A camel is, so to speak, a ship on the desert.

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In three days—that is to say, on Monday next—matters will be ripe, and the Professor, with all the principal members of his gang, will be in the hands of the police.

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Standard Chinese, commonly referred to as Mandarin, is based on Pekinese.

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She will return home next Sunday, that is, the tenth.

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My father died three years ago, that is to say in 1977.

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Tomorrow, I want to go to Madrid. It is the capital city of Spain.

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Tamori was born in 1945, that is, when World War II ended.

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He came to Tokyo five years ago, that is to say, when he was twelve years old.

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Apparently we're just two peas in a pod.

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