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following lines Incedunt pueri pariterque
We meet with a description of it in the fifth book of the Aeneid, beginning with the following lines: Incedunt pueri, pariterque ante ora parentum Fraenatis lucent in equis: quos omnis euntes Trinacriae mirata fremit Trojaeque juventus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Freedom leave independence permission privilege
SYN: Freedom, leave, independence, permission, privilege, license, franchise, immunity, insult, impropriety, volition, voluntariness, exemption.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

fasten locate insert pitch plant
ANT: Fix, fasten, locate, insert, pitch, plant, place.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

first lesson in practical politics
This was the boy's first lesson in practical politics, and a sharp one; not that he troubled himself with moral doubts, but that he learned the nature of a flagrantly corrupt political bargain in which he was too good to take part, but not too good to take profit.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

family life in personal perspective
That we may inherit from this person, that we shall have to walk after the hearse of the other, though sociologically these facts belong to the definition of “family” and “family life,” in personal perspective of what family truly is to us, they normally stand very much in the background.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

free love in Pacific Palisades
Did they still have free love in Pacific Palisades?
— from The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

following lines I play P
The calculation is perfectly simple upon the following lines: I play P-K4, then my pawn is attacked by a pawn and two Knights, a Bishop and two Rooks, six times in all.
— from Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker

few lines Its principal products
But no wonder that so little is known here about South America, when one of the standard School Geographies and most recent publications describes the products of Venezuela in these few lines: “Its principal products are the woods and fruits of the forest and the cattle of the plains.”
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

four ladies in painting photographic
One of the proprietors of a photographic establishment in Philadelphia writes: "I employ from two to four ladies in painting photographic pictures, and pay by the week from $3 to $6.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

fountains lying in profound peace
At last, with faltering step he approached the open gallery, and gazed out on the gardens, with their softly falling fountains, lying in profound peace under the silvery moonlight.
— from Akbar: An Eastern Romance by P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer

first lessons in pianoforte playing
But what is most remarkable in Mr. Logier’s method of teaching is, that, with the very first lessons in pianoforte playing he teaches his pupils harmony at the same time.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

for lodging in places provided
During the Middle Ages there were many legal regulations against "sturdy vagrants" who imposed on people and took the charity out of the mouths of those who deserved it and who abused the opportunities for treatment in hospitals or for lodging in places provided for the poor.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh


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