus be purchased, Dama Ecciva could count upon.

  30. Dama Ecciva asked lightly, but unconsciously opening and closing her slender henna-stained fingers, straining them into the soft palms with strenuous motions, while she waited for her companion's reply.

  31. Could I risk any hurt to thee, cara Dama Margherita, if duty of plainest speech were not imperative?

  32. When the first days of the shock of the child's death had passed, and the Queen had roused herself to notice those who were anxiously watching her, she asked to be left alone with Dama Margherita: but of the child she would not speak.

  33. Dama Margherita, her voice ringing through the hall like a leader's call to arms; "to bring news of her to her own!

  34. Truly it is hard for thee, my poor Dama Ecciva; but in thy heart thou knowest that the penalty could not be less.

  35. But she also is a Dama di Maridaggio--she also.

  36. Nay; for we are only we--not the Dama Margherita; nor the Lady of the Bernardini.

  37. Dama Ecciva broke off some oleander blossoms and flung them at the royal birds with teasing motion, watching them contentedly as, one by one, they floated away with ruffled plumage and sounds of protest.

  38. My Lords," cried Dama Margherita, fearlessly, "the writing on this parchment is not true.

  39. The crime of Morral forms the basis of Baroja's novel La Dama Errante.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dama" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    damage caused; damage done