"papabot" hidden in books

perch and put a brake on the

Winter drove Cyrus from his perch and put a brake on the thunder-wagon before the job was quite finished.
— from Our Square and the People in It by Samuel Hopkins Adams

poetry and purity and beauty of this

I should have to be a poet, indeed, to describe half the happiness and the silly poetry and purity and beauty of this bright long summer's day.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

pagodas a procession a barge on the

Temples and pagodas, a procession, a barge on the river and a gathering in a tea-house follow in succession about the room.
— from Old Time Wall Papers An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls with a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and Decoration by Kate Sanborn

personages as prelates and barons of the

By this arrangement, an hereditary seat in the legislature was restricted to the magnates, with whom sat likewise such official personages as prelates and barons of the kingdom.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

PALIO AND PONTE A Book of Tuscan

PALIO AND PONTE: A Book of Tuscan Games.
— from The Substance of Faith Allied with Science (6th Ed.) A Catechism for Parents and Teachers by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

parrots and peacocks are birds of the

[152] "It is not like the Sea of India, whose bottom is rich with pearls and ambergris, whose mountains of the coast are stored with gold and precious stones, whose gulfs breed creatures that yield ivory, and among the plants of whose shores are ebony, red wood, and the wood of Hairzan, aloes, camphor, cloves, sandal-wood, and all other spices and aromatics; where parrots and peacocks are birds of the forest, and musk and civit are collected upon the lands.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

papers and put a book on them

Aunt Zeruah looks in at eight, and at a quarter past, and at half past, and at nine, and at ten, to see if I am done, so that she may fold up the papers and put a book on them, and lock up the books in their cases.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

pope as Pope and Bishop of the

The holy oils were blessed, not in St. Peter's, but in St. John Lateran's; for St. Peter's is the cathedral of the pope as Pope and Bishop of the Catholic Church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

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