En effet, le livre électronique stricto sensu est aujourd'hui concurrencé par des appareils que les gens achètent déjà massivement pour d'autres raisons que la lecture, mais qui peuvent servir de lecteurs électroniques grâce à des logiciels dédiés à la lecture: les assistants personnels (PDA) et les ordinateurs ultra-portables.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

A long and painful pause ensues.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Petulant madness contends with itself Philopoemen: paying the penalty of my ugliness Philosophy Philosophy has discourses proper for childhood Philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die Philosophy is that which instructs us to live Philosophy looked upon as a vain and fantastic name Phusicians cure by by misery and pain Physic Physician worse physicked Physician: pass through all the diseases he pretends to cure Physician’s “help”, which is very often an obstacle Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick Physicians fear men should at any time escape their authority Physicians were the only men who might lie at pleasure Physicians: earth covers their failures Pinch the secret strings of our imperfections Pitiful ways and expedients to the jugglers of the law Pity is reputed a vice amongst the Stoics Plato angry at excess of sleeping than at excess of drinking Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians Plato says, that the gods made man for their sport Plato will have nobody marry before thirty Plato: lawyers and physicians are bad institutions of a country Plays of children are not performed in play Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit Pleasure of telling (a pleasure little inferior to that of doing Possession begets a contempt of what it holds and rules Practical Jokes:
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But, on the contrary, everyone guards and defends his life, like a precious pledge entrusted to him under heavy responsibility, under infinite cares and abundant misery, even under which life is tolerable.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

programme Programm (US) program Programmablaufdiagramm program flow chart Programmierer programmer programmierte Unterweisung programmed instruction Programmmanagement program management progressiv progressive progressive Kosten progressive costs progressiver Leistungslohn accelerating incentive progressiver Leistungslohn steepening incentive Projekt project Projektanalyse project analysis Projektmanagement project management Prokura power of procuration Prokura procuration Proletariat proletariat Prolongation eines Wechsels extension of a B/L Prolongationsgebühr backwardation Prolongationsgebühr; Aufgeld contango Prolongationskosten contango money prompt; sofort; umgehend prompt prompte Anlieferung; prompte Lieferung prompt delivery Prospekt prospectus Protektionismus protectionism Protest protest Protest erheben enter a protest Protest erheben lodge a protest Protest erheben raise a protest Protest mangels Zahlung protest for non-payment Protest wegen Nicht-Annahme protest for non-acceptance Protestaufnahme act of protest Protestgebühren protest charges protestieren; Protest protest protestierter Wechsel protested bill Protestkosten protest charges Protesturkunde deed of protest Protesturkunde notarial protest certificate Protesturkunde note of protest Protokoll minutes
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The follies and disloyalty committed in his youth were to be expiated by a long and painful penance, ere he could be restored to the full enjoyment of the confidence of his ancient people; and without confidence there could be no authority in an Indian tribe.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

No sound louder than a stifled sob had been heard among them, nor had even a limb been moved throughout that long and painful period, except to perform the simple and touching offerings that were made, from time to time, in commemoration of the dead.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The conductor, who had suffered long and patiently, promptly ejected the youthful devotee, and in the process of the scientist's expulsion added a resounding box upon the ear.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

This is the doctrine of the true church on the subject of opium: of which church I acknowledge myself to be the only member—the alpha and the omega: but then it is to be recollected that I speak from the ground of a large and profound personal experience: whereas most of the unscientific {13} authors who have at all treated of opium, and even of those who have written expressly on the materia medica, make it evident, from the horror they express of it, that their experimental knowledge of its action is none at all.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

The follies and disloyalty committed in his youth were to be expiated by a long and painful penance, ere he could be restored to the full enjoyment of the confidence of his ancient people; and without confidence, there could be no authority in an Indian tribe.
— from The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It was a simple matter, in our informal way of life, to call back from the piazza through the hall to the figure setting the table in the dining room: "Lay another plate, please, Ellen.
— from Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates

In dress and finery she spent like a prodigal, played every night, and lost large sums, oftentimes staking her jewels and her various ornaments.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 02 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

y la obligaçion en que le auian puesto para en todo tiempo los faborecer y socorrer y acabada tomo juramento sobre los euãgelios en un libro misala todos generalmente asi a capitanes como a soldados aunque por orden que siguirian a su general y harian en aquella jornada y obedecerian todo aquello
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

ATLANTIC REPORTER, SECOND SERIES. BLASHFIELD'S CYCLOPEDIA OF AUTOMOBILE LAW AND PRACTICE, PERMANENT EDITION.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Les Acariens parasites, Paris, Encycl.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

If cut into lengths and properly poised, excellent rock harmoniums could be made of it.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

He realized he had a lot to learn about people, particularly Earther people.
— from Starman's Quest by Robert Silverberg