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a predicate is called a phrase
A group of connected words, not containing a subject and a predicate, is called a phrase.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

a professional is called a pro
The stage-manager is familiarly termed “daddy;” and an actor by profession, or aprofessional,” is called apro.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

a professional is called a PRO
The stage manager is familiarly termed DADDY ; and an actor by profession, or aprofessional,” is called a PRO .
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

and put in cases as presents
The sailors bring home skins of foreign birds, and want them stuffed and put in cases, as presents for their wives and sweethearts.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Above practised in China at present
in Zuñi social system, 202 , 203 , 204 ; priests of, represented without beards on sculptures at Copan and Quirigua, 231 , 232 ; moon symbol of cult, 267 ; cultivation of maize, by daughter of, 276 ; symbolized by quadruped, 282 ; vase, emblem of, 283 ; associated with square form, and darkness; influence on primitive architecture and symbolism, 284 ; flower used as symbol of, 284 ; in China, 285 , 288 , 290 , 307 ; in Hindu religion, cult of Siva, 314 ; in Persian religion, 325 ; in Assyrian and Babylonia cult, 334 , 336 , 338 , 339 ; cult combined with that of Above practised in China at present time, 344 ; Baal, Phœnician god of Earth, 351 ; in Egypt, 381 ; symbolized in Scandinavia by Thor's hammer, 474 ; table of countries where traces of cult have been found, 480 ; summary and conclusions, 544 .
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

and pains in collecting and publishing
It may be that all the claims are true which are made above their names in the Address to the Reader as to their care and pains in collecting and publishing his works "so to have publish'd them as where before you were abused with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed, the stealthes of injurious copyists, we expos'd them; even those are now offer'd to your view, crude and bereft of their limbes, and of the rest absolutely in their parts as he conceived them who as he was a happie imitator of nature was a most gentle expresser of it.
— from An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. (Henry Noble) MacCracken

a preposition is called a Prepositional
A phrase introduced by a preposition is called a +Prepositional Phrase+.
— from Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

a place in cleanly and polite
How painful to see young men in our scientific and literary institutions—men, who are soon to lead in our national councils, to shape the morals and the manners of the circles of society, in which they will move—making themselves downright sick, day after day, and week after week, in order to form a habit of [31] taking a disgusting poison, steeping their nerves and their intellects in its narcotic influence, the direct tendencies of which are to impair their health, to enfeeble their minds, and to disqualify them for a place in cleanly and polite society.
— from An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health by R. D. (Reuben Dimond) Mussey

another place is called a pressing
This running in another place is called a pressing.
— from The Heavenly Footman; Or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven With Directions How to Run So as to Obtain by John Bunyan

and poor Irish cabin and prayers
Did it bring, in one wild burning moment, father and mother, and poor Irish cabin, and prayers said at bed-time, and the smell of turf fires, and innocent sweethearting, and rising and setting suns?
— from Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

Americans practice it constitutes a problem
If tipping is immoral, the fact that 5,000,000 Americans practice it constitutes a problem of first rate importance.
— from The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America by William R. (William Rufus) Scott


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