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Pueblo Viejo see Pueblo
Sacred numbers , Indian 431 Sacred things , Cherokee 396 – 397 Sacrifice , influence of, on development of drama lxxviii St John , translation of gospel of 110 St Louis , Osage-Cherokee council at 137 St Louis , treaty of (1825) 99 St Louis , Spanish retention of 68 St Clair , General, defeat of 72 , 212 St Clair , effect of defeat of 71 Salâ′lĭ , Cherokee story teller 237 Salâ′lĭ , Lanman’s account of 166 Salâ′lĭ , myth told by 476 San Estevan, Fiesta de , witnessing of xiii San Felipe , establishment of 27 San Fernando de Barrancas , surrender of 81 San Jacinto , battle of 223 San José de Pueblo Viejo , see Pueblo Viejo .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Park via Scenic Point
Trails for hikers and saddle-horse parties radiate to adjacent points of interest: to Glacier Park via Scenic Point and Mount Henry, to Upper Two Medicine Lake and Dawson Pass, to Two Medicine Pass and Paradise Park, and up the Dry Fork to Cutbank Pass and Valley.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

presented vaunted She put
At sixteen she came out; presented, vaunted, She put all coronets into commotion: At seventeen, too, the world was still enchanted With the new Venus of their brilliant ocean: At eighteen, though below her feet still panted A hecatomb of suitors with devotion, She had consented to create again
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Pledge v SYN Pawn
= KEY: Pledge \v.\. SYN: Pawn, hypothecate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

pater victoriæ Schultens Præfat
Note 51 ( return ) [ In these Arabic titles, religionis must always be understood; Noureddin , lumen r.; Ezzodin , decus; Amadoddin , columen: our hero's proper name was Joseph, and he was styled Salahoddin , salus; Al Malichus , Al Nasirus , rex defensor; Abu Modaffer , pater victoriæ, Schultens, Præfat.]
— 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

PORCELLUM VITELLIANUM SUCKLING PIG
[1] PORCELLUM VITELLIANUM SUCKLING PIG CALLED VITELLIAN STYLE IS PREPARED THUS
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

price value See PRICE
= KEY: Rate \n.\. SYN: Tax, impost, assessment, duty, standard, allowance, ratio, quota, worth, price, value, [See PRICE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

peculiar vibrating scream produced
The old ladies evince their approbation by a peculiar vibrating scream, produced by the voice passing through the nearly closed lips, whilst the under lip is kept in a continual tremulous state by the rapid application of the back of the forefinger to that feature.
— from The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah

passionate violence she pressed
The baroness uttered a cry of joy; seizing the paper with passionate violence, she pressed it to her lips, and knelt down with it.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Pah Vants San Pitches
Delgado , in Ind. Aff. Rept. , 1865, p. 163; see also pp. 17, 18. 'The Ute tribe Dr. Hurt divides into the Pah Utahs, Tamp Pah-Utes, Cheveriches, Pah Vants, San Pitches, and Pyedes.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Professor von Schroeder points
Professor von Schroeder points out that their father was the god Rudra, later known as Çiva, the god of departed souls, and of fruitfulness, i.e., a Chthonian deity, and suggests that the Maruts represent the "in Wind und Sturm dahinjagende Seelenschar."[7]
— from From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

pascunt vel solis parsura
* * … haec nullis parsura incendia pascunt, vel solis parsura piis.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

progressed very slowly pausing
The night was pitch dark, and she progressed very slowly, pausing for a moment after each step she made, to listen for the sound of breathing, or for some movement that would tell her she was near one of the enemy.
— from A Soldier's Daughter, and Other Stories by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

presentiments vague struggles passionate
It cannot at once, or completely at all, be read off in words; for it is written in abstruse facts, of endowment, position, desire, opportunity, granted to the man;—interprets itself in presentiments, vague struggles, passionate endeavors and is only legible in whole when his work is done .
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

Pruni Virginianae Syr Prun
* Syrupus Pruni Virginianae (Syr. Prun.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

per vicecomitem suum posuit
Anno regni Regis Henrici ... quinquagesimo primo ... Dominus Rex habuit seysinam dicti hameletti per duas ebdomadas et deinde dominus Rex per vicecomitem suum posuit prefatum 429 Abbatem in plenam seysinam dicti hameletti de Stonle die Sti Clementis eodem anno ad magnam crucem ville de Stonle.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff


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