The two made a pretty picture, reflected in the long mirror; the tall, fair Margaret, still in her soft white silk frock, with her arm round the smaller figure of the dark girl whose curly masses of hair half covered her pink cotton dressing-gown, and whose brown face was upturned so lovingly to her friend's.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Zunahme sudden increase plötzlicher Anstieg abrupt rise plötzlicher Wechsel sudden change plötzliches Nachlassen sudden fall plündern; Plünderung plunder Plünderung pilferage Plünderung pillaging plus plus Police der Ausbildungsversicherung educational policy Police für den Erlebensfall endowment policy Police mit Gewinnbeteiligung participating policy Politik der Kreditbeschränkung restrictive credit policy Politik der offenen Tür open-door policy Politik des billigen Geldes easy money policy Politik; Versicherungspolice policy politisch political politische Einstellung political attitude politische Ökonomie; Nationalökonomie political economy politisches Zentrum political centre Polizeibeamter police officer Polizeirevier police station populär popular populär machen popularize Portfolio portfolio Porto postage Porto wird vom Empfänger erhoben freepost Portokasse petty cash Portokassenbuch petty cash book Portokassenkonto petty cash account Portosatz postage rate Positionierbewegung positioning movement positiv positive positive Volkswirtschaftslehre positive economics Post; mit der Post senden mail Postabfertigungsraum; Poststelle mail room Postamt post office Postanweisung money order Postanweisung postal order Postausgangsbuch outgoing post book Postausgangskorb out-tray Postbeamter post office clerk Postbehörde postal authority Postbehörden postal authorities
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Just as a photographic plate receives a different impression of a cluster of stars when a telescope is part of the intervening medium, so a brain receives a different impression when an eye and an optic nerve are part of the intervening medium.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

And when he was born, I wrapped him in cambric and lace, and put pink ribbons on him, strewed him with flowers, got him ready, said prayers over him.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He who is rich, will give of his riches: a proud people requires a God, unto whom it can sacrifice things.... Religion, when restricted to these principles, is a form of gratitude.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus in the Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten , [391] he tells us that “as Reason is required to deduce actions from laws, Will is nothing but pure practical reason”; and, similarly, in the Kritik der praktischen Vernunft , he speaks of the “objective reality of a pure Will or, which is the same thing , a pure practical reason.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I have this same very day, which is the last both of May and of me, with a greal deal of labour, toil, and difficulty, chased out of my house a rabble of filthy, unclean, and plaguily pestilentious rake-hells, black beasts, dusk, dun, white, ash-coloured, speckled, and a foul vermin of other hues, whose obtrusive importunity would not permit me to die at my own ease; for by fraudulent and deceitful pricklings, ravenous, harpy-like graspings, waspish stingings, and such-like unwelcome approaches, forged in the shop of I know not what kind of insatiabilities, they went about to withdraw and call me out of those sweet thoughts wherein I was already beginning to repose myself and acquiesce in the contemplation and vision, yea, almost in the very touch and taste of the happiness and felicity which the good God hath prepared for his faithful saints and elect in the other life and state of immortality.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Practical rules of action (praeceptivae) Practical rules of omission (prohibitivae) Practical rules of exceptions (exceptivae) {BOOK_1|CHAPTER_2 ^paragraph 30} III.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Si nihil proficiet, accusabit, minabitur etiam, ad extremum, si ad perniciem patriae res spectabit, patriae salutem anteponet saluti patris."
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The orange and purple produce russet; the orange and green form citrine; the green and purple, olive.
— from Elementary Color by Milton Bradley

Whether it was the polite attention bestowed upon me by his reverence, or that the magical word 'Captain,' so generic for all things military in Ireland, had its effect, or that any purely personal reasons were the cause, I cannot aver; but, certainly, Mrs. Carney's manner became wonderfully softened.
— from Jack Hinton: The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

A pardoned prisoner recondemned to death,—it was easily compared to the life to which he must voluntarily resign himself; that endless existence of religious slavery from whose soul-crushing monotony there was no escape, but death.
— from The Hill of Venus by Nathan Gallizier

Why not assemble the tribes, go up at once to Antananarivo, take it, cut off the Queen’s head, and put Prince Rakota on the throne?” “Ay, why not?” demanded several of the more fiery young men.
— from The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The fields, of which it is scarce possible to obtain a glimpse from these "covered ways," are paltry paddocks, rarely exceeding two or three acres.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various

THE FAMINE IN EGYPT: EBU HESHAM’S ACCOUNT OF THE TOMB OF PRINCESS TAJAH: BENVENUTO CELLINI AND THE PEARL NECKLACE OF THE DUCHESS OF FLORENCE: THE PEARL ROPE OF MARIE ALEXANDROVNA: PINK PEARLS: RED PEARLS:
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

It is also customary to capitalize all personal pronouns referring to God or Christ.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

Oh, I've been all wrong, but if I could only stay—" As if in answer to his unspoken thought, the big Freshman beheld marching toward him Theophilus Opperdyke, his spectacles off, and his face aglow, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., evidently in the throes of emotional insanity; a Senior whom he knew as Parson Palmetter; Registrar Worthington, and Doctor Alford, the kindly, beloved Prexy of old Bannister.
— from T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice

To my surprise the animal went within a hair's breadth of a plow, passing right on, seemingly not either to care for red paint or iron construction.
— from Fox Trapping: A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot A Valuable Book for Trappers by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding