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pu lancer et maintenir
Dans le cas des Chroniques de Cybérie, nous avons pu lancer et maintenir une formule en raison des coûts d'entrée relativement faibles dans ce médium.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

profusely laughing extraordinarily merry
Humorous they are beyond all measure, sometimes profusely laughing, extraordinarily merry, and then again weeping without a cause, (which is familiar with many gentlewomen,) groaning,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

partem Lambinus Edd magna
[133] magnam autem partem Lambinus, Edd.; magna autem parte MSS.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

probability likeness exhibition mien
SYN: Advent, coming, arrival, presence, apparition, aspect, Manifestatlon, probability, likeness, exhibition, mien, manner, semblance, air, show, look, pretense, likelihood, presumption.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

propiores levioribus eoque magis
In eas, quae procul erant, naves saxa ingenti pondere emittebat, propiores levioribus eoque magis crebris petebat telis; postremo, ut sui vulnere intacti tela 5 in hostem ingererent, murum ab imo ad summum crebris cubitalibus fere cavis aperuit, per quae cava pars sagittis pars scorpionibus modicis ex occulto petebant hostem.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

promise leal Expect me
To tell the truth and shame the deil, I am as fou as Bartie: But Foorsday, sir, my promise leal, Expect me
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

private life every man
In private life every man, at least every family, was the judge and avenger of his own cause.
— 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

Psychology lures even most
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

paper leaving extant merely
They tore into shreds every scrap of used paper, leaving extant merely the ant-man’s concluding words: “Meanwhile you are my prisoner.”
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

perscribere longum est Margaret
This and several other receipts, quae nunc perscribere longum est, Margaret gave him with sparkling eyes, and Gerard received them like a legacy from Heaven, so interesting are some things that read uninteresting.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

path looking even more
On the way he found the young Willamette runner sitting on a log by the path, looking even more woebegone than he had the day before.
— from The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch

poetica laude et moribus
Parnell, poetica laude, et moribus suavissimis insignis.
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

perfectly legitimate expedients Manchester
“While the ordinary volume of sermons sends people to sleep, this will assuredly keep them awake; and it will, moreover, keep them awake by perfectly legitimate expedients.”— Manchester Examiner.
— from Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius by Mary Agnes, Sister, O.S.B.

plus léger et moins
Turquois et des haubergeons de cuir qu'on pourrait appeler des cuirasses [Footnote: Le haubert et le haubergeon (sorte de haubert plus léger et moins lourd) étoient une sorte de chemise en mailles de fer, laquelle descendoit jusqu'à micuisse.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt


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