I have not, nor can get Mr. Evelyn’s translating and sending me as a present Must be forced to confess it to my wife, which troubles me My wife after her bathing lying alone in another bed My old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and merry with her Never could man say worse himself nor have worse said No man is wise at all times Not had the confidence to take his lady once by the hand Not liking that it should lie long undone, for fear of death Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad Offer to give me a piece to receive of me 20 One whom a great belly becomes as well as ever I saw any Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped Out of my purse I dare not for fear of a precedent Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665)
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A pale, pale corpse she floated by, Dead cold, between the houses high, Dead into towered Camelot.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

If there are passages, people can come up them; they can come up when one is asleep.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

pacis, quae sceleri et parricidio suo nomina indidit; neque aliter rempublicam et belli finem ait, nisi maneat expulsa agris plebes, praeda civilis acerbissima, ius iudiciumque omnium rerum penes se, quod populi Romani fuit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

At the office mighty busy, and brought myself into a pretty plausible condition before Sir W. Coventry come, and did give him a pretty tolerable account of every thing and went with him into the Victualling office, where we sat and examined his businesses and state of the victualling of the fleete, which made me in my heart blushe that I could say no more to it than I did or could.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Pliny mentions a private person, C. Caecilius Claudius Isidorus, who ordered the sum of about 10,000 l. sterling to be expended in his funeral: and in another place he says, "Intelligent persons asserted that Arabia did not produce such a quantity of spices in a year as Nero burned at the obsequies of his Poppaea."—xxxiii. 10, and xii.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Preisliste price list Preisnachlass discount Preisniveau level of prices Preisniveau; Preislage level of prices Preispolitik price policy Preisrivalität price competitition Preisrückgang fall in prices Preisschild price label Preisschwankung fluctuation of price Preisschwankung price fluctuation Preisschwankungen price fluctuations Preissenkung cut in prices Preissenkung price cut Preisspanne price area Preisspanne range of prices Preisspirale inflationary spiral Preisspirale price spiral Preisstabilität price stability Preisstaffel scale of prices Preissteigerungsrate rate of price increase Preisstop price freeze Preisstruktur price structure Preissturz slump Preissystem price system Preistendenz price trend Preisüberwachung price administration Preisüberwachung price control Preisunterbieter undercutter Preisunterbietung cutting of prices Preisvereinbarung sales convention Preisvereinbarung; Preisabsprache price agreement Preisvereinbarung; Preisabsprache price arrangement Preisvergleich price comparison Preisverhältnis price relationship Preisverzerrung preis distortion Preisvorteil price advantage preiswert good value preiswert worth the money Preiszusammenbruch price collapse Presse; pressen; drängen press Pressebüro press agency Pressefoto press photo Pressefotograf press photographer Pressefreiheit freedom of press Pressekampagne press campaign Pressekonferenz press conference Pressenotiz news release Pressetribüne press gallery Presseverlautbarung press release Prestigeware prestige goods Prestigewerbung goodwill advertising Prestigewerbung prestige advertising prima super Primärdaten primary data primäre Erhebung field research Primärindustrie primary industries Primawechsel first bill of exchange Primawechsel first of exchange Primawechsel gilt-edged bill Prinzip principle Prinzip; Richtlinie principle Priorität priority Priorität erhalten obtain priority Prioritätsgläubiger privileged creditor privat private privat finanziert privately financed
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

‘Now, Ellen,’ she said, when my task was finished and she was seated in an easy-chair on the hearth, with a cup of tea before her, ‘you sit down opposite me, and put poor Catherine’s baby away: I don’t like to see it!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

On the contrary, it seems impossible, that what has hitherto escaped so many wise and profound philosophers can be very obvious and easy.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Now that we perceive how great she was, now that her name fills the whole world, it seems strange that what I am saying is true; for it is as if a perishable paltry candle should speak of the eternal sun riding in the heavens and say, “He was gossip and housemate to me when we were candles together.”
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

The illicit prostitutes, who well know how to escape the hands of the police, have spread their nets of demoralization over the whole city; and against them, the old prostitution houses, which were under a purifying police control in sanitary and general matters, afforded safety and protection.”
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

"Believe me you have no reason to be angry, papa," pleaded Clarissa; "nothing could have been farther from my thoughts than the idea of meeting Mr. Fairfax to-night."
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Jeannin, Villeroy, and their master; Isaac le Maire and Peter Plancius, could have told the reason why if they had chosen.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608a by John Lothrop Motley

Yes, it’s a perfect sinecure, which with its stipend of a thousand francs enables him to live there like a peasant philosopher, cultivating the somewhat extensive garden whose big walls you see yonder.”
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

The gunboats Peosta, Captain Smith, and Paw Paw, Captain O'Neal, were present and rendered valuable aid in shelling the city and operating on the flank of the enemy as they surrounded the fort.
— from Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners. by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War

Sri Lanka: machinery and equipment, textiles, petroleum, foodstuffs Sudan: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles Suriname: capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods Swaziland: motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals Sweden: machinery, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron and steel; foodstuffs, clothing Switzerland: machinery, chemicals, vehicles, metals; agricultural products, textiles Syria: machinery and equipment 23%, foodstuffs/animals 20%, metal and metal products 15%, textiles 10%, chemicals 10% (1998 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"His atacem, panacem, phylacem, coracem que facemque."
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

Machine gun and dreadnought will soon be as obsolete in the presence of arbitration and the court at the Hague as an ox-cart is obsolete in the presence of a Pullman palace car.
— from The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Newell Dwight Hillis