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palace Publius Cornelius Scipio
O supreme Sun, and ye also, ye other celestial beings, that before I depart from this life I behold in my kingdom, and in this my palace, Publius Cornelius Scipio, by whose mere name I seem to be reanimated; so completely and indelibly is the recollection of that best and most invincible of men, Africanus, imprinted in my mind.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

pretty popular cause such
The pretty, popular cause such manhood earns, Could call him the main cause of all their crime; Yea, were he not crowned King, coward, and fool.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

permanence persistence conservation sequence
ANT: Verticality, erectness, stability, permanence, persistence, conservation, sequence, fixity, state, order.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

pieno pero che si
Io non posso ritrar di tutti a pieno, pero` che si` mi caccia il lungo tema, che molte volte al fatto il dir vien meno.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poēsin poetry Charybdin similarly
But the accusative sometimes has -n : as, poēsin , poetry , Charybdin ; similarly Capyn ; and a vocative occurs: as, Charybdi .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

pale pale corpse she
A pale, pale corpse she floated by, Dead cold, between the houses high, Dead into towered Camelot.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

plentiful purse could still
All who have spent a winter in Rome remember the frugal entertainment offered, so that an artist with no plentiful purse could still ask a prince to visit him.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

Philadelphia Pittsburg Cincinnati St
The Movement in Europe—Present Plans of the Reds—Stringent Measures Adopted by Various European Governments—Bebel and Liebknecht—A London Celebration—Whitechapel Outcasts—“Blood, Blood, Blood!”—Verestchagin’s Views—The Bulwarks of Society—The Condition of Anarchy in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other American Cities—A New Era of Revolutionary Activity—A Fight to the Death—Are we Prepared?
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

PURCHASE PREPARATION COOKING SERVING
CHAPTER IX—FOOD—ITS FUNCTION, PURCHASE, PREPARATION, COOKING, SERVING GOOD COOKING FOOD CHARTS DIGESTION CHARTS TABLE OF WEIGHTS
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson

peacocks pheasants canaries swans
At Abergwili he extended his affections to birds, and kept peacocks, pheasants, canaries, swans, and tame geese, which he regularly fed every morning, no matter what 138 the weather might be.
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

predestinate Pope could so
102 Freethought had achieved something when a Roman Cardinal, a predestinate Pope, could so write to an avowed freethinker.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

particular profession can she
"What particular profession can she fill by dashing over the country in that style?" continued the parent with a smile.
— from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges by Edward Sylvester Ellis

pure Photographic Chemicals suited
GEORGE KNIGHT & SONS., Foster Lane, London, Manufacturers of Photographic Apparatus and Materials, consisting of Cameras, Stands, Coating Boxes, Pressure Frames, Glass and Porcelain Dishes. &c., and pure Photographic Chemicals, suited for practising the Daguerreotype, Talbotype, Waxed-Paper, Albumen and Collodion Processes, adapted to stand any Climate, and fitted for the Requirements of the Tourist or Professional Artist.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

political party considers should
We have seen that it consists of a political party so far dominant that the Trades Unions and all that is articulate in the country may be considered as part of a machinery of propaganda, for getting those things done which that political party considers should be done.
— from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome

political power contribute so
And in no country does the agricultural population exercise such a controlling political power, contribute so much to the wealth, or tend so strongly to give an impress to the character of a nation as in the United States.
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin


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