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perfect participle in tus preceded by
-ī- , and the perfect participle in -tus , preceded by short -i- of the root: cieō , set a going ciēre cīvī citus Somewhat defective; also with a form in -īre ( 821 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

psychical power into the physical body
[620] Again, in extreme old age people who have come to have an imperfect memory or none at all in their normal consciousness, under abnormal conditions (which seemingly are due to a temporary influx of a latent psychical power into the physical body and brain, or else to an awakening of a dormant force within the physical body and brain themselves) often regain, for a time, complete and clear memory of their childhood.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

princely poet in the phrase bartering
—The allusion of the princely poet in the phrase, “bartering their honour on the Nauroza,” requires some explanation.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

part played in the past by
"Having regard to the part played in the past by financiers in the wars between civilised nations, the security of the League of Nations will be threatened if the millionaires of to-day come under the spell of that great poet, who, with all his excellent qualities, directed his genius so persistently to the praise of warfare."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Various

prominent places in the private boxes
No less a person than President Hayes and wife and party with General Sherman had prominent places in the private boxes.
— from Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

particular propriety in this place but
This epithet has no particular propriety in this place, but the author had heard of Graecia Mendax .
— from Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson

Peter puts it the precious blood
We do know this, however, for it is the oft-repeated truth of Scripture, that the life, or, as St. Peter puts it, "the precious blood of Christ," was, in a certain sense, our ransom, the price of our redemption.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St Luke by Henry Burton

part played in this process by
The part played in this process by the cruder populations must not be underestimated.
— from Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie

present paper is that published by
The text used to represent Roger in the present paper is that published by De Renzi (Collectio Salernitana,
— from Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson

proud place in the procession but
It was well indeed that Paxton should have a proud place in the procession; but he held it in no representative capacity; he was there not in behalf of Architecture but of the Crystal Palace.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

prominent part in the perineal band
that, knowing that among the Roro and Mekeo people a brother or other male relative of the child’s mother takes a prominent part in the perineal band ceremony, being the recipient of the dog or pig which is killed, and the person who puts the band upon the boy, I specially enquired as to any similar relationship on the part of the person who buys the pig and performs the ceremony among the Mafulu, but I could find no trace of anything of the sort.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson


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