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para que el
María Remedios dispuso todo con precipitación, para que el héroe no se impacientase.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

pues que etc
Que is often used elliptically for pues que , etc.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

par quiconque essaye
Bell devrait etre medite par quiconque essaye de faire parler le visage de l'homme, par les philosophes aussi bien que par les artistes, car, sous une apparence plus legere et sous le pretexte de l'esthetique, c'est un des plus beaux monuments de la science des rapports du physique et du moral.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

propre qui est
Entendu en sense propre, qui est celui d’une constrainte mystique exercée par la volonté de l’homme sur d’autres volontés ou sur les choses, cette expression n’est plus admissible; mais nous avons vu qu’elle était autrefois rigouresement, vraie, du moins dans l’opinion des artistes” (p. 136).
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

pincushion Queen Elizabeth
The catalog, in 1760, comprehended the following rarities: Tigers' tusks; the Pope's candle; the skeleton of a Guinea-pig; a fly-cap monkey, a piece of the true Cross; the Four Evangelists' heads cut out on a cherry stone; the King of Morocco's tobacco-pipe; Mary Queen of Scots' pincushion; Queen Elizabeth's prayer-book; a pair of Nun's stockings; Job's ears, which grew on a tree; a frog in a tobacco stopper; and five hundred more odd relics!
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

perniciem quoniam et
Diversæ qualitates locorum ad unam convenere perniciem: quoniam et
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

peor que es
Yo le doy lo peor, que es lo que alaba.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

presentimiento qestrago
no sé qué vago one for me....I don’t know what strange presentimiento, qestrago foreboding, what disastrous change teme mi alma acongojada.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

players quite escaped
Indeed, none of the six players quite escaped this consequence of their own thoroughness.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

preciso que exista
Para que la mojigatería sea inofensiva, es preciso que exista en corazones 5 muy puros.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

parece que el
[Diego de] Chaves, y que le parece que el obispo de Cadiz puede desde luego ser pasado á Malaga, atento á que los corregidores han hablado sin passion, y que los del Cabildo se la tenian, y grande, al Obispo.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

prima quarum est
Johannis Grisostomi, et ostendit eis duas cartas completas et roboratas, prima quarum est venditionis et securitatis carta, facta anno ab Inc. D.N.J. C. (1321) mensis Junii die decimo, intrante indictione quintâ, Rivoalti; quâ manifestum fecit ipsa DONATA uxor MARCI PAULO de confinio Scti.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

Palveri Queen Elizabeth
The mental bursts, the trouble the United States was having, Palveri, Queen Elizabeth, Burris, Mike Sand, Dr. O'Connor, Sir Lewis Carter and even Luba Ardanko juggled and flowed in his mind like pieces out of a kaleidoscope.
— from Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

para que entriegue
“Otra, del 15, al Alcalde Mayor [Martin Alfonso de Parraga], para que entriegue ( sic ) una esclava por de las secuestradas por bienes de Jacob Çaportas” f. 162 b 415.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Par quel excès
[932] ‘Par quel excès de démence, par quel opiniâtreté absurde, tant de compilateurs ont-ils voulu prouver dans tant de volumes énormes, qu'une fête publique établie en mémoire d'un événement était une démonstration de la vérité de cet événement?’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

personal qualities elevated
He would naturally, as the local printer, have ranked a little above the foreman of the saw-mill in the social scale, and decidedly below the master of the Academy; but his personal qualities elevated him over the head even of the latter.
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

priuilegios que el
“Otro memorial del mismo, sobre los priuilegios que el Rey Don Felipe 2 o .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

parece que el
Me parece que el Sr. D. José ha de ser buen ginete.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós


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