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por riel el
Guatemala y la ciudad de La Unión, en el Salvador; si esto es así, [51] puede ya hacerse por riel el viaje entre
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

posset reliquos esse
196 B 37 THE GALLIC WAR, 58-50 B.C. (1) ‘That day he overcame the Nervii,’ 57 B.C. Caesar ab decimae legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu profectus, ubi suos urgeri signisque in unum locum collatis duodecimae legionis confertos milites sibi ipsos ad pugnam esse impedimento vidit—quartae cohortis omnibus centurionibus occisis, 5 signifero interfecto, signo amisso, reliquarum cohortium omnibus fere centurionibus aut vulneratis aut occisis, in his primipilo P. Sextio Baculo, fortissimo viro, multis gravibusque volneribus confecto, ut iam se sustinere non posset; reliquos esse tardiores et nonnullos 10 ab novissimis deserto proelio excedere ac tela vitare, hostes neque a fronte ex inferiore loco subeuntes intermittere et ab utroque latere instare, et rem esse in angusto vidit neque ullum esse subsidium quod submitti posset, scuto ab novissimis 15 militi detracto,
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

plerumque robustius Every
Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur: inveteratum fit plerumque robustius —Every evil is easily crushed at its birth; when grown old, it generally becomes more obstinate.
— 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.

Pickwick rather envying
‘It is calculated to afford them the highest gratification, I should conceive,’ said Mr. Pickwick, rather envying the ease with which Mr. Magnus’s friends were entertained.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

procaz roza el
[4] codiciosas; el aventurero procaz roza el modesto traje del simple dependiente con los estirados faldones de su levita presuntuosa; el insular petimetre ostenta su bigote rizado a tijera [5] bajo la mirada aguda del periodista burlón que prepara su crónica sensacional, husmeando todas las conversaciones; el anciano enriquecido por largos años de duro trabajo comenta, con la frialdad del egoísmo que dan los años, esa crónica diaria de la Bolsa, muchas de cuyas páginas están escritas con sangre
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

pleasing recollection each
Each pleasing recollection, each kind word, every tear from the heart which her foster-mother had wept for her, rose in her mind, and at that moment she felt as if she loved this mother the best.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

plena res est
Suspicionis plena res est, et insidiarum , beauty (saith [6264] Chrysostom) is full of treachery and suspicion: he that hath a fair wife, cannot have a worse mischief, and yet most covet it, as if nothing else in marriage but that and wealth were to be respected.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

PRESENT reg e
I shall have been ruled , etc. rêx erô rêx erimus rêct us, -a, -um erô rêct î, -ae, -a erimus rêx eris rêx eritis eris eritis rêx erit rêx erint erit erunt SUBJUNCTIVE PRESENT reg am reg âmus reg ar reg âmur reg âs reg âtis reg âris, -re reg âminî reg at reg ant reg âtur reg antur IMPERFECT reg erem reg erêmus reg erer reg erêmur reg erês reg erêtis reg erêris, -re reg erêminî reg eret reg erent reg erêtur reg erentur PERFECT rêx erim rêx erimus rêct us, -a, -um sim rêct î, -ae, -a sîmus rêx eris rêx eritis sîs sîtis rêx erit rêx erint sit sint PLUPERFECT rêx issem rêx issêmus rêct us, -a, -um essem rêct î, -ae, -a essêmus rêx issês rêx issêtis essês essêtis rêx isset rêx issent esset essent IMPERATIVE PRESENT reg e , rule thou reg ere , be thou ruled reg ite , rule ye reg iminî , be ye ruled FUTURE reg itô , thou shalt rule reg itor , thou shalt be ruled reg itô he shall rule reg itor , he shall be ruled reg itôte , ye shall rule —— reg untô , they shall rule reg untor , they shall be ruled INFINITIVE Pres.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Pepe Rey entró
Pepe Rey entró de nuevo en su cuarto
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

poterunt resistere et
RATIONES OBLATI CERTAMINIS Ego dabo vobis os et sapientiam, cui non poterunt resistere et contradicere omnes adversarii vestri.
— from Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund, Saint

poor rates enough
Well, we pay poor rates enough.
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark

palls represented early
A slight difference is observable between palls represented early and those represented late in the mediaeval period.
— from Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

peculiar ratlike expression
He wore a long, light-colored overcoat and a visor cap pulled down over his eyes, which were small and dark, and set close together in his thin, sallow face, giving him a peculiar, ratlike expression.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey

park room extensive
I do not know of any city that has park room extensive enough to refresh its own inhabitants.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

paulatim resolutis e
Literarum inter delicias , rem familiarem sedulo curaret , Multis illi multos annos precantibus diri carcinomatis veneno contabuit , nexibusque vitae paulatim resolutis , e terris — meliora sperans — emigravit .
— from Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Lynch Piozzi

perchance reducing eccentric
A Correspondent of the Athenæum , 1865, writes:—"While some philosophers seek information in the Far West, and others in the not-much-nearer East—one, perchance, reducing eccentric arrow heads to a civilised alphabet; another metamorphosing emblematic pitch-forks, tom-cats, &c., of 2,000 A.M. into sensation novels of the period; a third studying the customs and annals of pre-historic America by the aid of Aztec pots and pipkins—it has been the happy lot of the undersigned, with no greater effort than a short railway journey and a pleasant walk, to light upon a treasure of antiquity, which may not be without interest to some of your readers.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

Pedro River Emory
Speaking of the ruins of the Gila east of the San Pedro River, Emory says: "Whenever the mountains did not infringe too closely on the river and shut out the valley, they were seen in great abundance, enough, I should think, to indicate a former population of at least one hundred thousand; and in one place there is a long wide valley, twenty miles in length, much of which is covered with the ruins of buildings and broken pottery.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen


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