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peu pour savoir les chances
Un jeune vaurien, qui espérait hériter un jour de son oncle, voulait le sonder un peu pour savoir les chances qu'il courait de réaliser son ambition.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

placer poser sur le corps
mettre , placer; poser sur le corps comme vêtement.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

portion part share lot Cp
(p. dæl-as, -e) portion, part, share, lot , Cp, Bl, Gu (ā), VPs ; AO, CP: division, separation , Æ (ā): quantity, amount , Lcd : region, district , AO.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

PULLO PEPPER SHALLOTS LOVAGE CUMIN
[213] ANOTHER WAY OF COOKING CRANE, DUCK OR CHICKEN ALITER IN GRUE [ VEL ] IN ANATE VEL IN PULLO PEPPER, SHALLOTS, LOVAGE, CUMIN, CELERY SEED, PRUNES OR DAMASCUS PLUMS STONES REMOVED, FRESH MUST, VINEGAR [1] BROTH, REDUCED MUST AND OIL.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

plurale pro singulari Lex Chaldaicum
אלהים , plurale pro singulari: Lex Chaldaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum; in verb.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

present Please said Lady Caroline
"To my mind," said Lord Marshmoreton, coming to the surface once more, "the proper attitude to adopt on occasions like the present—" "Please," said Lady Caroline.
— from A Damsel in Distress by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

petits pieds sous la chemise
Les petits pieds sous la chemise Se sauvèrent: "Veux-tu finir!"
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

Pontius Pilate said Lord Cadurcis
'Well, I always have a prejudice against Pontius Pilate,' said Lord Cadurcis; 'and I think it is from seeing him, when I was a child, on an old Dutch tile fireplace at Marringhurst, dressed like a burgomaster.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

parte prompta se le consigue
“Memorial de Antonio Augustin, cesionario del Capitan Gaspar Ximenez Negrete: suplica que deuiendosele, como se le deue, 1387 rs. de plata como tal cesionario en parte prompta, se le consigue dicha cantidad en el arca de tres llaves de Oran”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Parsnip Pastinaca sativa L C
Parsnip Pastinaca sativa L. C(?)
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor


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