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Palpitate korbati palpiti
Palpitate , korbati, palpiti.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

pagunáha kay pára
Ayaw táwun ku pagunáha kay pára rúmans ra ba ning kamúta, Don’t make me weed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

pt kól pp
Icel. kala (pt. kól , pp. kalinn ).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

parit Kindness produces
Gratia gratiam parit —Kindness produces kindness.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Public Knowledge publicknowledge
EFF has a huge, deep website with amazing information aimed at a general audience, as do the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org) , Public Knowledge (publicknowledge.org) , FreeCulture (freeculture.org) , Creative Commons (creativecommons.org) -- all of which also are worthy of your support.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Persian king placed
With the assistance of the discontented nobles the Persian king placed his son Sapor on the throne of the Eastern division; the Western at the same time was united to the Roman empire, and called the Greater Armenia.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Prokofievna knew perfectly
But Lizabetha Prokofievna knew perfectly well how unnecessary was the last question.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

phleba kai panth
Ostoun dê kai chondron kai neuron kai hymena kai syndesmon kai phleba kai panth' hosa toiauta kata tên prôtên tou zôou genesin hê physis apergazetai dynamei chrômenê katholou men eipein tê gennêtikê te kai alloiô|| 13 tikê, kata meros de thermantikê te kai psyktikê kai xêrantikê
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

PUU KUMU Pu
PUU KUMU— Pu’u kumu , stump hill.
— from Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii by George Cornelius Ruhle

Peter Kennedy played
So they sat there together whilst Peter Kennedy played, and every now and then Anne said from the sofa: “How delicious!
— from Twilight by Julia Frankau

panaway kay pislat
Ayaw ug panaway kay pislat ka man sad kaáyu, Don’t ever criticize for your nose is flat, too.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

People Kosovo Population
Drini i Bardhe/Beli Drim 297 m (located on the border with Albania) highest point: Gjeravica/Deravica 2,565 m Natural resources: nickel, lead, zinc, magnesium, lignite, kaolin, chrome, bauxite People Kosovo Population: 2,126,708 (2007 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

physical knowledge Pg
They wanted to have a little physical knowledge [Pg 195] at their back, possibly in the form of empirical psychology (like the Herbartians), or perhaps a little history; and then they could at least make a public show of behaving scientifically, although in their hearts they may wish all philosophy and all science at the devil.
— from Thoughts Out of Season, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

power kept pace
The expansion of this element of naval power kept pace with the activity of the shipyards.
— from The German Fleet Being The Companion Volume to "The Fleets At War" and "From Heligoland To Keeling Island by Archibald Hurd

paternal king passed
The case of Mezentius does indeed show that Virgil recognised the ultimate right of rebellion when the paternal king passed into the tyrannical oppressor; but such an instance affords no scope for representing the manifestation of political passions and virtues.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

pheromenous kai pasaen
[Greek: Deiknuto de eti para tois enantiois kai petomenous hippous dia tinos manganeias kai hoplitas di aeros pheromenous, kai pasaen goaeteias dunamin kai hidean.]
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson


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