As soon as stock has accumulated in the hands of particular persons, some of them will naturally employ it in setting to work industrious people, whom they will supply with materials and subsistence, in order to make a profit by the sale of their work, or by what their labour adds to the value of the materials. — from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
police post simply out
He had the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he had plundered a police post simply out of bravado. — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Now it is quite undeniable that, of these four states of things, each is, a priori , possible , some one must be true, and the other three must be false. — from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
and, possibly a mispelling--should be an' onlike, unlike, onsays, unsays, ony, any, onybody, anybody; anyone, onything, anything, ook, week, ooks, weeks, oor, our, 'oor, hour, oors, ours, oorsel's, ourselves, oot, out, ootcast, outcast, oots, outs, ootside, outside, opingon, opinion, opingons, opinions, opposit, opposite, or, before; ere; until; by, also or ordinar, ordinary; usual; natural, also custom; habit ordinar', ordinary; usual; natural, also custom; habit orra, odd job (man); exceptional; over all, also idle o't, of it, oucht, anything; all, also ought ouchtna, ought not, oursel's, ourselves, ow, oh, exclamation of surprise ower, over; upon; too, owerta'en, overtaken, oye, grandchild; grandson; nephew, pailace, palace, paintit, painted, pairt, part, pandies, strokes on the palm with a cane, papistry, Romanism; Popery, Paradees, Paradise, parritch, oatmeal porridge, partic'lar, particular, pat, put; made, peacefu', peaceful, pecks, blows; strikes, pernickety, precise; particular; fastidious, also difficult to please perris, parish, piana, piano, picter, picture; sight; spectacle, pictur', picture, piece, slice of bread; lunch, pint, point, pipit, piped; played the (bag)pipes, pirn, reel; bobbin, on which thread is wound pit, put; make, pitawta, potato, pits, puts; makes, pitten, put; made, plack, the smallest coin, worth 1/3 of a penny plaguit, plagued; troubled, plaid, plaid used as a blanket, plaistered, plastered, plash-mill, fulling-mill, playacks, playthings; toys, play-actin', acting, playin', playing, playt, played, pliskie, trick; prank; practical joke, plisky, trick; prank, ploy, amusement; sport; escapade, ploys, amusements; sports; escapades, poassible, possible, poddock, frog, pooch, pocket; pouch, pooer, power, pooerfu', powerful, poored, poured, poothers, powders, pop', pope, porkmanty, portmanteau, positeeve, positive, pouch, pouch; pocket, poun', pound (sterling), prayin', praying, preachin', preaching, pree, taste; try; prove; experience, prent, print, prentice-han', novice, press, wall-cupboard with shelves, preten', pretend, preten't, pretended, prood, proud, pruv, prove, pruved, proved, pu', pull, public, public house; pub, public-hoose, public house, pu'd, pulled, puddin's, intestines, puir, poor, pun', pound (sterling), putten, put, quaiet, quiet, quaiet sough, quiet tongue, quaieter, quieter, quaietly, quietly, quaietness, quietness, quean, queen; young girl; hussy, queston, question, also sum questons, questions, also sums quest'ons, questions, quibblin', quibbling, rade, rode, rael, real, railly, really, raither, rather, rale, real; true; very, rampaugin', rampaging, randy, rough; wild; riotous, also coarse-tongued; abusive rase, rose, rash, needle used in weaving, readin', reading, — from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
pertinacious powerful series of
Now Mr. Harrison devotes himself to a pertinacious, powerful series of attacks on Eyre, of Jamaica, at a time when that personage is the hero and pet martyr of English society; now Professor Beesly horrifies British respectability by pointing out that there are respectable murderers who are quite as bad as Broadhead; now Mr. John Morley undertakes even to criticise the Queen; now Mr. Congreve assails the anonymous writers of the London press as hired and masked assassins; now the whole band unite in the defence of Fenians. — from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
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