"Pais" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... per pais" that is, "trial by the country." And now, in every criminal trial, the jury are told that the accused "has, for trial, put himself upon the country; which country you (the jury) ...
— An Essay on the Trial By Jury • Lysander Spooner
... V.S. le va' ya muy bien en este Reyno, y espero que me avifara el tiempo que se propusiere detener en Barcelona, y tambien quando se verificara su yda a Valencia: cuyo Pais se ha creydo el mas propio para su residencia estable, por la suavidad del clima y demas circunstantias.—V.S. me hallara pronto a complacerle y sevirle en lo que se le ofrezca: que es quendo en el dia puedo decirle, referiendome ademas a mis cartas precedentes communicadas por medio de ... Dios ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... comes to seik good peirs to their masters, unless they be all the better versed, will not readily buy it, whence it cheats them. They distinguise their peires into poirs de l'este de l'automne, and de l'yver, amongs whilk theirs some thats not eatable til pais or pasque. ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder |
