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A passage in text that is about a different subject from the preceding text, marked by commencing on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented.
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Poetry examples for “par”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →writ by Bandello; a translation of which into French, the reader may find
in Les Histoires Tragiques, par M. Belleforest, torn. 1. hist. 12. The same
story is related by M. Goulart; see Les Histoires admirables de nitre terns,
Read full poem →For literal errors committed by the prifiter, it is the fashion to ask par-
don, and as much in fashion to take no notice of him that asks it; but
Read full poem →rally admired, we shall endeavour to prove that his second-rate and our
author's Jirst-rate beauties are so near upon a par that they are scarce dis-
tinguishable. A preface allows not room for sufficient proofs of this, but
Read full poem →wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever
paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from par-
ticular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they repre-*
Read full poem →ces, gracias 4 las miradas que dejan esca -
par los jugadores satisfechos, los triunfos
Read full poem →One of these fish, par excellence the beau —
God help me! — it has been my lot to know,
Read full poem →of stories. Many of the stories are very old. Some of
them must have been handed down from Indian par-
ents to Indian children for hundreds, and perhaps
Read full poem →Quelque contemporaine,
Prendre l'air, par hygiène ...
Read full poem →--Non, petit, il faut commencer
Par être grand--simple ficelle--
Pauvre: remuer l'or à la pelle;
