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- abbreviation Peter
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- proper noun biblical Abbreviation of
Peter .
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Examples
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Her name was Duchess, but he often called her Pet.
Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1849
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It was, in fact, her unchanging pertness and apparent low need of maintenance that had earned her the nickname "Pet."
Fault Line Andrews, Sarah 2002
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"And, if you hadn't got there as soon as you did, she'd have fallen?" asked the "Pet."
The Twins of Table Mountain Bret Harte 1869
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The men at all the stables make a fuss with her, and call her "Pet."
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Here, boy! "he said, turning to one of the small darkies standing about to snuff the candles," tell Caesar to bring me 'Pet.'"-- for it was thus he called his violin, which had been saved by Caesar's devotion and bravery when all else at Elk Hill was destroyed by order of my Lord
Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe
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Here arises the question whether the expression of St. Peter (II, Pet., iii, 16) tas loipas graphas refers to a collection of St. Paul's Epistles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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