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peperī partus For forms
With the present stem in -i o | e- ( 836 ). pariō , bring forth parere peperī partus For forms in -īre , see 791 . com-periō , 1012 ; re-periō , 1011 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Pierce Penniless For fashion
One solution is found (by those who admit that Hamlet was thirty) in a passage in Nash's Pierce Penniless : 'For fashion sake some [Danes] will put their children to schoole, but they set them not to it till they are fourteene years old, so that you shall see a great boy with a beard learne his A.B.C. and sit weeping under the rod when he is [404] thirty years old.'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

passport Passagier Fahrgast Fluggast
im Firmengelände on-site parking parken; Park park Parkinsons Gesetz Parkinson's Law Parkplatz parking place Parkuhr parking meter Parkwächter parking attendant Partei party Partei; Gesellschaft party Parteien des Vertrags parties to a contract partielle Analyse partial analysis Partnerschaft partnership Pass passport Passagier; Fahrgast; Fluggast passenger Passagiergut registered luggage Passant passer-by passend fitting passend machen mit match with passender Stuhl matching chair Passiva; Verbindlichkeiten liabilities passive Handelsbilanz passive trade balance Passivposten debit item Passivposten der Bilanz liabilities Passivsaldo debit balance Passivzinsen interest payable Passkontrolle passport control Passus; Absatz passage Patent patent Patentamt patent office Patentanmelder patent applicant Patentanmeldung patent application Patentantrag patent application Patentanwalt patent agent Patentbeschreibung patent description patentfähig patentable patentiert patented Patentinhaber owner of a patent Patentverlängerung extension of a patent pauschal flat Pauschalbetrag lump sum pauschale Studie over-all study Pauschalgebühr overall charge Pauschalgeschäft package deal Pauschalpreis flat fee Pauschalpreis lump sum Pauschalreise package tour Pauschalsatz lump rate Pauschalversicherung open policy Pendler commuter Penny penny Penny (pl.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Pluto pour forth from
The minions of Pluto pour forth from the portals of darkness That yawn: the serpent-haired Fury, Bellona the Savage, Megoera with firebrands, destruction, and treachery, livid Death’s likeness!
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

perfect participles formed from
Most perfect participles formed from vowel roots have a long root vowel: as, lātus , borne ( 169 , 1 ); nātus , born ; -plētus , filled ; trītus , worn ; nōtus , known ; sūtus , sewed .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

patriam populumque fluxit From
Hoc fonte derivata clades, / In patriam, populumque fluxit —From this source the disaster flowed that has overwhelmed the nation and the people.
— 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.

ploro pestem fugo festa
Hor. Laudo Deum verum, plebem voco, congrego 5 clerum, / Defunctos ploro, pestem fugo, festa decoro —I praise the true God, I summon the people, I call together the clergy, I bewail the dead, I put to flight the plague, I celebrate festivals.
— 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.

PASSIVE Pres ferô ferimus
Stem lât- Indicative ACTIVE PASSIVE Pres. ferô ferimus feror ferimur fers fertîs ferris, -re ferimimî fert ferunt fertur feruntur Impf.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

prevent Perdita from following
However it might be, neither plague nor war could prevent Perdita from following her lord, or induce her to utter one objection to the plans which he proposed.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

portrait parle fresh from
We've just imported this new 'portrait parle' fresh from Paris and London, invented by Bertillon and all that sort of thing - it has gone to pieces, too.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

prospective purchaser from Fort
Fortunately a firm, which was expecting our arrival, had a prospective purchaser from Fort Worth for about our number.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

primitive people feels for
Other causes which have made so many of the borderland Albanians—to speak only of them—turn their eyes to Yugoslavia are the admiration which any primitive people feels for military prowess and the knowledge of [297] what has taken place in the Prizren-Peć-Djakovica region since it came into possession of the Serbs in 1913.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

perfect passion for fine
She had developed a perfect passion for fine pictures and statues, and he knew that she would be charmed with the works of the old masters that were gathered in this famous gallery—the Titians, Murillos, Guidos, Raphaels—all the glorious men who, by brush or chisel, had handed down their names to an immortal fame.
— from Laurel Vane; or, The Girls' Conspiracy by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

provide perfect facilities for
The spacious bathrooms were lined with artistic tiles; electric lights had been adjusted in the chambers so as to provide perfect facilities for reading in bed; once a week an attendant called to wind all the clocks in the house.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

purely pastoral free from
Like the Ameto , lastly, but unlike its Spanish and English successors, the Arcadia is purely pastoral, free from any chivalric admixture.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Powers partly from fear
The French Government was desperately anxious that England should not separate herself from the other Powers, partly from fear that such action would cause European complications, and partly because it was particularly desirous of getting credit with Russia for having brought English opinion round to Russian views.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

Proudman Paillard French for
Names like Proud , Proudfoot , Proudman , Paillard (French for "lie-a-bed") show that the first people who had [33] them were not so well liked, and were considered proud or lazy.
— from Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

property passed freely from
All property passed freely from hand to hand.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen


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