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playground gymnasium palestra ring
— N. arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards &c. (playhouse) 599; amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso[Sp], turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard[obs3], tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars[obs3]; campus
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

public good Private respects
; And combated in silence all these reasons With hard contest: at length that grounded maxim So rife and celebrated in the mouths Of wisest men; that to the public good Private respects must yield; with grave authority' Took full possession of me and prevail'd; Vertue, as I thought, truth, duty so enjoyning.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

poor gal Poor Ro
Poor Ro-sy, poor gal; Poor Ro-sy, poor gal; Ro-sy break my poor heart, Heav'n shall-a-be my home.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

pleasant grass plateau running
It is a pretty little spot there: a pleasant grass plateau, running along by the water’s edge, and overhung by willows.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Padang Green Padang Roasted
[Pg 161] Table II—Coffee Analyses Santos Green Santos Roasted Padang Green Padang Roasted Guatemala Green Guatemala Roasted Mocha Green Mocha Roasted Moisture April 20th 8.75 3.75 8.78 2.72 9.59 3.40 9.06 3.36 Moisture September 20th
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

peculiarly Gogolian peculiarly Russian
It is this that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Philipps Grismond Phillips Robt
See Philipps Grismond Phillips, Robt., 153 Philpot, Edw., 228 Phipps, Paul, 55 Picard, John Kirkby, 50 305 Picton, Sir Thos., 2 , 14 Pidgeon, Joseph T., 179 Pigot, Brooke, 175 Pilcher, Daniel, 90 Pilkington, Abraham, 242 ——, Wm., 239 Pillon, John, 239 Pittman, Wm., 242 Polhill, Wm., 86 Ponsonby, Hon. F.C., 75 ——, Sir Wm., 4 , 19 Poole, Jas., 58 , 252 ——, Wm. H., 225 Portarlington, John, Earl of, 93 Potenger, Herbert, 237 Potts, Jos. Hen., 239 Powell, Harry Wayland, 98 ——, Jas., 233 Power, David, 161 Powling, John, 189 Pratt, John, 140 Preedy, Robt., 242 Prendergast, Edmund, 141 ——, Jeffrey, 113 Price, B., 2 , 15 Pringle, Geo., 223 ——, John Wm., 229
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Plan gleitender Plan rolling
im Ruhestand retired population Bevölkerung ohne festen Wohnsitz migrant population Bevölkerungsbewegung population movement Bevölkerungsdichte density of population Bevölkerungsgruppe population group Bevölkerungspyramide population pyramid Bevölkerungsschicht population stratum Bevölkerungsschicht; Bevölkerungsklasse class of population Bevölkerungsstatistik demography Bevölkerungsstatistik vital statistics Bevölkerungstheorie von Malthus Malthusian theory of population Bevölkerungsüberschuss surplus population Bevölkerungsverschiebung movement of population Bevölkerungsverteilung distribution of population Bevölkerungswachstum growth of population Bevölkerungszunahme growth of population bevollmächtigen authorize bevollmächtigen empower bevollmächtigt authorized Bevollmächtigter duly authorized person Bevollmächtigter für ein Rechtsgeschäft special agent Bevollmächtigung authorization bevorrechtigte Forderung preferential claim bevorrechtigte Forderung privileged claim bevorrechtigte Schuld preferential debt bevorrechtigter Gläubiger creditor by priority bevorrechtigter Gläubiger preferential creditor Bevorschussung von Versanddokumenten advance against shipping documents bevorzugen prefer bevorzugt preferential bevorzugt; bevorrechtigt preferred bevorzugte Platzierung; bevorzugte Stelle preferred position bevorzugte Stellung; bevorzugte Platzierung preferred position Bevorzugung durch den Verbraucher consumer preference Bevorzugung; Vorrang; Vorzugsrecht preference bewachter Bahnübergang manned crossing bewaffnete Auseinandersetzung armed conflict bewahren; konservieren preserve bewährte Wertpapiere seasoned securities bewegen move bewegende Kraft; Motivation motive force beweglich flexible beweglich mobile beweglich; fahrbar mobile bewegliche Güter movables bewegliche Sachen chattels beweglicher Plan; gleitender Plan rolling schedule bewegliches Gut chattel bewegliches Gut movable goos Beweglichkeit mobility Beweglichkeit mobility of labour Beweglichkeit der Arbeitskräfte mobility of labour Beweglichkeit des Kapitals mobility of capital Bewegung motion Bewegung movement Bewegung nach oben upward movement Bewegung nach unten downward movement Bewegung; Antrag bei einer Sitzung motion Bewegungselement element of motion Bewegungselement motion element Bewegungsform; Form des Bewegungsverlaufs movement pattern Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit motion speed Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit speed of motions Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit speed of movements Bewegungskategorie class of movement
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Productions Grandandy Productions Richelieu
Antelo Productions, Grandandy Productions & Richelieu Productions. Approx.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

pretty good practice repeated
‘In a pretty good practice,’ repeated the doctor, putting another glass of wine to his lips.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

P Graves Peter Ramus
F. P. Graves: Peter Ramus and the Educational Reformation of the 16th Century .
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

Patric Gonegan Pisin road
To Patric Gonegan Pisin road, South Work Knavee yarde, or theire somware filedelphirea John Shmeet Shermummerbauner Roth began Wester
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

products grain potatoes rape
Electricity - production: 40.277 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 90.8% hydro: 0.07% nuclear: 0% other: 9.13% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 33.037 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - exports: 7.1 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - imports: 2.68 billion kWh (1998) Agriculture - products: grain, potatoes, rape, sugar beets; beef, dairy products; fish Exports: $49.5 billion (f.o.b., 1999) Exports - commodities: machinery and instruments, meat and meat products, fuels, dairy products, ships, fish, chemicals Exports - partners: EU 66.6% (Germany 21.4%, Sweden 11.2%, UK 9.2%, France 5.3%, Netherlands 4.5%), Norway 6.0%, US 4.7% (1998)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

precious garland put round
And he would have given the three worlds to have had the precious garland put round his own neck.
— from A Syrup of the Bees by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

Phœbo gaudet Parnassia rupes
Nec tantum Phœbo gaudet Parnassia rupes, Nec tantum Rhodope miratur et Ismarus Orphea.
— from The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues by Joseph Richardson

produce great physical results
I am not sure that they are not the most hopeful set after all; they believe in severe muscular training as necessary to produce great physical results.
— from Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant

Primer Great Primer Roman
But, waking : Primer (Great Primer?) Roman.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan


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