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Roman Catholic prayer
All my Eye , a remark of incredulity made in reference to an improbable story; condensation of “ ALL MY EYE AND BETTY MARTIN ,” a vulgar phrase constructed from the commencement of a Roman Catholic prayer to St. Martin, “Oh, mihi, beate Martine,” which in common with many another fell into discredit and ridicule after the Reformation.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

remote country place
Caleb Garth could see that there was a moment of struggle and hesitation in Mr. Bulstrode, but it ended in his putting out his hand coldly to Raffles and saying— "I did not indeed expect to see you in this remote country place.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

road cheerful pleased
I left them together, and in a short time we were on our road, cheerful, pleased, and merry.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

rather contra parentem
But the master at Harrow is in loco parentis; the master in Hoxton is rather contra parentem.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Roman conditions pp
Apiciana, Diagram of, p. 252 Apicius, pp. 7 , 9 —— The man, p. 9 —— Athenaeus on, p. 9 —— and Platina, p. 9 —— Expedition to find crawfish, p. 9 —— ships oysters, p. 10 —— school, p. 10 —— death, pp. 10 , 11 —— reflecting Roman conditions, pp. 14 , 15 —— authenticity of, pp. 18 , 19 —— writer, p. 26 , ℞ 176 , 436 —— confirmed by modern science, p. 33 —— editors as cooks, p. 34 seq.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Richardson CONTENTS PUBLISHERS
PAMELA or VIRTUE REWARDED By Samuel Richardson CONTENTS PUBLISHERS' NOTE PAMELA, or VIRTUE REWARDED LETTER I LETTER II LETTER III LETTER IV LETTER V LETTER VI LETTER VII LETTER VIII LETTER IX LETTER X LETTER XI LETTER XII LETTER XIII LETTER XIV LETTER XV LETTER XVI LETTER
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

rhythmically constructed play
This is therefore a rhythmically constructed play on the magical root ra’i , and the words yova , ‘to fly,’ and teta , ‘to be poised , ’ ‘to soar.’
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Romæ Cum pretio
Omnia Romæ / Cum pretio —All things may be bought at Rome with money.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

rattle clatter patter
V. roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack; bombinate[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Rome cannot prevent
All the power of Rome cannot prevent it, and whatever opposes it must go down before it.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

Roman classical period
The true greyhound existed during the Roman classical period.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

Romanzo Caukins purty
She's made a lot er sunshine in this place, and I guess from all I hear there's them thet would stan' out purty stiff agin it; they say Luigi Poggi an' Romanzo Caukins purty near fit over her t' other night."
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

raised Cleveland p92
“‘The author has approached the subject from many angles and we believe has presented an exceptionally able brief in support of his premise and has answered in full, all criticisms and objections which have been raised.’” + Cleveland p92 Jl ‘17 110w (Reprinted from American Law Review) “A valuable feature of the book is an appendix giving the chronology of the movement in this country and setting forth the most important facts regarding its present employment.” + Dial 63:30 Je 28 ‘17 330w New Repub 11:142 Je 2 ‘17 160w “The author is an attorney who drew both the bills for a public defender which were introduced into the New York legislature in 1915.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Rheims Cathedral pg
line=> blood of the Carolingian line {pg 86} Germans’ stategic retreat=> Germans’ strategic retreat {pg 112} conterbutting members of Rheims Cathedral=> counterbutting members of Rheims Cathedral {pg 117} congrégation quia existé=> congrégation qui a existé {pg 118-(note 66)} Les eglises de l’Ile-de-France=>
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

rather celebrated painting
For a reduced copy of a rather celebrated painting, of which the figures were life-size, of what might be called, comparatively speaking, a Persian old master—for this reduction, in oils, fourteen inches by eight, and fairly well done, the charge was a sovereign.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

reproved Can Peleus
The king, who saw their squadrons yet unmoved, With hasty ardour thus the chiefs reproved: "Can Peleus' son forget a warrior's part.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Register Co PWH
National Cash Register Co. (PWH); 10Jan64; R329231.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

reception custom practised
111 Sir S. W. Baker describes a reception custom practised by the Arabs on the Abyssinian frontier, which is exactly similar to one form of l-ʿâr of the Moors:—“The usual welcome upon the arrival of a traveller, who is well received in an Arab camp, is the sacrifice of a fat sheep, that should be slaughtered at the door of his hut or tent, so that the blood flows to the threshold.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck


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