Example Sentences
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"Ranjish hee sahi," says one Facebook update, "dil hee dukhaane ke liye aa!"
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
Jalil didn’t have the dil either, Nana said, to do the honorable thing.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
No more Oi am; but Porrfeeus dil Noort is a moighty dangerous mon, and he——" "Is dead.
From Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win by Burt L. Standish
Give two drops four times a day of 3X dil.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
When afterwards asked if he was not afraid to hit the Sahib, 'I was very much afraid indeed,' he replied, 'but dil mazbut karke lagaya: I nerved myself for the occasion.'
From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Sir Samuel White Baker
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