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prove Prizes let them

In fine, she proved to be a Pyrate Ship of twenty four Guns, commanded by one Cocklyn , who expecting these two would prove Prizes, let them come in, least his getting under Sail might frighten them away.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Phrygian plains Let Titan

You vile abominable tents, Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains, Let Titan rise as early as he dare, I’ll through and through you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

passed pleasantly like the

The evening passed pleasantly like the one preceding.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

primitive psychic life that

Both functions reunite into one, however, if we assume it to be in accord with a primitive psychic life that with the awakening of a memory of a forbidden action there should also be combined the awakening of the tendency to carry out the action.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

persons present like the

The conversation was a difficult one for the lady of the house at a small table with persons present, like the steward and the architect, belonging to a completely different world, struggling not to be overawed by an elegance to which they were unaccustomed, and unable to sustain a large share in the general conversation.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

pearl Poor little thing

Though my wild Muse varies Her note, she don't forget the infant girl Whom he preserved, a pure and living pearl Poor little thing!
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

public property let the

If any one convict in a court of law a stranger or a slave of a theft of public property, let the court determine what punishment he shall suffer, or what penalty he shall pay, bearing in mind that he is probably not incurable.
— from Laws by Plato

Peace plenty love truth

Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror, That were the servants to this chosen infant, Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

pasis preter la tendo

Unu tagon en la daŭro ( course ) de la milito, iuj el la soldatoj pasis preter la tendo de la reĝo, laŭ la ŝtona vojeto laŭ kiu ili ĉiutage marŝis por gardi la tendaron.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

posible por lo tanto

De aquí es posible, por lo tanto, continuar la gira de muchas maneras, sea llegando a La Paz en Bolivia, después de pasar por las ciudades argentinas de Rosario, Tucumán,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

paradoxe pour le transformer

Il n'etois déjà que trop suspect, et il n'eut fallu que ce nouveau paradoxe pour le transformer en hérétique dans le pais d'inquisition.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various

parted Percival learned that

Before they parted, Percival learned that his opponent was Sir Orilus, and that the lady was his wife, whom, ever since that scene in the tent, he had persecuted out of groundless jealousy.
— from Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner

prisoner probably locked the

The prisoner probably locked the door from the outside.
— from The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill

Personal pronoun like the

I never use the first Personal pronoun, like the Monarch LOUIS, Who said (in French—a tongue I deem accurst), " L'etat, c'est moi. "
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917 by Various

panung precisely like the

The dress and undress in Siam afforded variety, the men and women nearly alike, for, as stated in the description in connection with Ayuthia, the women have short hair and wear the panung precisely like the men.
— from Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

Protestant people loving the

A staunch, doggedly Protestant people, loving the New England [pg 41] Puritans and the Anglicans of Eastern Virginia little better than the Maryland Catholics, but contributing more than their full share of traditional antipathy to that extreme dislike and dread of the Roman Church which showed itself half-a-century ago in the burning of convents, and thirty years ago gave life and fire to the Know-Nothing movement.
— from Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert

Paris precisely like the

In this way I learn that the beauty of women from the country is, at Paris, precisely like the wit of country gentleman.
— from Analytical Studies by Honoré de Balzac

Poets pages learn the

We will turn the Poets' pages, learn the noblest deeds to act, Till the fictions in their beauty shall be lived as simple fact.
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

poor poet let the

I protest that from the first, though I knew he had under his wicked thumb the hard-earned wealth of a notoriously poor poet (let the double-faced phrase, which I did not mean to write, stand there, under my hand, to all posterity), yet I never felt one yearning towards it, nor conceived the hope of revenge.
— from Patrins To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second by Louise Imogen Guiney

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