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delapsa est et praeter
Nonius (Hispania, c. 31, p. 106-110) enumerates the ancient structures, but concludes with a sigh: Urbs haec olim nobilissima ad magnam incolarum infrequentiam delapsa est, et praeter priscae claritatis ruinas nihil ostendit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

den Erlebensfall endowment policy
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

Dieu et en peu
Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu, et en peu de temps.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

del espejo el padre
Como no hablaba nunca del espejo, el padre le olvidó del todo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Diciendo esto el Penitenciario
15 Diciendo esto, el Penitenciario temblaba y sudaba.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

domin e e pīl
domin e -e pīl um -um Plural Nom.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

deux essais et plasticienne
[FR] [FR] Silvaine Arabo (Poitou-Charentes) #Poète et plasticienne, créatrice de la cyber-revue Poésie d'hier et d'aujourd'hui Silvaine Arabo est écrivain (à ce jour quinze recueils de poèmes publiés ainsi que plusieurs recueils d'aphorismes et deux essais) et plasticienne (elle expose à Paris et en province).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

desiliunt ex equis provolant
Dicto paruere; desiliunt ex equis, provolant in primum , et pro antesignanis 15 parmas obiciunt.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

data est ex parte
Multa data est ex parte mihi, magnoque favore 16 Victores ludos instituere novos.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

des escuz et portendu
[58] lxvi : furent drecies les banieres et li gonfanon es chastiaus des nés, et les houces ostées des escuz et portendu li bort des nés .
— from British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device by William Gordon Perrin

de excelso et pleno
The opening words of Scipio's narrative, Cum in Africam venissem, Mania Manilio consuli ad quartam legionem tribunus , come on the ear like the throb of a great organ; and here and there through the piece come astonishing phrases of the same organ-music: Ostendebat autem Karthaginem de excelso et pleno stellarum inlustri et claro quodam loco….
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

de Eucharistia et Pœnitentia
R. Beer, 1891; "De Eucharistia tractatus maior; accedit tractatus de Eucharistia et Pœnitentia," ed.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

daily environment each pointed
My education and my daily environment each pointed to that career, and even if I had shown a remarkable aptitude for any other calling, which I did not, I doubt if I would have pursued it.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis

dorsal extremity each posterior
Near its dorsal extremity each posterior root dilates, and from the dilated portion is given off on each side the commissure uniting it with the adjoining roots.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Daniel Eyssette en personne
Il s’étonne d’abord un peu du chaleureux accueil que sa femme est en train de faire à ce jeune inconnu; mais quand on lui apprend que ce jeune inconnu est M. Daniel Eyssette en personne, Jean Peyrol devient rouge de plaisir et s’empresse
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet


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