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 PEA, SWEET PEAR

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a'thihg as a nation being so right that.it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Woodrqw Wilson—Address in. Contention Hall. Philadelphia, May 10, 1915. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Pitt,. Sumner) Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace. Young—Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 1,058. • PEA, SWEET Lathyrus Odoratus The pea is but a wanton witch In too much haste to wed, And clasps her rings on every hand. Hood—Flowers. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Keats—1 Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little HM. PEACOCK For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them, Who were accustomed, as a sort of god, To see the sultan, rich in many a gem, Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem.) With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt How power could condescend to do without. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. | place = Canto VII. St. 74. | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Gay—Rural Sports.. Canto I. L. 177. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. Leland—The Peacock. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = "Fly pride," says the peacock. Comedy of Errors. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 81. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock,— a stride and a stand. Troilus and Cressida. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 251. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And there they placed a peacock in his pride, Before the damsel | author = Tennyson | work = Gareth and Lynette. PEACH A little peach in an orchard grew,— A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew It grew. Eugene Field—The Little Peach. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first. ruin:—Natural History. Bk. XV. Ch. 13. Holland's trans. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The ripest peach is highest on the tree. James Whttcomb Riley—The Ripest Peach. (See {{sc|Carman}} under {{sc|Apples}})

PEAR "Now, Sire,"quod she, "for aught that may bityde, I moste haue of the peres that I see, Or I moote dye, so soore longeth me To eten of the smalle peres grene." Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Merchantes Tale. L. 14,669. ' 21 The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from leaves And blossom}}, under {{sc|heavens of happy blue. Jean Ingelow—Songs with Preludes. Wedlock. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 591 }}