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SYN Perpetrate execute confide See
SYN: Perpetrate, execute, confide, [See DO], relegate, intrust, assign, allocate, consign.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

say Peel Edgerton can smell
They say Peel Edgerton can smell a criminal!
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

scriptura partim ex certis sententiis
Vti exempla ostendunt, constitit hœc scriptura partim ex certis sententiis et argutis symbolis, partim ex historicis fictionibus, secretiori docendi methodo accommodatis."
— from Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy by John Delafield

subdiaconus patenam et calicem sic
[16] 'Episcopus presbyter aut diaconus si a gradu suo iniuste deiectus in secunda synodo innocens reperiatur non potest esse quod fuerat nisi gradus amissos recipiat coram altario de manu episcopi; (si episcopus) orarium annulum et baculum; si presbyter orarium et planetam; si diaconus orarium et albam; si subdiaconus patenam et calicem; sic et reliqui gradus ea in reparationem sui
— from Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

statim pueri eorum cum sunt
Et statim pueri eorum, cum sunt duorum annorum vel trium, incipiunt equitare.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

special Presidential Electoral College shall
Should the President vacate his post before the expiration of his term of office a special Presidential Electoral College shall be organized within three days.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

submissive perhaps even criminally submissive
It might be she was innocent; there was no question that she was frail; report added submissive, perhaps even criminally submissive, to the terrible will of this her brother.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

subjectis pœnis exemplum cæteris statuet
Præfatos vere qui tam abominandum scelus ausi sunt cum suis complicibus et quoscunque eis auxilium consilium favoremve ullum præstiterunt undique conquisitos ac debitis subjectis pœnis exemplum cæteris statuet ne aliquando ad peccati similitudinem ex impunitate accendantur.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea


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