Famous quotes with Pl.

• But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the pl. to the side he goes of.

  William Cavendish
• European indices are set to open significantly lower as tumbling commodities continue to put pressure on global markets,” Farbod Mimeh trader at London Capital Group, said in a note http://www.economicnewsdaily.com/under-the-radar-european-stocks-to-watch-manchester-united-pl.-manu-anheuser-busch-inbev-sanv-bud-novartis-ag-nvs/9223940/

  Farbod Mimeh
• Arts may pl. fantastic anatomy but nature is always herself in her wildest moods of extravagence.

  John Clare
• For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife pl. her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.

  Thomas Gray
• Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practises the great art of adapting means to ends. Nothing is now done directly, or by hand; all is by rule and calculated contrivance. For the simpl.st operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are all discredited, and thrown aside. On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that pl. it faster.

  Thomas Carlyle

When it comes to synonyms for the word "dicty-", several options can be considered. One such synonym is "pretentious," which refers to someone who acts in a haughty manner, attempt...