brûler , consumer par le feu; dessécher.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

pence Pension boarding house Pension superannuation Pension; Rente pension Pensionsalter pensionable age Pensionskasse pension fund Pensionskasse pension pool Pensionskasse staff pension fund per Adresse care of per Anhänger by trailers per Fähre by ferries per Fernschreiben by telex per Kabel by cable per Luftpost through the post by airmail per Telegramm by telegram perfekt perfect perfekter Wettbewerb perfect competition periodisch periodical periodisch wiederkehrend recurring periodische Zahlungen; regelmäßige Zahlungen periodic payments permanente Revision continuous audit Personal personnel Personalabteilung personnel department Personalabteilung personnel division Personalabteilung staff department Personalakten personnel files Personalanforderung personnel requisition Personalangaben personal data Personalauswahl selection of personnel Personalausweis identity card Personalausweis; Kennkarte identification card Personalbüro; Personalabteilung personnel office Personalchef personnel officer Personalchef staff manager Personalchef; Leiter der Personalabteilung personnel manager Personalfluktuation labour turnover Personalführung personnel management Personalkredit personal loan Personalverwaltung personnel administration Personenbeförderung conveyance of passengers Personenschaden damage to persons persönlich personal persönlich bekannt of known identity persönlich erscheinen to appear in person persönlich haftender Gesellschafter partner liable to unlimited extent persönlich; als Einzelner individually persönliche Akte individual file persönliche Befragung face-to-face interview persönliche Daten; personenbezogene Daten personal data persönliche Einkünfte; persönliches Interview personal earnings persönliche Vereinbarung private arrangement persönliche Zeitzugabe personal allowance persönliche Zeitzugabe personal needs allowance persönlicher Assistent personal assistant persönlicher Bedarf individual demand persönlicher Besitz personal property persönlicher Freibetrag personal allowance persönlicher Vorteil; persönlicher Nutzen personal benefit persönliches Eigentum; Sachbesitz personal property persönliches Gepäck accompanied luggage persönliches Gespräch mit Voranmeldung personal call persönliches Gut; bewegliches Gut; Hausrat personal chattels Pesnionierung retirement pessimistische Zeit pessimistic time
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Here were different sights from what one saw in the forest; hedgerows, broad fields of barley corn, pasture lands rolling upward till they met the sky and all dotted over with flocks of white sheep, hayfields whence came the odor of new-mown hay that lay in smooth swathes over which skimmed the swifts in rapid flight; such they saw, and different was it, I wot, from the tangled depths of the sweet woodlands, but full as fair.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Cassius, be constant: Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes; For look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A higher or more intense state of beastliness is represented by the expressions, “podgy,” “beargered,” “blued,” “cut,” “primed,” “lumpy,” “ploughed,” “muddled,” “obfuscated,” “swipey,” “three sheets in the wind,” and “top-heavy.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

This is one of my chief reasons for detesting Salzburg—those coarse, slovenly, dissipated court musicians, with whom no honest man of good breeding could possibly live!
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“In the pit,” answered I. “In the pit,” repeated Miss Branghton; “well, really, I must own, I should never have supposed that my gown was not good enough for the pit: but come, Polly, let’s go; if Miss does not think us fine enough for her, why to be sure she may choose.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

What folk are these : The general crowd of sinners guilty of unlawful love are described as being close packed like starlings.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It is with the inhabitants of this angle, as ‘tis said of those of the Val d’Angrougne; they lived a peculiar sort of life, their fashions, clothes, and manners distinct from other people; ruled and governed by certain particular laws and usages, received from father to son, to which they submitted, without other constraint than the reverence to custom.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"Not I, indeed, Hans Brinker," cried Peter, looking [Pg 313] up, "though I thank you warmly.
— from Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

But she could not realize that he, who so worshiped beauty, could possibly love her.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

But common people like me tells lies just as a duck swims.
— from An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw

The venial sinner here, he that intreagues With Egypt, Babylon ; Cabals, Plots, Leagues With Israels Foes her Altars to destroy, A Hair untouch’d, shall Health, Peace, Crowns enjoy.
— from Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Elkanah Settle

It rather took us by surprise—the light quickly becoming curiously pale like moonlight and the air unusually chilly.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

More specifically, they argue that by conditioning public libraries' receipt of federal funds on the use of software filters, CIPA will induce public libraries to violate the First Amendment rights of Internet content-providers to disseminate constitutionally protected speech to library patrons via the Internet, and the correlative First Amendment rights of public library patrons to receive constitutionally protected speech on the Internet.
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Why, not another boy could play Like him, or run, or jump so high, Or swim, no matter how he'd try; An' I can't get it through my head At all, at all, that Jack is dead.
— from The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett