"I say I have, by this time, more than a tolerable experience, not only of French salons , but also of those over which foreign residents in Paris preside.
— from The Cockaynes in Paris; Or, 'Gone abroad' by Blanchard Jerrold
This forced the stream still farther west, until it finally reached its present position across a sandstone ridge or plain, much higher than its former course.
— from The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology by Rollin D. Salisbury
Its silent, unobserved force results in producing pathological conditions, and those, by reflex action, excite morbid sensibilities of the mind and thus derange the nerve centres, resulting in a changed condition or over-excitability of the nerve energies, which becomes a secondary diseased condition in the form of different types of neurasthenia.
— from Mind and Body; or, Mental States and Physical Conditions by William Walker Atkinson
Fred responded immediately, "Peach pie," [219] for he was addressing the young lady who had sent the pie with her compliments when we were on the Montana road.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge
This Newstead fragment, retaining its perfect proportions, its noble windows, its gray statue of the Virgin and "God-born Child" in the high niche of the gable,—the whole
— from A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
Pater father patrician, patrimony Patior, passus suffer impatient, passion Pello, pulsum drive propeller, repulse Pendeo, pensum hang pendulum, appendix Pendo, pensum weigh compendium, expense Pes, pedis foot expedite, biped Peto seek impetus, compete *Plaudo, plausum clap, applaud explode, plausible *Plecto, plexum braid perplex, complexion *Pleo, pletum fill complement, expletive *Plus, pluris more surplus, plural Plico, plicatum fold reply, implicate Pono, positum place opponent, deposit Porto carry report, porter Potens, potentis powerful impotent, potential Prendo, prehensum seize comprehend, apprise *Primus, primatis first primary, primate Probo, probatum prove improbable, reprobate *
— from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
On this road, seven miles from Rome, is Prima Porta, where are the ruins of the Villa of Livia , wife of Augustus, and mother of Tiberius.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare
Not ȝou, nor ȝit the kyng Latyn, but les, That wont was forto ryng in plesand pes, Will I argew of this maner offens: For suyth I wait, the wilfull violens 30
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil
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