Word: petrus
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...especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another quarter century?until...
...York of heart disease. A directors' meeting of the National Park Bank was assembling. As Mr. Fish stepped across the threshold of the board room, he fell dead. So terminated the career of one of the country's great financial leaders and railroad presidents. A descendant of Petrus Stuyvesant, a grandson of Colonel Nicholas Fish of Revolutionary War fame, the youngest son of Hamilton Fish (Secretary of State under President Grant)-Stuyvesant Fish came from the stock of pioneers and joined the generation of great railroaders. Born in New York in 1851, and graduated from Columbia 20 years...
...Northern drawings are not so numerous. There is a brush drawing on vellum by Petrus Christus, and eight drawings by Durer, which alone would make the collection noteworthy. A few other drawings of the Flemish and German schools, including several drawings from engravings, make up the collection...
...play this afternoon: C. S. Cutting '12 vs. W. B. Harris '13, C. N. Browne '12 vs. P. K. Honston '12, A. M. Hyde '12 vs. G. Sturgis '13, H. F. Isham '12 vs. G. W. Wightman '12, H. P. Faxon '12 vs. R. M. Marble '12, J. R. Petrus '13 vs. Q. A. S. McKean '13, X. E. Paine, Jr., '13 vs. T. B. Lewis '13, C. M. Amory '12 vs. A. J. Lowrey '13, H. A. Johnson '11 vs. J. Munroe '13, H. S. McKee '13 vs. J. R. Pratt '12, F. C. Gray...
...trees with piles of fruit, the outspread shade, and water outpoured" could not comfort him in his really very natural shyness. A happy thought occurred to me. In early and credulous youth I had studied the works of Cornelous youth I had studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Petrus de Abano. Their lessons, which had not hitherto been of much practical service, recurred to my mind. Stooping down I drew a circle round myself and my old friend in the fragrant white blossoms which were strewn so thick that they quite hid the grass. This circle I fortified...