SYN: Commencement, start, origin, rise, initiation, preparation, preface, prelude, inauguration, inception, threshold, opening, source, outset, foundation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

possum pos´sumus possim possî´mus potes potes´tis possîs possî´tis potest possunt possit possint Impf.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

In our times indeed this might perhaps be necessary; for if we collected votes whether pure rational knowledge separated from everything empirical, that is to say, metaphysic of morals, or whether popular practical philosophy is to be preferred, it is easy to guess which side would preponderate.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

In this speech Don Quixote wound up the evidence of his madness, but still better in what he added when he said, "God knows, I would gladly take Don Lorenzo with me to teach him how to spare the humble, and trample the proud under foot, virtues that are part and parcel of the profession I belong to; but since his tender age does not allow of it, nor his praiseworthy pursuits permit it, I will simply content myself with impressing it upon your worship that you will become famous as a poet if you are guided by the opinion of others rather than by your own; because no fathers or mothers ever think their own children ill-favoured, and this sort of deception prevails still more strongly in the case of the children of the brain."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

SYN: Anteriority, priority, precursorship, premonition, Introduction, preparation, pre-existence.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

O.M. It could drive lathes, drills, planers, punches, polishers, in a word all the cunning machines of a great factory?
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

"Between this gentleman, Mr. William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, and myself."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

That I had never heard of the verb poteein, but that potamos, potema, and potos, were derived from pino, poso, pepoka, in consequence of which, the Greek poets never use any other word for festal drinking.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

[The Country Parson.] PASTELOT, priest in 1845, in the Saint-Francois church in the Marais, on the street now called rue Charlot; watched over the dead body of Sylvain Pons.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

possum pos´sumus possim possī´mus potes potes´tis possīs possī´tis potest possunt possit possint Impf.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Yes, sing it, won't you?" Mollie sang the first verse,— "Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin."
— from A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War by L. T. Meade

"Or her taste for peculiar people," put in Mrs. Archer in a dry tone, while her eyes dwelt innocently on her son's.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Putting, pound, potassium, pot, porter; initial p, mediant t—that was his idea, poor little boy!
— from Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

581-562; but draft dated " Westmonasterio, May 19, 1655 " in the Skinner Transcript, the Printed Collection, and Phillips. 2: One of the phrases in this letter about the poor Piedmontese Protestants is " nunc sine tare, sine teoto, ... per monies desertos atque nives, cum conjugibus ac liberis, miserrime vagantur ."
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

One grew to feel that the nearer elements, those of land and water and sky at their loveliest, were making thus, day after day, a particular prodigious point, insisting in their manner on a sense and a wondrous story which it would be the restless watcher's fault if he didn't take in.
— from Within the Rim, and Other Essays, 1914-15 by Henry James

The reasons for the frequent failure to produce psychic phenomena in presence of avowed sceptics has been fully discussed in a previous chapter of this book, to which the reader is referred.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson

The news brought by the Magellanes very soon filtered through the fleet, and was to the effect that her skipper had been sent from Valparaiso to inform the admiral that the Peruvian President Prado intended to leave Callao, on the night of May 16, for Arica, in the paddle-transport Oroya ; and that he was to be accompanied by the Independencia, Huascar, Chalaco , and Limena .
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

In exhibiting the causes, which injure the health of the mind, they will be found to be partly physical, partly intellectual, and partly moral.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher