Peri

Three late sources credit Xenophanes with a didactic poem under the title Peri Phuseôs (“On Nature”) but not every allusion to an earlier author's views "on nature" represented a reference to a single work on that subject.

Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008

W hich is a long way of saying that I begin Peri and Moses's essay anthology Because I Said So in a foul mood.

Kiddie Class Struggle 2005

Peri is from the Shelf and, as a member of a House, is served by people from the Attic, a small town up the side of a cliff where time moves about ten times faster.

REVIEW: Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 edited by Haber/Strahan 2005

W hich is a long way of saying that I begin Peri and Moses's essay anthology Because I Said So in a foul mood.

Kiddie Class Struggle 2005

Miriam to go on the cars this evening, and convince her that it had not occurred, court records and licenses and minister to the contrary notwithstanding; so my duck, my angel, she whom I call my Peri with the singed wings (children who play in the fire must expect to be burned), set off on her pious errand, without the protecting arm of her bridegroom.

A Confederate girl's diary, 1913

Miriam to go on the cars this evening, and convince her that it had not occurred, court records and licenses and minister to the contrary notwithstanding; so my duck, my angel, she whom I call my Peri with the singed wings (children who play in the fire must expect to be burned), set off on her pious errand, without the protecting arm of her bridegroom.

A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson 1875

The main character, Peri, is actually very likable, a bit of a wild child but with more maturity to her voice then Logston’s other young characters, Ria and Jael.

Ann Logston Marathon « A Working Title 2007

Peri, which is the starting-point of the new music.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

It is the opinion of the learned that the Persian word Peri, expressing an unearthly being, of a species very similar, will afford the best derivation, if we suppose it to have reached Europe through the medium of the Arabians, in whose alphabet the letter P does not exist, so that they pronounce the word Feri instead of Peri.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

It is the opinion of the learned that the Persian word Peri, expressing an unearthly being, of a species very similar, will afford the best derivation, if we suppose it to have reached Europe through the medium of the Arabians, in whose alphabet the letter P does not exist, so that they pronounce the word Feri instead of Peri.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801