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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
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I now set to work to cure myself, which by use of hot fomentations and lint dipped in θ tincture of Belladonna externally, taking at the same time 3d dil.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
For the beginning of a common cold.—Aconite 2X dil.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
Khodadad fled in safety to a residence close to the British border, and Sher dil Khan was elected and proclaimed Khan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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