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placed under provisional sequestration
"Considering," it said, "that the residence of citizens in places foreign to their domicile, can only be prejudicial to the communes they have left, and to those to which they have repaired, it is ordered, that those inhabitants who have quitted their residence since the commandment of July, return home by the 28th at the latest, otherwise they shall be deemed accomplices of the evil-disposed persons who disturb the public tranquility, and their property shall be placed under provisional sequestration ."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

panghangyù ug pakitábang She
Nagkabaagbaag siyag panghangyù ug pakitábang, She went around everywhere asking for help.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

pudieran utilizarse para satisfacer
[32] carecemos ya de tierras baldías que pudieran utilizarse para satisfacer
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

ponente un pastor sanza
Ma piu` e` 'l tempo gia` che i pie` mi cossi e ch'i' son stato cosi` sottosopra, ch'el non stara` piantato coi pie` rossi: che' dopo lui verra` di piu` laida opra di ver' ponente, un pastor sanza legge, tal che convien che lui e me ricuopra.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poking up pigs sheep
The greater number carried in their hands ground-ash saplings, using them partly as walking-sticks and partly for poking up pigs, sheep, neighbours with their backs turned, and restful things in general, which seemed to require such treatment in the course of their peregrinations.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

poniendo una pierna sobre
Caballuco volvió a sentarse, y poniendo una pierna sobre otra, cruzó las manos sobre ellas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

purchases under Pritchard s
He stayed at a cheap hotel in the Strand and made purchases under Pritchard's supervision.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

professions unceasingly paraded served
His charities were so many advertisements, and were undoubtedly turned to profit; his religious professions, unceasingly paraded, served as a cloak for his greed and self-seeking.
— from Aaron the Jew: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

pound until perfectly smooth
No. 3 Rub or pound until perfectly smooth or well mixed one tablespoonful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of soft club-house cheese, a tablespoonful of grated Parmesan, a saltspoonful of salt, and a teaspoonful of anchovy paste; add a teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar and a half saltspoonful of pepper.
— from Sandwiches by S. T. Rorer

Popular Unity Party Sa
[Ahmad Yusuf 'ALIYA]; Democratic Popular Unity Party [Sa'ed DIAB]; Islamic Action Front or IAF [Ishaq al-FARHAN];
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Popular Unity Party Sa
[Marwan al-FAURI, secretary general]; Jordanian Arab Ansar Party; Jordanian Arab New Dawn Party; Jordanian Arab Party; Jordanian Citizens' Rights Movement; Jordanian Communist Party [Munir HAMARINAH, secretary general]; Jordanian Communist Workers Party; Jordanian Democratic Left Party [Musa MA'AYTEH, secretary general]; Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party [Sa'id Dhiyab Ali MUSTAFA, secretary general]; Jordanian Generations Party [Muhammad KHALAYLEH, secretary general]; Jordanian Green Party [Muhammad BATAYNEH, secretary general]; Jordanian Labor Party
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

patient uniformly preferred sitting
During this paroxysm a recumbent posture was very uneasy, and the patient uniformly preferred sitting in a chair.
— from Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren

pursued under pontifical supervision
After the year 1688 the excavations were pursued under pontifical supervision, though often neglected through indifference or embarrassed by want of funds.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow


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