In our opinion, unfounded of course by positive proof, the Apicius book is somewhat of a gastronomic bible, consisting of ten different books by several authors, originating in Greece and taken over by the Romans along with the rest of Greek culture as spoils of war.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

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

All these had, of course, been previously patients of Doctor Herzenstube, and the celebrated doctor had criticized his treatment with extreme harshness.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Bi-slabered , pp. beslobbered, P. Bi-smeoruwed , pp. besmeared, S. Bi-smer , sb. scorn, reproach, P; bisemar , S; busemare , S2; bismare , HD; bissemare , CM; bismeres , pl. , PP; bismares , PP.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

There would be then no such vigorous making of parties, and buying of votes, in the conclave upon a vacancy of that see: and those who by bribery, or other indirect courses, should get themselves elected, would never secure their sitting firm in the chair by pistol, poison, force, and violence.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

And we have written a playful epigram on him also, which runs thus:— I praise Cleanthes, but praise Pluto more; Who could not bear to see him grown so old, So gave him rest at last among the dead, Who’d drawn such loads of water while alive.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

In this position Marshall had a simple win by R - B 7 ch, but played P - B 6, and thereby gave Black a chance to draw.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Be sure they do not hinder, for they cannot be passively present in any discourse.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Sleep had long weighed heavily on her eyes, but now the fresh sea-breeze revived her, and she would have quitted the scene with regret, had not the Count been present, performing the duty, which he had imposed upon himself, of escorting them home.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

It was sometimes used in conjunction with painting, the faces of a family group being done in water color upon cardboard by professional painters who were members of the art guild, who wandered from one social circle to another, supplying the wants of embroideresses ambitious of distinction in their accomplishments.
— from The Development of Embroidery in America by Candace Wheeler

[307] In James Melville's Diary (p. 383) an act is mentioned with the date of January 1597, 'discharging the ministers stipends that wald not subscryve a Band acknawlaging the king to be only judge in matters of treassone or uther civill and criminall causses committed be preatching, prayer or what way so ever—Thair was keipit a frequent convention of esteates wharin war maid manie strange and seveire actes.'
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

(Compound; Linimentum camphoræ compositum —B. P., Ph. L. & D.)— a. (B. P.) Camphor, 5; English oil of lavender, 1 ⁄ 4 ; strong solution of ammonia, 10; rectified spirit, 20.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

In prohibiting the use of county jails and buildings as barracoons and slave-pens,—in prohibiting all public officers, holding the commission of the State, in any capacity, whether as Chief Justice or Justice of the Peace, whether as Governor or Constable, from any service as slave-hunter,—in prohibiting the volunteer militia of the State, in its organized form, from any such service, the States simply exercise a power under the Constitution, recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States even while upholding Slavery in the fatal Prigg case, by POSITIVE PROHIBITION , to withdraw its own officers from this offensive business.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

His was a large, well-proportioned frame that suggested, not corpulence but physical power.
— from The Rest Hollow Mystery by Rebecca N. (Rebecca Newman) Porter

As secrets are not to be made cheap by promiscuous publication, he calls a select audience about him, and gratifies their vanity with an appearance of trust by communicating his intelligence in a low voice.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

The serious Flamin was compelled by the bustling Sebastian to take part in these puppet-plays, [70] and between them, in this preparatory chase of pleasure, the tormented visage of Eymann had to labor, to which Victor delivered the most essential exhortations: "Master Godfather, we cannot be earnest and busy enough,–this festival may yet be talked of in places where it will have influence; but a middle course between princely pomp and Belgian stinginess will, I think, throw upon us the most favorable light."
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

In after years John proved his grateful remembrance of the kindness of the Count and his son by naming one of the headlands of Chesapeake Bay, Point Ployer.
— from Captain John Smith by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay