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Spanish captain Juan Pardo
We find Tasquiqui mentioned as a town in the Creek country visited by the Spanish captain, Juan Pardo, in 1567.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Scott Chief Justice Powell
John Beikie: Alexander Macdonell: Chie [138] f Justice Elmsley: Chief Justice Osgoode: Chief Justice Scott: Chief Justice Powell: Attorney General Firth: Secretary Jarvis: General Shaw: Col. Smith: D'Arcy Boulton: William Allan: Duncan Cameron: John Small: Thomas Ridout: William Stanton: Stephen Heward: Donald McLean: Stephen Jarvis: Capt.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

sight could jealous pangs
The sight could jealous pangs beguile, And charm Malbecco’s cares a while;
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

S cougar jaguar puma
[U. S.], cougar, jaguar, puma.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Stop cried Josephine pressing
If the Dona Josephine's beauty shall finish what the silly Don Esteban's arm have begun—what matter?” “Stop!” cried Josephine, pressing her hands across her shuddering eyes.
— from A Sappho of Green Springs by Bret Harte

said Captain Jerry pointedly
"If she comes close enough," said Captain Jerry pointedly.
— from The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Edward Stratemeyer

she cried joyously pointing
“And see,” she cried joyously, pointing to the beds already green with growing plants and to the rows of blossoms that had come out in all their Spring bravery of colour just as though they knew the soil had once been their real home, “is it not a marvel that Master Simon’s garden has so come to its own again?”
— from Master Simon's Garden: A Story by Cornelia Meigs

said Charley just poking
“Dinner is served,” said Charley, just poking his head round the door and then vanishing.
— from Dumps - A Plain Girl by L. T. Meade

second child John Prince
In 1530 she is confined at Blois of a second child, John, Prince of Viana, who died at Alençon on Christmas Day in the same year, when but five and a half months old.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

supporting Chief Justice Pratt
384 After the debate Pitt had a meeting with the Dukes of Newcastle, Devonshire, and their friends, and insisted on their supporting Chief Justice Pratt’s opinion in behalf of privilege against Mr. Yorke, who had declared that Wilkes’s case was not within the pale of privilege.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

sir cried Jenner punning
"Do not think to huff us, sir," cried Jenner, punning on the President's name.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron


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