Quotes: P

pace

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught.

The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into confidence with Spain.

Or [ere] that I further in this tale pace.

If you can, pace your wisdom In that good path that I would wish it go.

Pacifico

While we were going through the woods one of the pacificos pointed to a new grave.

Pacify

To pacify and settle those countries.

Pack

Strange materials packed up with wonderful art.

Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed.

And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.

The expected council was dwindling into . . . a packed assembly of Italian bishops.

He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.

Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey.

He . . . must not die Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.

Poor Stella must pack off to town

You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again.

Packet

Her husband Was packeted to France.

pact

The engagement and pact of society which goes by the name of the constitution.

pad

An abbot on an ambling pad.

Padding the streets for half a crown.

Paddle

As the men were paddling for their lives.

While paddling ducks the standing lake desire.

To be paddling palms and pinching fingers.

Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon.

Pagan

Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man.

And all the rites of pagan honor paid.

Page

He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one.

Such was the book from whose pages she sang.

Pageant

To see sad pageants of men's miseries.

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day!

We love the man, the paltry pageant you.

Pageantry

Such pageantry be to the people shown.

The pageantry of festival.

Pah

Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.

pain

We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.

None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.

She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.

In rapture as in pain.

Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us.

I am pained at my very heart.

Painable

The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver.

Painful

A very painful person, and a great clerk.

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.

Pains

And all my pains is sorted to no proof.

The pains they had taken was very great.

The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled.

Paint

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head.

Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.

Cuckoo buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight.

Disloyal? The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Let her paint an inch thick.

Painted

As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Pair

Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.

My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.

Glossy jet is paired with shining white.

Palate

Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.

Palaver

This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.

Palavering the little language for her benefit.

Pale

Speechless he stood and pale.

They are not of complexion red or pale.

The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler.

Apt to pale at a trodden worm.

The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.

[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters.

Paleness

The blood the virgin's cheek forsook; A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look.

Palfrey

Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey.

Paling

They moved within the paling of order and decorum.

Pall

His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.

About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York.

Warriors carry the warrior's pall.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.

Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments.

Palliate

Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat.

They never hide or palliate their vices.

To palliate dullness, and give time a shove.

palm

Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm.

A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands.

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

They palmed the trick that lost the game.

For you may palm upon us new for old.

Palmer

Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together.

The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all.

Palmy

His golden sands and palmy wine.

In the most high and palmy state of Rome.

Palp

To bring a palpèd darkness o'er the earth.

Palpable

Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness.

[Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable.

A hit, A very palpable hit.

Palter

Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter.

Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power.

paltry

The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Pamphlet

Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the Third.

Pamphleteer

By pamphleteering we shall not win.

Pan

We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.

Panache

A panache of variegated plumes.

Pandect

[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book.

Pander

Thou art the pander to her dishonor.

Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.

Pandour

Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars.

Panegyric

Some of his odes are panegyrical.

Panegyrist

If these panegyrists are in earnest.

Paneless

To patch his paneless window.

Paneulogism

Her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism.

Panomphean

We want no half gods, panomphean Joves.

Panoply

We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God.

Panpsychism

Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his panpsychicism, or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members in the soul of the world.

Pant

Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.

As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

Who pants for glory finds but short repose.

The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.

There is a cavern where my spirit Was panted forth in anguish.

Then shall our hearts pant thee.

Pantaloon

The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.

Pantomime

[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.

Pap

The paps which thou hast sucked.

Paper

They brought a paper to me to be signed.

Parable

Declare unto us the parable of the tares.

Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.

Paracelsus

The apothecaries, too, were enraged against this iconoclast [Paracelsus]. For had he not, as official town physician, demanded the right to inspect their stocks and rule over their prescriptions which he denounced as "foul broths"? These apothecaries had grown fat on the barbarous prescriptions of the local doctors. "The physician's duty is to heal the sick, not to enrich the apothecaries," he had warned them, and refused to send his patients to them to have the prescriptions compounded. He made his own medicines instead, and gave them free to his patients. . . . Then they hatched a plot and before long Basel had lost Paracelsus, ostensibly because of the meanness of a wealthy citizen. Paracelsus had sued Canon Lichtenfels for failure to pay him one hundred guldens promised for a cure. The patient had offered only six guldens, and the fiery Paracelsus, when the court deliberately handed in a verdict against him, rebuked it in such terms that his life was in imminent danger. In the dead of night, he was persuaded by his friends to leave secretly the city where he had hurled defiance at the pseudo-medicos of the world.

Although the theories of Paracelsus as contrasted with the Galeno-Arabic system indicate no advance, inasmuch as they ignore entirely the study of anatomy, still his reputation as a reformer of therapeutics is justified in that he broke new paths in the science. He may be taken as the founder of modern materia medica, and pioneer of scientific chemistry, since before his time medical science received no assistance from alchemy. To Paracelsus is due the use of mercury for syphilis as well as a number of other metallic remedies, probably a result of his studies in Schwaz, and partly his acquaintance with the quicksilver works in Idria.

Paraclete

From which intercession especially I conceive he hath the name of the Paraclete given him by Christ.

Parade

In state returned the grand parade.

Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade.

When they are not in parade, and upon their guard.

Parading all her sensibility.

Paradise

To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise.

The earth Shall be all paradise.

Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision.

Paradisiac

The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty.

paradox

A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.

This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.

Parage

We claim to be of high parage.

Paragon

Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister.

Full many feats adventurous Performed, in paragon of proudest men.

Man, . . . the paragon of animals !

The riches of sweet Mary's son, Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon.

In arms anon to paragon the morn, The morn new rising.

He hath achieved a maid That paragons description and wild fame.

Few or none could . . . paragon with her.

Paragram

Puns, which he calls paragrams.

Parallel

Revolutions . . . parallel to the equinoctial.

When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it can not be too much cherished.

Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ?

Lines that from their parallel decline.

Twixt earthly females and the moon All parallels exactly run.

None but thyself can be thy parallel.

The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian.

His life is paralleled Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.

My young remembrance can not parallel A fellow to it.

Parallelism

A close parallelism of thought and incident.

At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

Parallelistic

The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost.

Paralysis

Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis of the powers of ownership.

Paralytic

The cold, shaking, paralytic hand.

Parament

Lords in paraments on their coursers.

Paramour

The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour

For par amour, I loved her first ere thou.

Paranymphal

At some paranymphal feast.

Paraphrase

In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.

Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David.

His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice.

The Targums are also called the Chaldaic or Aramaic Paraphrases.

We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words.

Parasite

Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st.

Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables.

Parcel

Two parcels of the white of an egg.

The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.

This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.

'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage.

These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.

The broad woodland parceled into farms.

That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy.

The worthy dame was parcel-blind.

One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded].

Parch

Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.

The ground below is parched.

Parchment

But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar.

Pard

And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain.

Parde

He was, parde, an old fellow of yours.

Pardon

Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.

But infinite in pardon was my judge.

Sign me a present pardon for my brother.

In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant.

I pray you, pardon me; pray heartily, pardon me.

I pray thee, pardon my sin.

Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!

I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

Even now about it! I will pardon you.

Pare

The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy.

parent

Children, obey your parents in the Lord.

Regular industry is the parent of sobriety.

Parentage

Though men esteem thee low of parentage.

Parental

The careful course and parental provision of nature.

Parenthesis

Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis.

parenthetic

A parenthetical observation of Moses himself.

Parget

The pargeted ceiling with pendants.

Parietal

At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee.

Paring

Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the parings raise your hills.

Parity

Equality of length and parity of numeration.

Park

While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

How are we parked, and bounded in a pale.

parkinsonism

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Parkinson's

Parkinson's disease is the most common form of parkinsonism, a group of disorders that are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells.

According to the National Parkinson's Foundation (NPF), 1 million Americans -- including former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, and television and film star Michael J. Fox -- are affected by Parkinson's disease.

Parlance

A hate of gossip parlance and of sway.

Parle

Finding himself too weak, began to parle.

They ended parle, and both addressed for fight.

Parley

We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain.

They are at hand, To parley or to fight; therefore prepare.

Parliament

But first they held their parliament.

They made request that it might be lawful for them to summon a parliament of Gauls.

Parodic

Very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical.

parody

The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's “Hind and Panther” was received with great applause.

I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of Horace.

Parole

This man had forfeited his military parole.

Paroxysm

The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair.

Parqueted

One room parqueted with yew, which I liked well.

Parry

Vice parries wide The undreaded volley with a sword of straw.

The French government has parried the payment of our claims.

parse

Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly.

Parsimonious

A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious.

Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money.

Parsimony

Awful parsimony presided generally at the table.

Parsley

As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit.

Parson

He hears the parson pray and preach.

Parsonage

What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for?

Parsonic

Vainglory glowed in his parsonic heart.

Part

And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet.

Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not contain a secret relation of the parts ?

I am a part of all that I have met.

An homer is the tenth part of an ephah.

A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward.

All the parts were formed . . . into one harmonious body.

The pulse, the glow of every part.

Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.

All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears.

We have no part in David.

Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Let me bear My part of danger with an equal share.

For he that is not against us is on our part.

Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.

That part Was aptly fitted and naturally performed.

It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf.

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow hues.

To part his throne, and share his heaven with thee.

They parted my raiment among them.

The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

The narrow seas that part The French and English.

The stumbling night did part our weary powers.

The liver minds his own affair, . . . And parts and strains the vital juices.

Since presently your souls must part your bodies.

He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before.

His precious bag, which he would by no means part from.

Celia, for thy sake, I part With all that grew so near my heart.

Powerful hands . . . will not part Easily from possession won with arms.

It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.

Partake

When I against myself with thee partake.

The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general.

Let every one partake the general joy.

partaker

Partakers of their spiritual things.

Wish me partaker in my happiness.

Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets.

partial

Ye have been partial in the law.

Not partial to an ostentatious display.

Participant

Participants in their . . . mysterious rites.

Participate

So would he participate of their wants.

Mine may come when men With angels may participate.

Fit to participate all rational delight.

Participation

These deities are so by participation.

What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself!

Participle

By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an adjectival aspect.

The participles or confines between plants and living creatures.

Particle

The small size of atoms which unite To make the smallest particle of light.

The houses had not given their commissioners authority in the least particle to recede.

Particular

[Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.

Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne.

Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth.

Particulars which it is not lawful for me to reveal.

It is the greatest interest of particulars to advance the good of the community.

For his particular I'll receive him gladly.

If the particulars of each person be considered.

Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public . . . or such as concern our particular.

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written.

Particularity

Let the general trumpet blow his blast, Particularities and petty sounds To cease!

Particularize

He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.

Particularly

The exact propriety of Virgil I particularly regarded as a great part of his character.

Particulate

The smallpox is a particulate disease.

Parting

And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts.

Partisan

Both sides had their partisans in the colony.

And make him with our pikes and partisans a grave.

Partition

And good from bad find no partition.

No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.

Uniform without, though severally partitioned within.

Partner

My other self, the partner of my life.

Partnership

Rome, that ne'er knew three lordly heads before, First fell by fatal partnership of power.

He does possession keep, And is too wise to hazard partnership.

Partridge

Full many a fat partrich had he in mew.

Party

Win the noble Brutus to our party.

The peace both parties want is like to last.

The cause of both parties shall come before the judges.

If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony.

Have you nothing said Upon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?

I will be true judge, and not party.

Pasquin

The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man.

To see himself pasquined and affronted.

Pass

On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent.

Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed.

Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust.

Disturb him not, let him pass paceably.

Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.

The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes.

So death passed upon all men.

Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind.

Now the time is far passed.

False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.

This will not pass for a fault in him.

As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

She would not play, yet must not pass.

She loved me for the dangers I had passed.

Please you that I may pass This doing.

I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art.

Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.

Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

Father, thy word is passed.

“Try not the pass!” the old man said.

Have his daughters brought him to this pass.

Matters have been brought to this pass.

A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

Common speech gives him a worthy pass.

Passable

His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel.

With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable than another.

Could they have made this slander passable.

My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent.

Passage

What! are my doors opposed against my passage!

The ship in which he had taken passage.

When he is fit and season'd for his passage.

And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart.

The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.

The conduct and passage of affairs.

The passage and whole carriage of this action.

The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.

How commentators each dark passage shun.

No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore.

The final question was then put upon its passage.

Passant

Many opinions are passant.

On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop.

Passerine

The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees.

Passible

Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible.

Passion

To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs.

A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.

Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter.

We also are men of like passions with you.

The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions, or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil.

The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything.

The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion.

When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.

Passionate

Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.

Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard, The godly king and queen did passionate.

Passionately

Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately.

Passive

The passive air Upbore their nimble tread.

The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas.

The best virtue, passive fortitude.

Passiveness

To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause.

Passport

Caution in granting passports to Ireland.

His passport is his innocence and grace.

Past

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed.

Until we be past thy borders.

Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame.

Is it not past two o'clock?

Not past three quarters of a mile.

Bows not past three quarters of a yard long.

The alarum of drums swept past.

Pastoral

A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life.

Pasture

Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

So graze as you find pasture.

Pasty

A large pasty baked in a pewter platter.

Pat

Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite.

It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.

I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.

Patch

Patches set upon a little breach.

Your black patches you wear variously.

Employed about this patch of ground.

Ladies who patched both sides of their faces.

Pate

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

Fat paunches have lean pate.

Patent

He had received instructions, both patent and secret.

Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity.

Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent.

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend.

Paternal

Their small paternal field of corn.

Paternity

The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership.

The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed.

path

The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Pathetic

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.

Pathfinder

The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker.

Pathless

Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way.

Pathognomonic

The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy.

Pathos

The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe.

Pathway

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death.

We tread the pathway arm in arm.

Patience

Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering.

I must have patience to endure the load.

Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross.

Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

He learned with patience, and with meekness taught.

They stay upon your patience.

Patient

Patient of severest toil and hardship.

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.

Not patient to expect the turns of fate.

Be patient toward all men.

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient.

Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.

Patness

The description with equal patness may suit both.

Patois

The jargon and patois of several provinces.

Patriarch

The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet.

The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees.

Patriarchal

About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung.

Patrician

Born in the patrician file of society.

His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.

Patriot

Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.

Patristic

The voluminous editor of Jerome and of tons of patristic theology.

Patrol

In France there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.

Patron

Let him who works the client wrong Beware the patron's ire.

Patroness

Night, best patroness of grief.

Patronize

The idea has been patronized by two States only.

Patten

The patten now supports each frugal dame.

Patter

The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.

I've gone out and pattered to get money.

[The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers.

Pattern

I will be the pattern of all patience.

He compares the pattern with the whole piece.

The patterns of things in the heavens.

[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.

Patulous

The eyes are large and patulous.

Paucity

Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications.

Pauline

My religion had always been Pauline.

Pause

I stand in pause where I shall first begin.

He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe.

Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.

Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.

Pave

With silver paved, and all divine with gold.

To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.

It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title.

Pavement

The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.

Pavilion

The pavilion of heaven is bare.

The field pavilioned with his guardians bright.

Paw

His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane.

Pawn

As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i. e., interest].

Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.

As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness.

My life I never held but as a pawn To wage against thy enemies.

And pawned the last remaining piece of plate.

Pawning his honor to obtain his lust.

Pax

Kiss the pax, and be quiet like your neighbors.

Pay

May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy].

[She] pays me with disdain.

For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you.

Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

If they pay this tax, they starve.

This day have I paid my vows.

Not paying me a welcome.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.

'T was I paid for your sleeps; I watched your wakings.

Where only merit constant pay receives.

There is neither pay nor plunder to be got.

Payable

Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest.

Payment

No man envieth the payment of a debt.

Peace

When the thunder would not peace at my bidding.

Peach

If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.

Peak

Silent upon a peak in Darien.

There peaketh up a mighty high mount.

Peal

Whether those peals of praise be his or no.

And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar.

There let the pealing organ blow.

And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men.

The warrior's name, Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame.

Nor was his ear less pealed.

Pearl

I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl.

And those pearls of dew she wears.

Peart

There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers in May.

Pebble

As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

Peccability

The common peccability of mankind.

Peck

This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.

[The hen] went pecking by his side.

Peculate

An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism.

Peculation

Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined.

Peculiar

And purify unto himself a peculiar people.

Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself.

While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat.

My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.

Beauty, which, either walking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give.

Revenge is . . . the peculiar of Heaven.

Peculiarity

The smallest peculiarity of temper or manner.

Peculium

A slight peculium only subtracted to supply his snuff box and tobacco pouch.

Pedagogism

Avocations of pedantry and pedagogism.

Pedant

A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church.

A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he.

Pedantry

'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry.

Pedestal

Build him a pedestal, and say, “Stand there!”

Pedestaled

Pedestaled haply in a palace court.

Pedetentous

That pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the wise and virtuous improver to walk.

Pedigree

Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees.

His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree.

I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees.

The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes.

Peel

But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces.

The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.

Peep

There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear.

Peep through the blanket of the dark.

From her cabined loophole peep.

Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn.

To take t' other peep at the stars.

Peeper

Who's there? peepers, . . . eavesdroppers?

Peer

So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

See how his gorget peers above his gown!

Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads.

As if through a dungeon grate he peered.

In song he never had his peer.

Shall they consort only with their peers?

He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

A noble peer of mickle trust and power.

Peerage

When Charlemain with all his peerage fell.

Peerless

Unvailed her peerless light.

Peevish

She is peevish, sullen, froward.

To send such peevish tokens to a king.

Peg

To screw papal authority to the highest peg.

And took your grandees down a peg.

This over, the club will be visited for a “peg,” Anglice drink.

I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails.

Pegasus

Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace.

Peise

Lest leaden slumber peise me down.

Pelf

Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry?

Pellet

As swift as a pellet out of a gun.

Pelt

Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes.

The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds.

My Phillis me with pelted apples plies.

Another smothered seems to pelt and swear.

Pembroke table

The characteristic which gives a table the name of Pembroke consists in the drop leaves, which are held up, when the table is open, by brackets which turn under the top.

Pemmican

Then on pemican they feasted.

Pen

Graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock.

Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

My father stole two geese out of a pen.

Penalty

Death is the penalty imposed.

The penalty and forfeit of my bond.

Penance

And bitter penance, with an iron whip.

Quoth he, “The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.”

Pencil

With subtile pencil depainted was this storie.

Where nature pencils butterflies on flowers.

Pencraft

I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft.

Pend

Pending upon certain powerful motions.

ended within the limits . . . of Greece.

Pendant

Some hang upon the pendants of her ear.

Many . . . have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.

Pendent

Often their tresses, when shaken, with pendent icicles tinkle.

Pendragon

The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings.

Penetrable

And pierce his only penetrable part.

I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind entreats.

Penetrate

The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.

Things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate.

Preparing to penetrate to the north and west.

Born where Heaven's influence scarce can penetrate.

The sweet of life that penetrates so near.

Penetration

And to each in ward part, With gentle penetration, though unseen, Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep.

A penetration into the difficulties of algebra.

Penetrative

His look became keen and penetrative.

Led on by skill of penetrative soul.

Peninsulate

South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm.

Penitence

Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom.

Penitent

Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered.

Penitential

Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.

Penny

What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, what munition sent?

Pennyworth

The priests sold the better pennyworths.

Pensile

The long, pensile branches of the birches.

Pension

The stomach's pension, and the time's expense.

To all that kept the city pensions and wages.

One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles.

Pensioner

The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.

Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital.

Pensive

The pensive secrecy of desert cell.

Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed.

Pent

Here in the body pent.

No pent-up Utica contracts your powers.

Penurious

Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream.

Penury

They were exposed to hardship and penury.

It arises in neither from penury of thought.

People

Unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

The ants are a people not strong.

Before many peoples, and nations, and tongues.

Earth's monarchs are her peoples.

A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.

People were tempted to lend by great premiums.

People have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water.

And strive to gain his pardon from the people.

As the gay motes that people the sunbeams.

Peptic

Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic.

Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ?

Peradventure

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city.

Perceive

Jesus perceived their wickedness.

You may, fair lady, Perceive I speak sincerely.

Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are still in the dark.

The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below.

Percept

The modern discussion between percept and concept, the one sensuous, the other intellectual.

Perceptible

With a perceptible blast of the air.

Perception

Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence.

This experiment discovereth perception in plants.

Perch

As chauntecleer among his wives all Sat on his perche, that was in his hall.

Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions.

Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

Percuss

Flame percussed by air giveth a noise.

Percussion

The thunderlike percussion of thy sounds.

Perdition

The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet.

If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition.

Perdu

He should lie perdue who is to walk the round.

Perdure

The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousand lines.

Perdy

Ah, dame! perdy ye have not done me right.

Peremptory

Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither.

Be not too positive and peremptory.

Briefly, then, for we are peremptory.

Perennial

The perennial existence of bodies corporate.

Perfect

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun.

I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

O most entire perfect sacrifice!

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms.

God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.

Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species.

Perfection

What tongue can her perfections tell?

Perfective

Actions perfective of their natures.

Perfectly

As many as touched were made perfectly whole.

Perfidy

The ambition and perfidy of tyrants.

His perfidy to this sacred engagement.

Perform

I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for me.

Great force to perform what they did attempt.

To perform your father's will.

Perform a part thou hast not done before.

Performance

Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible.

Perfume

And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies.

No rich perfumes refresh the fruitful field.

And thou shalt make it a perfume.

Perhaps

And pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

Periapt

Now help, ye charming spells and periapts.

Periclitate

Periclitating, pardi! the whole family.

Peril

In perils of waters, in perils of robbers.

Adventure hard With peril great achieved.

Perilous

Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds.

For I am perilous with knife in hand.

Period

How by art to make plants more lasting than their ordinary period.

So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period.

Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period.

This is the period of my ambition.

Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.

Periodic

The periodical times of all the satellites.

The periodic return of a plant's flowering.

To influence opinion through the periodical press.

Perish

I perish with hunger!

Grow up and perish, as the summer fly.

The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking.

Perjure

Want will perjure The ne'er-touched vestal.

And with a virgin innocence did pray For me, that perjured her.

Perky

There amid perky larches and pines.

Permanent

Eternity stands permanent and fixed.

Permeate

God was conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things.

Permeation

Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence.

Permission

High permission of all-ruling Heaven.

You have given me your permission for this address.

Permit

What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone.

Thou art permitted to speak for thyself.

Let us not aggravate our sorrows, But to the gods permit the event of things.

Permitter

A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin.

Permutation

The violent convulsions and permutations that have been made in property.

Permute

Bought, trucked, permuted, or given.

Pernicious

Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar.

Pernicious to his health.

Perpetrate

What the worst perpetrate, or best endure.

Perpetuable

Varieties are perpetuable, like species.

Perpetual

Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.

Perpetual feast of nectared sweets.

Perpetually

The Bible and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language.

Perpetuity

A path to perpetuity of fame.

The perpetuity of a single emotion is insanity.

Perplex

No artful wildness to perplex the scene.

What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.

We are perplexed, but not in despair.

We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind.

Perplexity

By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more.

Perquisite

The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldiers.

The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good.

Persecute

Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

Persecution

Persecution produces no sincere conviction.

Perseverance

Whose constant perseverance overcame Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.

Persevere

Thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright.

Persism

This system we shall call 'Persism', in order to free ourselves of the popular associations still connected with such terms as magism, Parseeism, and so forth; meaning by 'Persism' the teaching of Zarathustra as it affected the Greek and Latin world.

Persist

If they persist in pointing their batteries against particular persons, no laws of war forbid the making reprisals.

Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so.

That face persists. It floats up; it turns over in my mind.

Person

His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler.

No man can long put on a person and act a part.

To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright.

How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!

A fair persone, and strong, and young of age.

If it assume my noble father's person.

Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.

Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection.

True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.

Personable

Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind.

The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable.

Personage

The damsel well did view his personage.

Personal

Every man so termed by way of personal difference.

The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain.

The immediate and personal speaking of God.

Personality

Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.

Sharp personalities were exchanged.

Personally

He, being cited, personally came not.

She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king.

Personate

In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous.

Personify

The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things.

Personize

Milton has personized them.

Perspective

Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc.

Perspectively

You see them perspectively.

Perspire

Firs . . . perspire a fine balsam of turpentine.

Persuade

Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

We will persuade him, be it possible.

Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.

Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.

Persuasion

For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion.

If the general persuasion of all men does so account it.

My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention.

Of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.

Is 't possible that my deserts to you Can lack persuasion?

Pert

The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play.

Pertain

Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them.

These words pertain unto us at this time as they pertained to them at their time.

Pertinacious

Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study.

Pertinence

The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse.

Perturb

Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying.

Peruse

Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed.

Pervade

That labyrinth is easily pervaded.

A spirit of cabal, intrigue, and proselytism pervaded all their thoughts, words, and actions.

Perverse

The only righteous in a world perverse.

To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.

Pervert

Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.

He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.

That notorious pervert, Henry of Navarre.

Pervious

[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way.

God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.

Pest

England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest.

Pester

We are pestered with mice and rats.

A multitude of scribblers daily pester the world.

All rivers and pools . . . pestered full with fishes.

Pestiferous

Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held.

Pestilence

The pestilence that walketh in darkness.

I'll pour this pestilence into his ear.

Pestilential

So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin.

pet

The love of cronies, pets, and favorites.

Some young lady's pet curate.

Petit

By what small, petit hints does the mind catch hold of and recover a vanishing notion.

Petition

A house of prayer and petition for thy people.

This last petition heard of all her prayer.

You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity.

Petitionary

Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen.

Petrifactive

The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies.

Petrific

Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry.

Petrificate

Our hearts petrificated were.

Petrify

A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.

And petrify a genius to a dunce.

A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.

The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing.

Like Niobe we marble grow, And petrify with grief.

Pettifogger

A pettifogger was lord chancellor.

Pettifoggery

Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries.

Petty

Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all.

Petulance

Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.

The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown.

Phalanx

The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower.

At present they formed a united phalanx.

The sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, All huddling into phalanx, stood and gazed.

Phantasm

They be but phantasms or apparitions.

Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation.

Phantom

Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise.

She was a phantom of delight.

Phantom isles are floating in the skies.

Pharos

He . . . built a pharos, or lighthouse.

Phenomenon

In the phenomena of the material world, and in many of the phenomena of mind.

Phial

Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust.

Philander

You can't go philandering after her again.

Philistinism

On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism.

Philosopheme

This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian myths, is a philosopheme.

Philosopher

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him.

philosophize

Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must.

Philosophy

[Books] of Aristotle and his philosophie.

We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school.

Then had he spent all his philosophy.

Of good and evil much they argued then, . . . Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Phlegethon

Fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.

Phlegm

They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm.

phone

E. T. phone home.

Phonogram

Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved.

Phonography

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Photograph

He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.

He is photographed on my mind.

Phrase

“Convey” the wise it call. “Steal!” foh! a fico for the phrase.

Thou speak'st In better phrase and matter than thou didst.

Phraseology

Most completely national in his . . . phraseology.

Physic

The labor we delight in physics pain.

A mind diseased no remedy can physic.

Physical

Labor, in the physical world, is . . . employed in putting objects in motion.

A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.

Is Brutus sick? and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning?

Physically

I am not now treating physically of light or colors.

He that lives physically must live miserably.

Physicism

Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.

Physique

With his white hair and splendid physique.

Piazza

We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas.

Pick

As high as I could pick my lance.

Did you pick Master Slender's purse?

He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.

Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?

France and Russia have the pick of our stables.

Pickaback

A woman stooping to take a child pickaback.

Picked

Let the stake be made picked at the top.

Pickedness

Too much pickedness is not manly.

Pickerel

Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel.

Picking

was too warm on picking work to dwell.

Pickthank

Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers.

Picture

Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.

The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

I have not seen him so pictured.

Picturesque

What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess.

Piddling

The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes.

Piece

Bring it out piece by piece.

Thy mother was a piece of virtue.

His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world.

His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him.

Piecemeal

The beasts will tear thee piecemeal.

Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that.

Piecework

The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre.

Pierce

Can no prayers pierce thee?

And pierced to the skin, but bit no more.

She would not pierce further into his meaning.

Pierian

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Pietism

The Schöne Seele, that ideal of gentle pietism, in “Wilhelm Meister.”

Piety

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man.

Conferred upon me for the piety Which to my country I was judged to have shown.

Pigeon

He's pigeoned and undone.

Pight

[His horse] pight him on the pommel of his head.

I found him pight to do it.

Pigtail

The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail.

Pilchard

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings.

Pile

Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.

The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.

The labor of an age in piled stones.

Pilfer

And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep.

Pilgrim

Strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Pilgrimage

The days of the years of my pilgrimage.

In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage.

Pill

[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods.

Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob.

Pillage

Which pillage they with merry march bring home.

Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.

They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.

Pillar

Jacob set a pillar upon her grave.

The place . . . vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood.

By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire.

Pillion

His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups.

Pillow

[Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard.

Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.

Pillowed

Pillowedon buckler cold and hard.

Pilose

The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering.

Pin

With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast.

He . . . did not care a pin for her.

Pinch

He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.

Full seemly her wimple ipinched was.

Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation.

The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare.

Pindarical

Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose.

Pine

That people that pyned him to death.

One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.

Pinfold

A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.

Pinion

Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome.

Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips.

Pinnace

Whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs.

Pinnacle

Some renowned metropolis With glistering spires and pinnacles around.

Three silent pinnacles of aged snow.

The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate.

Pinner

With kerchief starched, and pinners clean.

Pioned

Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims.

Pious

Where was the martial brother's pious care?

Pip

To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg.

Pipe

Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.

The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.

We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced.

A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes.

As fine a ship's company as was ever piped aloft.

Pipestem

Took a long reed for a pipestem.

Pippin

We will eat a last year's pippin.

Pique

Men take up piques and displeasures.

Wars had arisen . . . upon a personal pique.

Though it have the pique, and long, 'Tis still for something in the wrong.

Pique her, and soothe in turn.

Men . . . pique themselves upon their skill.

Pirate

They advertised they would pirate his edition.

Pit

Tumble me into some loathsome pit.

Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained.

He keepth back his soul from the pit.

The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits.

They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave.

Pitch

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

The welkin pitched with sullen could.

The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch.

Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.

Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, down Into this deep.

Enterprises of great pitch and moment.

To lowest pitch of abject fortune.

He lived when learning was at its highest pitch.

The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends.

Pitchfork

He has been pitchforked into the footguards.

Piteous

The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.

She was so charitable and so pitous.

The most piteous tale of Lear.

Pith

Enterprises of great pith and moment.

Pithy

This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed.

In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy.

Pitiful

The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible.

That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.

Pittance

One half only of this pittance was ever given him in money.

The inconsiderable pittance of faithful professors.

Pity

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.

He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog.

What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country!

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy.

Placable

Methought I saw him placable and mild.

Placard

All placards or edicts are published in his name.

Place

Here is the place appointed.

What place can be for us Within heaven's bound?

The word place has sometimes a more confused sense, and stands for that space which any body takes up; and so the universe is a place.

Are you native of this place?

Men in great place are thrice servants.

I know my place as I would they should do theirs.

The place of the scripture which he read was this.

My word hath no place in you.

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown.

Place such over them to be rulers.

Place it for her chief virtue.

Placet

The king . . . annulled the royal placet.

Plack

With not a plack in the pocket of the poet.

Plague

And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail.

The different plague of each calamity.

Thus were they plagued And worn with famine.

She will plague the man that loves her most.

Plain

We with piteous heart unto you pleyne.

The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

Our troops beat an army in plain fight.

Descending fro the mountain into playn.

Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain.

Lead forth my soldiers to the plain.

We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.

What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech.

Plaint

There are three just grounds of war with Spain: one of plaint, two upon defense.

Plait

The plaits and foldings of the drapery.

Plaited

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.

Plan

God's plans like lines pure and white unfold.

The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

Even in penance, planning sins anew.

Plane

He planed away the names . . . written on his tables.

What student came but that you planed her path.

Planet

There's some ill planet reigns.

Planet-stricken

Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse.

Plank

His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.

Plant

It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey.

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees.

It engenders choler, planteth anger.

Planting of countries like planting of woods.

We will plant some other in the throne.

I have planted; Apollos watered.

Plantage

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon.

Plantation

While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.

Planting

Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord.

Plash

Far below him plashed the waters.

Plastery

The stone . . . is a poor plastery material.

Plastic

See plastic Nature working to his end.

Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art.

Plat

Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.

This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve.

I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground.

But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat.

Plate

Mangled . . . through plate and mail.

Thus plated in habiliments of war.

Platform

lf the platform just reflects the order.

Church discipline is platformed in the Bible.

Platitude

To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude.

Platter

The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef.

Plaudit

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng.

Plausibility

Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities.

To give any plausibility to a scheme.

Plausibly

The Romans plausibly did give consent.

Play

As Cannace was playing in her walk.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play!

And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword.

“Nay,” quod this monk, “I have no lust to pleye.”

Men are apt to play with their healths.

One that . . . can play well on an instrument.

Play, my friend, and charm the charmer.

His mother played false with a smith.

The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play.

Even as the waving sedges play with wind.

The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets.

All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart.

A lord will hear your play to-night.

Courts are theaters where some men play.

Art thou alive? Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight.

First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul.

Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies.

Thou canst play the rational if thou wilt.

John naturally loved rough play.

A play ought to be a just image of human nature.

The joints are let exactly into one another, that they have no play between them.

I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play.

Plaything

A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age.

Plea

The Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.

No plea must serve; 't is cruelty to spare.

Plead

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!

Every man should plead his own matter.

I will neither plead my age nor sickness, in excuse of faults.

Pleader

So fair a pleader any cause may gain.

Pleasance

The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses.

Pleasant

Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

From grave to light, from pleasant to serve.

Pleasantry

The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit.

The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world.

Please

I pray to God that it may plesen you.

What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he.

A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech.

To-morrow, may it please you.

What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more.

For we that live to please, must please to live.

Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties.

That he would please 8give me my liberty.

Pleasurable

Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable.

O, sir, you are very pleasurable.

Pleasure

At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.

Use your pleasure; if your love do not presuade you to come, let not my letter.

Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure

[Rolled] his hoop to pleasure Edith.

Plebe

The plebe with thirst and fury prest.

Plebification

You begin with the attempt to popularize learning . . . but you will end in the plebification of knowledge.

Plebiscite

Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the French.

Pledge

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

To pledge my vow, I give my hand.

Pledge me, my friend, and drink till thou be'st wise.

Plenary

A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full.

Plenteous

The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods.

Plentiful

If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year.

He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from

Plenty

Houses of office stuffed with plentee.

The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.

Those countries where shrubs are plenty.

Plethora

He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination.

Plexus

In the perception of a tree the reference to an object is circumscribed and directed by a plexus of visual and other presentations.

Pliant

The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason.

Plight

A plighted garment of divers colors.

To bring our craft all in another plight

He plighted his right hand Unto another love, and to another land.

Here my inviolable faith I plight.

Before its setting hour, divide The bridegroom from the plighted bride.

Plod

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.

Plop

The body plopped up, turning on its side.

Plot

This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

I have overheard a plot of death.

O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!

And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

The wicked plotteth against the just.

The prince did plot to be secretly gone.

Plouter

I did not want to plowter about any more.

Plow

Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow.

Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.

Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails.

With speed we plow the watery way.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ?

Plowgate

Not having one plowgate of land.

Pluck

Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution.

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.

E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.

They which pass by the way do pluck her.

Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck.

Plucker

Thou setter up and plucker down of kings.

Plucky

If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright.

Plum

The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation.

Plumb

He did not attempt to plumb his intellect.

Plume

Wings . . . of many a colored plume.

His high plume, that nodded o'er his head.

Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers.

Plumelet

When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.

Plummet

I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded.

Plump

The god of wine did his plump clusters bring.

After the plump statement that the author was at Erceldoune and spake with Thomas.

To visit islands and the plumps of men.

To plump up the hollowness of their history with improbable miracles.

Plunder

Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God.

Inroads and plunders of the Saracens.

Plunge

Bound and plunged him into a cell.

We shall be plunged into perpetual errors.

Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca.

Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea.

To plunge into guilt of a murther.

Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges.

She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or accuse her son.

And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows?

Plural

Plural faith, which is too much by one.

Pluralist

Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists.

Plurality

Take the plurality of the world, and they are neither wise nor good.

Plus

Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power.

Pluto

Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice.

Ply

As men may warm wax with handes plie.

And plies him with redoubled strokes

He plies the duke at morning and at night.

Go ply thy needle; meddle not.

Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply.

It would rather burst atwo than plye.

The willow plied, and gave way to the gust.

Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily).

He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter.

The heavy hammers and mallets plied.

The late learners can not so well take the ply.

Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character.

The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last.

Pneumatic

The pneumatical substance being, in some bodies, the native spirit of the body.

Poach

His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground.

Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter.

Pock

Of pokkes and of scab every sore.

Pocket

He would pocket the expense of the license.

He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead.

Poesy

Music and poesy used to quicken you.

Poet

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.

Poetaster

The talk of forgotten poetasters.

Poetize

I versify the truth, not poetize.

Poetry

For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry.

Poignant

His wit . . . became more lively and poignant.

Point

When time's first point begun Made he all souls.

And there a point, for ended is my tale.

Commas and points they set exactly right.

A lord full fat and in good point.

He told him, point for point, in short and plain.

In point of religion and in point of honor.

Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ?

They will hardly prove his point.

This fellow doth not stand upon points.

[He] cared not for God or man a point.

Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them.

He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech.

Now must the world point at poor Katharine.

Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe.

He treads with caution, and he points with fear.

Point-blank

To sin point-blank against God's word.

Point-device

You are rather point-devise in your accouterments.

Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice.

Pointed

His moral pleases, not his pointed wit.

Poise

Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment.

Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie.

One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality.

To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit.

He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence.

Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow.

The slender, graceful spars Poise aloft in air.

Poison

If you poison us, do we not die ?

Whispering tongues can poison truth.

Tooth that poisons if it bite.

Poke

They wallowed as pigs in a poke.

He poked John, and said “Sleepest thou ?”

A man must have poked into Latin and Greek.

Pokerish

There is something pokerish about a deserted dwelling.

Poking

Bred to some poking profession.

Pole

Shoots against the dusky pole.

Polemic

The sarcasms and invectives of the young polemic.

Polemical

Polemical and impertinent disputations.

Policy

The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.

What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?

Polish

Another prism of clearer glass and better polish.

This Roman polish and this smooth behavior.

Polite

Rays of light falling on a polite surface.

He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.

Politic

He with his people made all but one politic body.

Politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a lantern; Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars.

Politician

While empiric politicians use deceit.

Like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

The politician . . . ready to do anything that he apprehends for his advantage.

Politics

When we say that two men are talking politics, we often mean that they are wrangling about some mere party question.

Polity

Nor is possible that any form of polity, much less polity ecclesiastical, should be good, unless God himself be author of it.

Poll

We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands.

The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.

All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.

When he [Absalom] pollled his head.

His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.

Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.

Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.

The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.

Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.

And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.

Pollute

The land was polluted with blood.

Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth.

Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

They have polluted themselves with blood.

Polygamous

Most deer, cattle, and sheep are polygamous.

Polyglot

Enriched by the publication of polyglots.

Polytheism

In the Old Testament, the gradual development of polytheism from the primitive monotheism may be learned.

Polytype

By pressing the wood cut into semifluid metal, an intaglio matrix is produced: and from this matrix, in a similar way, a polytype in relief is obtained.

Pompous

he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.

Pond

Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

Ponder

Ponder the path of thy feet.

Ponderous

The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws.

Ponent

Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.

Poniard

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Pontifical

Now had they brought the work by wondrous art Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock Over the vexed abyss.

Pool

Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.

The sleepy pool above the dam.

He plays pool at the billiard houses.

Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues.

Poop

With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea.

The poop was beaten gold.

Poor

That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.

And for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray.

Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing.

Poor-john

Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare.

Poorly

Nor is their courage or their wealth so low, That from his wars they poorly would retire.

Pop

He that killed my king . . . Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.

A trick of popping up and down every moment.

He popped a paper into his hand.

Popelote

So gay a popelote, so sweet a wench.

Popinjay

The pye and popyngay speak they know not what.

Poppied

The poppied sails doze on the yard.

Populace

To . . . calm the peers and please the populace.

They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces.

Popular

The men commonly held in popular estimation are greatest at a distance.

Homilies are plain popular instructions.

The smallest figs, called popular figs, . . . are, of all others, the basest and of least account.

Such popular humanity is treason.

Popularity

A popularity which has lasted down to our time.

This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation.

Popularities, and circumstances which . . . sway the ordinary judgment.

A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease.

Popularly

The victor knight, Bareheaded, popularly low had bowed.

Populate

Great shoals of people which go on to populate.

Populous

Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms.

Porcelain

Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break.

Porch

The graceless Helen in the porch I spied Of Vesta's temple.

Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us.

Pore

The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing.

Porousness

They will forcibly get into the porousness of it.

Port

Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads.

We are in port if we have Thee.

Him I accuse The city ports by this hath entered.

Form their ivory port the cherubim Forth issuing.

Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water.

They are easily ported by boat into other shires.

Began to hem him round with ported spears.

And of his port as meek as is a maid.

The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world.

Portable

How light and portable my pain seems now!

Portague

Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls.

Portal

Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone.

From out the fiery portal of the east.

Portass

By God and by this porthors I you swear.

Portcullis

She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew.

Ported

We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes.

Portend

Many signs portended a dark and stormy day.

Portent

My loss by dire portents the god foretold.

Portentous

For, I believe, they are portentous things.

Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor.

Porter

To him the porter openeth.

Portion

These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him!

Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

The lord of that servant . . . will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

Man's portion is to die and rise again.

Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.

And portion to his tribes the wide domain.

Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.

Portliness

Such pride is praise; such portliness is honor.

Portoir

Branches . . . which were portoirs, and bare grapes.

Portrait

In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

Portraiture

For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his.

Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.

Portray

Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem.

Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed.

Pose

He . . . posed before her as a hero.

A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.

Posied

In poised lockets bribe the fair.

Position

We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it.

Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before.

Positional

Ascribing unto plants positional operations.

Positive

Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward's son.

In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so.

Some positive, persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always.

Positively

Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply.

Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord, Before I positively speak herein.

I would ask . . . whether . . . the divine law does not positively require humility and meekness.

Positiveness

Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners.

The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only.

Poss

A cat . . . possed them [the rats] about.

Posse comitatus

As if the passion that rules were the sheriff of the place, and came off with all the posse.

Possess

Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed.

I am yours, and all that I possess.

How . . . to possess the purpose they desired.

Those which were possessed with devils.

For ten inspired, ten thousand are possessed.

I have possessed your grace of what I purpose.

Record a gift . . . of all he dies possessed Unto his son.

We possessed our selves of the kingdom of Naples.

To possess our minds with an habitual good intention.

Possession

When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession.

The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

How long hath this possession held the man?

Possessioner

Having been of old freemen and possessioners.

Possessor

As if he had been possessor of the whole world.

Possible

With God all things are possible.

Possibly

Can we . . . possibly his love desert?

When possibly I can, I will return.

Post

They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses.

Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar.

Unto his order he was a noble post.

When God sends coin I will discharge your post.

In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other.

I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post.

I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post.

He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years.

The post of honor is a private station.

On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me.

You have not posted your books these ten years.

Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day.

And post o'er land and ocean without rest.

Postdate

Of these [predictions] some were postdate; cunningly made after the thing came to pass.

Posterior

Hesiod was posterior to Homer.

Posterity

If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity.

Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.

Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.

Postern

He by a privy postern took his flight.

Out at the postern, by the abbey wall.

Postil

Langton also made postils upon the whole Bible.

Postiling and allegorizing on Scripture.

Postillate

Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand.

Postpone

His praise postponed, and never to be paid.

All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this.

Postulate

The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not as proposition which it would be impossible to deny.

The Byzantine emperors appear to have . . . postulated a sort of paramount supremacy over this nation.

Posture

Atalanta, the posture of whose limbs was so lively expressed . . . one would have sworn the very picture had run.

In most strange postures We have seen him set himself.

The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action.

His [man's] noblest posture and station in this world.

The several postures of his devout soul.

Posy

We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies.

Pot

When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.

It is less labor to plow than to pot it.

Potency

A place of potency and away o' the state.

Potent

Moses once more his potent rod extends.

Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors.

Potentate

The blessed and only potentate.

Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones.

Potential

Potential existence means merely that the thing may be at ome time; actual existence, that it now is.

Potentially

The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite.

Potluck

A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on.

Pottage

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.

Potter

The potter heard, and stopped his wheel.

Pottering about the Mile End cottages.

Pottle

A dry pottle of sack before him.

He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand.

Poult

Starling the heath poults or black game.

Pounce

Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren.

Now pounce him lightly, And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

Pound

With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks.

Pour

I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord.

Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.

London doth pour out her citizens !

Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ?

Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ?

In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.

Poussette

Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross.

Pout

Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love.

Poverty

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.

Powder

Grind their bones to powder small.

A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.

Powdered

Powdered beef, pickled meats.

Power

Power, then, is active and passive; faculty is active power or capacity; capacity is passive power.

Power is no blessing in itself but when it is employed to protect the innocent.

And the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Never such a power . . . Was levied in the body of a land.

The guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness . . . into a received belief.

Powerful

The powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.

Powwow

Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow.

Practice

A heart . . . exercised with covetous practices.

Obsolete words may be revived when they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice.

There are two functions of the soul, -- contemplation and practice.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice; each, to a certain extent, supposes the other; theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

Practice is exercise of an art, or the application of a science in life, which application is itself an art.

He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.

As this advice ye practice or neglect.

In malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.

In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor.

They shall practice how to live secure.

Practice first over yourself to reign.

He will practice against thee by poison.

[I am] little inclined to practice on others, and as little that others should practice on me.

Practive

The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive.

Pragmatic

The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical.

We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions.

Low, pragmatical, earthly views of the gospel.

The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family.

My attorney and solicitor too; a fine pragmatic.

A royal pragmatic was accordingly passed.

Pragmatism

The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history.

Prairie

From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland.

Praise

Let her own works praise her in the gates.

We praise not Hector, though his name, we know, Is great in arms; 't is hard to praise a foe.

Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts!

There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice.

He is thy praise, and he is thy God.

Praline

Bonbons, pralines, . . . saccharine, crystalline substances of all kinds and colors.

Prance

Now rule thy prancing steed.

The insulting tyrant prancing o'er the field.

Prancer

Then came the captain . . . upon a brave prancer.

Prank

In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank.

White houses prank where once were huts.

The harpies . . . played their accustomed pranks.

His pranks have been too broad to bear with.

Prate

To prate and talk for life and honor.

And make a fool presume to prate of love.

What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate !

Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate.

Prattle

Mere prattle, without practice.

Pray

And to his goddess pitously he preyde.

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

I pray, sir. why am I beaten?

And as this earl was preyed, so did he.

We pray you . . . by ye reconciled to God.

I know not how to pray your patience.

Prayer

As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.

He made those excellent prayers which were published immediately after his death.

Preach

How shall they preach, except they be sent?

From that time Jesus began to preach.

That Cristes gospel truly wolde preche.

The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.

My master preaches patience to him.

Preacher

How shall they hear without a preacher?

No preacher is listened to but Time.

Preambulatory

Simon Magus had preambulatory impieties.

Precaution

They [ancient philosophers] treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution.

Precede

It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration.

Precedence

Which of them [the different desires] has the precedency in determining the will to the next action?

Precedent

Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only.

Precedential

All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity.

Precept

For precept must be upon precept.

No arts are without their precepts.

Preceptial

[Passion] would give preceptial medicine to rage.

Preceptive

The lesson given us here is preceptive to us.

Precinct

The parish, or precinct, shall proceed to a new choice.

Preciosity

He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.

Precious

She is more precious than rules.

Many things which are most precious are neglected only because the value of them lieth hid.

Lest that precious folk be with me wroth.

Elaborate embroidery of precious language.

Precipice

Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew.

Precipitant

They leave their little lives Above the clouds, precipitant to earth.

Should he return, that troop so blithe and bold, Precipitant in fear would wing their flight.

Precipitate

Precipitate the furious torrent flows.

She and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled region of the river.

Back to his sight precipitates her steps.

If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous.

The light vapor of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.

So many fathom down precipitating.

Precipitation

In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian.

The hurry, precipitation, and rapid motion of the water, returning . . . towards the sea.

Precise

The law in this point is not precise.

For the hour precise Exacts our parting hence.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

Precisian

The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian.

Precision

I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions.

Preclude

The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins.

This much will obviate and preclude the objections.

Precociousness

Saucy precociousness in learning.

That precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.

Precognosce

A committee of nine precognoscing the chances.

Preconceive

In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth.

Precursor

Evil thoughts are the invisible, airy precursors of all the storms and tempests of the soul.

Predatory

Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and predatory.

Predecessor

A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the state.

Predestinate

Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.

Predestination

Predestination had overruled their will.

Predicrotic

The predicrotic or tidal wave is best marked in a hard pulse, i. e., where the blood pressure is high.

Prediction

The predictions of cold and long winters.

Predominance

The predominance of conscience over interest.

Predominant

Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind.

Foul subordination is predominant.

Predominate

[Certain] rays may predominate over the rest.

Preface

This superficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise.

Heaven's high behest no preface needs.

Prefatory

That prefatory addition to the Creed.

Prefer

He spake, and to her hand preferred the bowl.

Presently prefer his suit to Cæsar.

Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high.

I would prefer him to a better place.

If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

Preferred an infamous peace before a most just war.

Preferably

To choose Plautus preferably to Terence.

Preference

Leave the critics on either side to contend about the preference due to this or that sort of poetry.

Knowledge of things alone gives a value to our reasonings, and preference of one man's knowledge over another's.

Preferment

Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other.

Neither royal blandishments nor promises of valuable preferment had been spared.

Prefiguration

A variety of prophecies and prefigurations.

Prefix

And now he hath to her prefixt a day.

Pregnant

Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.

Prejudge

The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament“ a universal clamor.”

Prejudicate

Our dearest friend Prejudicates the business.

Prejudice

Naught might hinder his quick prejudize.

Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man.

England and France might, through their amity, Breed him some prejudice.

Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning.

Seek how may prejudice the foe.

Prejudicial

His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs.

Prelacy

Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices.

Prelate

Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would desire the king were made a prelate.

Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording.

Prelatist

I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist.

Prelatize

An episcopacy that began then to prelatize.

Prelect

Spitting . . . was publicly prelected upon.

To prelect upon the military art.

Prelude

The last Georgic was a good prelude to the Aenis

The cause is more than the prelude, the effect is more than the sequel, of the fact.

The musicians preluded on their instruments.

We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.

[Music] preluding some great tragedy.

Premeditate

With words premeditated thus he said.

Preëminence

The preëminence of Christianity to any other religious scheme.

Painful preëminence! yourself to view Above life's weakness, and its comforts too.

Beneath the forehead's walled preëminence.

Preëminent

In goodness and in power preëminent.

Premise

The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served.

While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.

The premised flames of the last day.

If venesection and a cathartic be premised.

I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.

Premium

To think it not the necessity, but the premium and privilege of life, to eat and sleep without any regard to glory.

The law that obliges parishes to support the poor offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness.

People were tempted to lend, by great premiums and large interest.

Premonish

To teach, and to premonish.

Preëngage

But he was preëngaged by former ties.

Preëngagement

My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write.

Prenticehood

This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood.

Prenticeship

He served a prenticeship who sets up shop.

Preoccupy

I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave something to reflections than to preoccupy his judgment.

Preparation

I will show what preparations there were in nature for this dissolution.

I wish the chemists had been more sparing who magnify their preparations.

In the preparations of cookery, the most volatile parts of vegetables are destroyed.

Preparative

Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work.

Prepare

Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light.

That they may prepare a city for habitation.

Prepense

This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense.

Preponderance

The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability.

In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.

Preponderate

An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.

The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.

That is no just balance in which the heaviest side will not preponderate.

Preposition

He made a long preposition and oration.

Prepossess

It created him enemies, and prepossessed the lord general.

Preposterous

The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature.

Preposterous ass, that never read so far!

Preremote

In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect.

Prerequire

Some things are prerequired of us.

Prerequisite

The necessary prerequisites of freedom.

Prerogative

The two faculties that are the prerogative of man -- the powers of abstraction and imagination.

An unconstitutional exercise of his prerogative.

Then give me leave to have prerogative.

Presage

If there be aught of presage in the mind.

My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

Presageful

Dark in the glass of some presageful mood.

Presbyter

I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest.

New presbyter is but old priest writ large.

Prescience

God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents.

Prescient

Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event.

Prescribe

Prescribe not us our duties.

Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run.

A forwardness to prescribe to their opinions.

Prescription

That profound reverence for law and prescription which has long been characteristic of Englishmen.

Prescriptive

The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive.

Presence

Wrath shell be no more Thenceforth, but in thy presence joy entire.

In such a presence here to plead my thoughts.

An't please your grace, the two great cardinals. Wait in the presence.

The Sovran Presence thus replied.

Odmar, of all this presence does contain, Give her your wreath whom you esteem most fair.

A graceful presence bespeaks acceptance.

Present

These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

I'll bring thee to the present business

An ambassador . . . desires a present audience.

To find a god so present to my prayer.

Past and present, wound in one.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord.

Lectorides's memory is ever . . . presenting him with the thoughts of other persons.

So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.

My last, least offering, I present thee now.

Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy on her son Marcellus.

The patron of a church may present his clerk to a parsonage or vicarage; that is, may offer him to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted.

Presentation

Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.

Under the presentation of the shoots his wit.

If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.

Presentative

The latter term, presentative faculty, I use . . . in contrast and correlation to a “representative faculty.”

Presential

God's mercy is made presential to us.

Presentive

How greatly the word “will” is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.

Presently

The towns and forts you presently have.

And presently the fig tree withered away.

His precious body and blood presently three.

Presentment

Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentment.

Preservation

Give us particulars of thy preservation.

Preservative

To wear tablets as preservatives against the plague.

Preserve

O Lord, thou preserved man and beast.

Now, good angels preserve the king.

You can not preserve it from tainting.

Preside

Some o'er the public magazines preside.

President

His angels president In every province.

Just Apollo, president of verse.

Presidial

There are three presidial castles in this city.

Press

To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed.

I have misused the king's press.

Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together.

From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams.

And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms.

Press not a falling man too far.

Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.

Be sure to press upon him every motive.

The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on, by the king's commandment.

They pressed upon him for to touch him.

In their throng and press to that last hold.

They could not come nigh unto him for the press.

Pressure

Where the pressure of danger was not felt.

My people's pressures are grievous.

In the midst of his great troubles and pressures.

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past.

Prest

All prest to such battle he was.

Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.

Sums of money . . . prested out in loan.

Prestige

The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.

Presto

Presto! begone! 'tis here again.

Presume

Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?

Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.

Every man is to be presumed innocent till he is proved to be guilty.

What rests but that the mortal sentence pass, . . . Which he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted?

Do not presume too much upon my love.

This man presumes upon his parts.

Presumption

Thy son I killed for his presumption.

I had the presumption to dedicate to you a very unfinished piece.

Presumptuous

A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise.

Presuppose

Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand.

Pretend

Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.

Lest that too heavenly form, pretended To hellish falsehood, snare them.

This let him know, Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend Surprisal.

Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against his state.

For to what fine he would anon pretend, That know I well.

Pretender

It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty.

Pretense

Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power.

I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford.

Let not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense Of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince.

A very pretense and purpose of unkindness.

Pretension

The arrogant pretensions of Glengarry contributed to protract the discussion.

This was but an invention and pretension given out by the Spaniards.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

Preterit

Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa.

Preternatural

This vile and preternatural temper of mind.

Pretext

They suck the blood of those they depend on, under a pretext of service and kindness.

With how much or how little pretext of reason.

Prettiness

A style . . . without sententious pretension or antithetical prettiness.

Pretty

This is the prettiest lowborn lass that ever Ran on the greensward.

The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world.

[He] observed they were pretty men, meaning not handsome.

Pretty plainly professes himself a sincere Christian.

Prevail

When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

So David prevailed over the Philistine.

This kingdom could never prevail against the united power of England.

This custom makes the short-sighted bigots, and the warier skeptics, as far as it prevails.

He was prevailed with to restrain the Earl.

Prevail upon some judicious friend to be your constant hearer, and allow him the utmost freedom.

Prevailing

Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers.

Prevalence

The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him.

Prevalent

Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title.

This was the most received and prevalent opinion.

Prevaricate

He prevaricates with his own understanding.

Prevarication

The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.

Prevent

We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.

Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.

Their ready guilt preventing thy commands.

Perhaps forestalling night prevented them.

Strawberries . . . will prevent and come early.

Prevention

The greater the distance, the greater the prevention.

Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.

Preventive

Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.

Physic is either curative or preventive.

Previous

The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth.

Preëxistence

Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth.

Prey

And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey.

Already sees herself the monster's prey.

Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, . . . lion in prey.

More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.

Preyful

The preyful brood of savage beasts.

Price

We can afford no more at such a price.

Her price is far above rubies.

New treasures still, of countless price.

'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil.

With thine own blood to price his blood.

Prick

Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary.

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.

Some who are pricked for sheriffs.

Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off.

Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked.

Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.

The season pricketh every gentle heart.

My duty pricks me on to utter that.

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.

Prick-eared

Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland.

Pricker

The prickers, who rode foremost, . . . halted.

Prickle

Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath.

Pricksong

He fights as you sing pricksong.

Pride

Those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.

Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.

A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Let not the foot of pride come against me.

That hardly we escaped the pride of France.

Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride.

I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

A bold peasantry, their country's pride.

Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.

A falcon, towering in her pride of place.

Pluming and priding himself in all his services.

Prier

So pragmatical a prier he is into divine secrets.

Priest

Then the priest of Jupiter . . . brought oxen and garlands . . . and would have done sacrifice with the people.

Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Priestcraft

It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft than by violence.

Prig

The queer prig of a doctor.

Primal

It hath the primal eldest curse upon it.

The primal duties shine aloft like stars.

Primary

The church of Christ, in its primary institution.

These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.

Prime

She was not the prime cause, but I myself.

His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime In manhood where youth ended.

In the very prime of the world.

Hope waits upon the flowery prime.

Give him always of the prime.

Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime.

They sleep till that it was pryme large.

Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.

Primer

The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin.

As he sat in the school at his prymer.

Primeval

From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light.

Primitia

The primitias of your parsonage.

Primogenitive

The primogenitive and due of birth.

Primum mobile

The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile.

Prince

Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince.

Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.

Princedom

Thrones, princedoms, powers, dominions, I reduce.

Princekin

The princekins of private life.

Princely

My appetite was not princely got.

Princess

So excellent a princess as the present queen.

Principal

Wisdom is the principal thing.

Principality

Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

The prerogative and principality above everything else.

Principle

Doubting sad end of principle unsound.

The soul of man is an active principle.

Nature in your principles hath set [benignity].

Those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering.

Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection.

A good principle, not rightly understood, may prove as hurtful as a bad.

All kinds of dishonesty destroy our pretenses to an honest principle of mind.

Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.

Governors should be well principled.

Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.

Print

A look will print a thought that never may remove.

Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.

Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay.

Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.

From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth.

Where print of human feet was never seen.

Prison

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.

The tyrant Aeolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.

The prisoned eagle dies for rage.

His true respect will prison false desire.

Sir William Crispyn with the duke was led Together prisoned.

Prisoner

Prisoner of Hope thou art, -- look up and sing.

Prithee

What was that scream for, I prithee?

Prithee, tell me, Dimple-chin.

Privacy

Her sacred privacies all open lie.

Private

Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests.

A private person may arrest a felon.

Nor must I be unmindful of my private.

What have kings, that privates have not too?

Privateer

Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.

Privation

Evil will be known by consequence, as being only a privation, or absence, of good.

Privation mere of light and absent day.

Privative

Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.

Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives.

Privilege

He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman.

The privilege birthright was a double portion.

A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties.

To privilege dishonor in thy name.

He took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands.

Privity

I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my purpose.

All the doors were laid open for his departure, not without the privity of the Prince of Orange.

Privy

His wife also being privy to it.

Myself am one made privy to the plot.

Prize

I will depart my pris, or my prey, by deliberation.

His own prize, Whom formerly he had in battle won.

I'll never wrestle for prize more.

I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

A goodly price that I was prized at.

I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor.

I prized your person, but your crown disdain.

Prizer

Appeareth no man yet to answer the prizer.

Præmunire

Wolsey incurred a præmunire, and forfeited his honor, estate, and life.

Probability

Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so.

The whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities.

We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail.

Probable

That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it.

I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain.

Probably

Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done.

Probation

When by miracle God dispensed great gifts to the laity, . . . he gave probation that he intended that all should prophesy and preach.

No [view of human life] seems so reasonable as that which regards it as a state of probation.

Probationary

To consider this life . . . as a probationary state.

Probationer

While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven.

Probe

The growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts, of the crown.

Problematic

Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers.

Procatarctic

The physician inquires into the procatarctic causes.

Proceed

If thou proceed in this thy insolence.

I proceeded forth and came from God.

It proceeds from policy, not love.

He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry.

He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.

This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.

Proceeding

The proceedings of the high commission.

Process

The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

Tell her the process of Antonio's end.

Procession

That the procession of their life might be More equable, majestic, pure, and free.

Here comes the townsmen on procession.

Processional

The processional services became more frequent.

Processive

Because it is language, -- ergo, processive.

Proclaim

To proclaim liberty to the captives.

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Throughout the host proclaim A solemn council forthwith to be held.

I heard myself proclaimed.

Proclamation

King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted.

Proclivity

He had such a dexterous proclivity as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness.

Procrastinate

Hopeless and helpless Aegeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end.

I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.

Procrastination

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Procure

If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.

The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode.

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

Procurement

They think it done By her procurement.

Prodigal

In fighting fields [patriots] were prodigal of blood.

Prodigally

Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows.

Prodigious

It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky.

Prodigy

So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign.

Produce

Produce your cause, saith the Lord.

Your parents did not produce you much into the world.

This soil produces all sorts of palm trees.

[They] produce prodigious births of body or mind.

The greatest jurist his country had produced.

Product

There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages.

These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.

He that doth much . . . products his mortality.

Productive

And kindle with thy own productive fire.

This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit.

Productivity

Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity.

Proem

Thus much may serve by way of proem.

Proface

Master page, good master page, sit. Proface!

Profanation

'T were profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.

Profane

The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.

Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.

The priests in the temple profane the sabbath.

So idly to profane the precious time.

Profanely

The character of God profanely impeached.

Profanity

The brisk interchange of profanity and folly.

Profectitious

The threefold distinction of profectitious, adventitious, and professional was ascertained.

Profess

The best and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

I do profess to be no less than I seem.

Profession

A solemn vow, promise, and profession.

The Indians quickly perceive the coincidence or the contradiction between professions and conduct.

Hi tried five or six professions in turn.

Proffer

I reck not what wrong that thou me profre.

He made a proffer to lay down his commission.

Profit

Let no man anticipate uncertain profits.

This I speak for your own profit.

If you dare do yourself a profit and a right.

The word preached did not profit them.

It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs.

I profit not by thy talk.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath.

Profitable

What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.

Profiting

That thy profiting may appear to all.

Profligate

The foe is profligate, and run.

A race more profligate than we.

Made prostitute and profligate muse.

Profound

Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.

What humble gestures! What profound reverence!

God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned.

Profoundly

Why sigh you so profoundly?

Profuse

A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers.

Profuseness

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness.

Profusion

Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles?

Prog

A perfect artist in progging for money.

I have been endeavoring to prog for you.

So long as he picked from the filth his prog.

Progenitor

And reverence thee their great progenitor.

Prognathous

Their countenances had the true prognathous character.

Prognostic

That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.

Prognosticate

I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate.

Progress

The king being returned from his progresse.

Let me wipe off this honorable dew, That silverly doth progress on thy checks.

They progress in that style in proportion as their pieces are treated with contempt.

The war had progressed for some time.

If man progresses, art must progress too.

Progression

I hope, in a short progression, you will be wholly immerged in the delices and joys of religion.

Prohibit

Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.

Prohibition

The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions.

Proin

The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms.

Project

Vented much policy, and projects deep.

Projects of happiness devised by human reason.

He entered into the project with his customary ardor.

Before his feet herself she did project.

Behold! th' ascending villas on my side Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.

What sit then projecting peace and war?

Prolix

With wig prolix, down flowing to his waist.

Prolixity

Idly running on with vain prolixity.

Proll

Though ye prolle aye, ye shall it never find.

Prolong

Prolong awhile the traitor's life.

The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night.

Prolongable

Each syllable being a prolongable quantity.

Prolusion

Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted.

Promiscuous

A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot.

Promise

For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

My native country was full of youthful promise.

He . . . commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father.

I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced.

Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? I fear it, I promise you.

Promontory

Like one that stands upon a promontory.

Promote

I will promote thee unto very great honor.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee.

promotion

Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

Prompt

Very discerning and prompt in giving orders.

Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at's feet.

And you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies.

When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress, his obedience was prompt.

The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt.

To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months.

God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity.

And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams.

Promptitude

Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage.

Promulge

Extraordinary doctrines these for the age in which they were promulged.

Prone

Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone.

Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.

Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land.

Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy.

Prong

Prick it on a prong of iron.

Pronounce

Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you.

The God who hallowed thee and blessed, Pronouncing thee all good.

Pronounced

[His] views became every day more pronounced.

Proof

For whatsoever mother wit or art Could work, he put in proof.

You shall have many proofs to show your skill.

Formerly, a very rude mode of ascertaining the strength of spirits was practiced, called the proof.

I'll have some proof.

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases.

I . . . have found thee Proof against all temptation.

This was a good, stout proof article of faith.

Prop

Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.

For being not propp'd by ancestry.

I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.

Propagate

The infection was propagated insensibly.

Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate.

Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.

No need that thou Should'st propagate, already infinite.

Propagation

There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation.

Propend

We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down.

Propension

Your full consent Gave wings to my propension.

Proper

Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast.

Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity.

The proper study of mankind is man.

In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All proper to the spring, and sprightly May.

Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child.

Properly

Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly.

Property

Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general.

Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood.

Shall man assume a property in man?

I will draw a bill of properties.

They have here propertied me.

Prophecy

He hearkens after prophecies and dreams.

Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man.

Prophesy

He doth not prophesy good concerning me.

Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy.

Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee.

Prophetic

And fears are oft prophetic of the event.

Propine

The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined.

Propitiate

Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.

Propitiation

He [Jesus Christ] is the propitiation for our sins.

Propitious

And now t' assuage the force of this new flame, And make thee [Love] more propitious in my need.

Proportion

The image of Christ, made after his own proportion.

Formed in the best proportions of her sex.

Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.

Let the women . . . do the same things in their proportions and capacities.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value . . . but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Nature had proportioned her without any fault.

Proportionable

But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom.

Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining.

Proportionate

What is proportionate to his transgression.

Propose

That being proposed brimfull of wine, one scarce could lift it up.

I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.

There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice, Proposing with the prince and Claudio.

Proposition

Some persons . . . change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

Propound

And darest thou to the Son of God propound To worship thee, accursed?

It is strange folly to set ourselves no mark, to propound no end, in the hearing of the gospel.

Propriety

So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being a part of his need to refresh and supply hers.

We find no mention hereof in ancient zoographers, . . . who seldom forget proprieties of such a nature.

Propulsion

God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion.

Prorogue

He prorogued his government.

Parliament was prorogued to [meet at] Westminster.

The Parliament was again prorogued to a distant day.

Proscribe

Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed.

The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice.

Proscription

Every victory by either party had been followed by a sanguinary proscription.

Prose

I speak in prose, and let him rymes make.

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry -- the best order.

Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter.

Prosecute

I am beloved Hermia; Why should not I, then, prosecute my right ?

To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.

Prosecution

Keeping a sharp eye on her domestics . . . in prosecution of their various duties.

Proselyte

Ye [Scribes and Pharisees] compass sea and land to make one proselyte.

Fresh confidence the speculatist takes From every harebrained proselyte he makes.

Proselytism

They were possessed of a spirit of proselytism in the most fanatical degree.

Proselytize

One of those whom they endeavor to proselytize.

Prospect

His eye discovers unaware The goodly prospect of some foreign land.

I went to Putney . . . to take prospects in crayon.

Him God beholding from his prospect high.

And their prospect was toward the south.

Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life ?

These swell their prospectsd exalt their pride, When offers are disdain'd, and love deny'd.

Prospective

Time's long and dark prospective glass.

The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair.

Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing.

Prosper

All things concur toprosper our design.

They, in their earthly Canaan placed, Long time shall dwell and prosper.

Black cherry trees prosper even to considerable timber.

Prosperity

Now prosperity begins to mellow.

Prosperities can only be enjoyed by them who fear not at all to lose them.

Prosperous

A happy passage and a prosperous wind.

By moderation either state to bear Prosperous or adverse.

Prostitute

Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread.

No hireling she, no prostitute to praise.

Prostrate

Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire.

Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults.

Prostration

A greater prostration of reason than of body.

Protagonist

Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry.

Protect

The gods of Greece protect you!

Protection

To your protection I commend me, gods.

Let them rise up . . . and be your protection.

He . . . gave them protections under his hand.

Protector

For the world's protector shall be known.

Is it concluded he shall be protector !

Protend

With his protended lance he makes defence.

Protensive

Time is a protensive quantity.

Protest

He protest that his measures are pacific.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The conscience has power . . . to protest againts the exorbitancies of the passions.

I will protest your cowardice.

Fiercely [they] opposed My journey strange, with clamorous uproar Protesting fate supreme.

Protoplast

A species is a class of individuals, each of which is hypothetically considered to be the descendant of the same protoplast, or of the same pair of protoplasts.

Prototype

They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype.

Protraction

A protraction only of what is worst in life.

Protractive

He suffered their protractive arts.

Protrude

When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems.

The parts protrude beyond the skin.

Proud

Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek.

O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty !

And shades impervious to the proud world's glare.

Are we proud men proud of being proud ?

Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud.

Proudly

Proudly he marches on, and void of fear.

Proudness

Set aside all arrogancy and proudness.

Provand

One pease was a soldier's provant a whole day.

Prove

Thou hast proved mine heart.

They have inferred much from slender premises, and conjectured when they could not prove.

Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.

So life a winter's morn may prove.

Provedore

Busied with the duties of a provedore.

Proven

Of this which was the principal charge, and was generally believed to beproven, he was acquitted.

Provenance

Their age attested by their provenance and associations.

Provender

Good provender laboring horses would have.

Proverb

His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.

Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations.

Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool ?

I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

Proverbial

In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst.

Provide

Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind, hospitable woods provide.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Provided

Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost indifferent to their truth.

Providence

Providence for war is the best prevention of it.

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.

He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God.

It is a high point of providence in a prince to cast an eye rather upon actions than persons.

Provident

And of our good and of our dignity, How provident he is.

Province

Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide.

Other provinces of the intellectual world.

The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection.

Provincial

With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

Provision

Making provision for the relief of strangers.

And of provisions laid in large, For man and beast.

They were provisioned for a journey.

Proviso

He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception.

Provoke

Obey his voice, provoke him not.

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live.

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust?

To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.

Provokement

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.

Prow

The floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow rode tilting o'er the waves.

The prowest knight that ever field did fight.

That shall be for your hele and for your prow.

Prowess

He by his prowess conquered all France.

Prowl

He prowls each place, still in new colors decked.

Proximate

The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge].

Proximity

If he plead proximity of blood That empty title is with ease withstood.

Proxy

I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.

Every peer . . . may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.

Prude

Less modest than the speech of prudes.

Prudence

Prudence is principally in reference to actions to be done, and due means, order, seasons, and method of doing or not doing.

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.

Prudent

Moses established a grave and prudent law.

Prudential

Many stanzas, in poetic measures, contain rules relating to common prudentials as well as to religion.

Prudish

A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face.

Prune

Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed.

Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers.

Horace will our superfluous branches prune.

His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak.

Prurience

The pruriency of curious ears.

There is a prurience in the speech of some.

Prurient

The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction.

Pry

Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, To pry into the secrets of the state.

Psalm

Humus devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly.

Psaltery

Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Pseudo-romantic

The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage.

Pshaw

The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon.

Psychology

Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self.

Pubescent

That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth.

Public

To the public good Private respects must yield.

He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

The public is more disposed to censure than to praise.

Publican

As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

How like a fawning publican he looks!

Publication

The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others.

His jealousy . . . attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man.

Publicist

The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians.

Publish

Published was the bounty of her name.

The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand.

Publisher

For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense.

Pucelle

Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan.

Puck

He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall.

Pucka

It's pukka famine, by the looks of it.

Pudder

Puddering in the designs or doings of others.

Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs.

Pudding

And solid pudding against empty praise.

Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.

Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid.

Puddle

Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear spirit.

Puerile

The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.

Puff

It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.

The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase.

Then came brave Glory puffing by.

The clearing north will puff the clouds away.

I puff the prostitute away.

The sea puffed up with winds.

Puffed up with military success.

Puggry

A blue-gray felt hat with a gold puggaree.

Puisne

It were not a work for puisnes and novices.

Puisny

A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side.

Puissance

The power and puissance of the king.

Puissant

Of puissant nations which the world possessed.

And worldlings in it are less merciful, And more puissant.

Puit

The puits flowing from the fountain of life.

Puke

The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Pulchritude

Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude.

By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies.

Pule

It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule.

Puling

Leave this faint puling and lament as I do.

Pull

Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.

He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in.

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.

I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which was fastened at the top of my box.

Two pulls at once; His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.

The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.

Puller

Proud setter up and puller down of kings.

Pulp

The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will pulp a bushel in a minute.

Pulpit

I stand like a clerk in my pulpit.

I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause.

Pulpited

Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine.

Pulpiteer

We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer.

Pulsate

The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body.

Pulsation

By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.

Pulse

If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse.

The measured pulse of racing oars.

When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke.

the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second.

Pulvillio

Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios.

Pump

But pump not me for politics.

Pumpage

The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons.

Pumy

A gentle stream, whose murmuring wave did play Amongst the pumy stones.

Pun

He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.

A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay.

Punch

I . . . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short.

Punctilio

They will not part with the least punctilio in their opinions and practices.

Punctilious

Punctilious in the simple and intelligible instances of common life.

Punctual

The theory of the punctual existence of the soul.

Punctual to tediousness in all that he relates.

So much on punctual niceties they stand.

These sharp strokes [of a pendulum], with their inexorably steady intersections, so agree with our successive thoughts that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past.

Punctuative

The punctuative intonation of feeble cadence.

Punctulate

The studs have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser.

Puncture

A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp.

Pung

Sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery crate.

They did not take out the pungs to-day.

Pungent

Pungent radish biting infant's tongue.

The pungent grains of titillating dust.

With pungent pains on every side.

His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation.

Punic

Yes, yes, his faith attesting nations own; 'T is Punic all, and to a proverb known.

Punish

A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned.

Punishable

That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor.

Punishment

I never gave them condign punishment.

The rewards and punishments of another life.

Punitive

If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence.

We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.

Punitory

God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.

Punt

She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.

Puny

A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.

Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

Pupil

Too far in years to be a pupil now.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Pupilage

As sons of kings, loving in pupilage, Have turned to tyrants when they came to power.

Puppet

At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance.

Puppetry

Puppetry of the English laws of divorce.

Puppy

I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm.

Purblind

The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind.

O purblind race of miserable men.

Purchasable

Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged.

Purchase

That loves the thing he can not purchase.

Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased.

The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth.

One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.

A world who would not purchase with a bruise?

Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.

Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast.

I'll . . . get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase.

It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.

We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda.

A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye.

A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase.

Pure

The pure fetters on his shins great.

A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience.

Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.

Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.

Purfle

A goodly lady clad in scarlet red, Purfled with gold and pearl of rich assay.

Purgation

Let him put me to my purgation.

Purge

When that he hath purged you from sin.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.

Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

We 'll join our cares to purge away Our country's crimes.

The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland.

Purification

When the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished.

Purify

And fit them so Purified to receive him pure.

And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar.

Purify both yourselves and your captives.

Purism

The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter.

Purist

He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist.

Puritan

She would make a puritan of the devil.

Puritanic

Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded.

He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil.

Purl

A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl.

Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills.

thin winding breath which purled up to the sky.

Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles, As though the waves had been of silver curls.

Purlieu

Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play.

brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court.

Purloin

Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold.

when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ?

Purparty

I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds.

Purple

Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend.

Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple, and scarlet.

Hide in the dust thy purple pride.

May such purple tears be alway shed.

I view a field of blood, And Tiber rolling with a purple blood.

When morn Purples the east.

Reclining soft in blissful bowers, Purpled sweet with springing flowers.

Purport

The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell.

For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide.

They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which little purported.

Purpose

He will his firste purpos modify.

As my eternal purpose hath decreed.