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Petre   Listen
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Petre  n.  See Saltpeter.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Petre" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Master Petre will be here to-night, as my lord Cromwell's representative, and will sit in the chapter-house to-morrow to ...
— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson

... of cold water, put a quart of rock salt, an ounce of salt-petre, quarter of a pound of brown sugar—(some people use molasses, but it is not as good)—no boiling is necessary. Put the beef in the brine. As long as any salt remains at the bottom of the cask it is strong enough. Whenever any ...
— The American Housewife • Anonymous

... state, had been appointed vicar-general, or vicegerent, a new office, by which the king's supremacy, or the absolute uncontrollable power assumed over the church, was delegated to him. He employed Layton, London, Price, Gage, Petre, Bellasis, and others, as commissioners who carried on every where a rigorous inquiry with regard to the conduct and deportment of all the friars. During times of faction, especially of the religious kind, no equity is to be expected from adversaries; and as it was known, that the king's ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - From Henry VII. to Mary • David Hume

... searched the cabin, brought all the papers he could find to Mr Collinson. By this he discovered that the brig was the Beatrix, bound from New Orleans to Point a Petre in Dominique. ...
— Sunshine Bill • W H G Kingston



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