The northern branch of the Panjah has its principal source in the Lake Victoria in the Great Pamir, which as well as the Little Pámir, belongs to Wakhán, the Aktash River forming the well recognized boundary between Kashgaria and Wakhán."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The precaution here is probably suggested by the distastefulness of the Apostle’s warnings, which might lead to the suppression of the letter.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

I Sent Crusat, Wiser, Willard and McNeal back to Capt Lewis informing him of my ill Suck'sess, and adviseing him to proceed on to this place as Soon as possible, and my intention of proceededing on to the falls to purchase horses if possible Several Indians arived late this evening.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

By doing the thing at hand surpassingly well, he shows that it would be profitable to employ him in some higher form of occupation, and, when there is profit in his promotion, he is pretty sure to secure it.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The latter advised him to produce him in public, since, if he succeeded well, the philosopher would have the honour, and if he failed, he, Æsop, would alone bear the blame.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

He was followed by one who brought in a boy, and presented him in proper style with "Here's a health to thee, O Seuthes!"
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

But even if the totemic principle has its preferred seat in a determined species of animal or vegetable, it cannot remain localized there.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Privatangelegenheiten private affairs Privatbank private bank Privatbankier (US) individual banker Privatbesitz private property private Körperschaft private corporation private Krankenversicherung private health insurance private Spareinlage private deposit private Vereinbarung; private Abmachung private arrangement privater Besitz private property privater Sektor der Wirtschaft private sector of the economy privater Verbrauch private consumption privates Darlehen personal loan privates Fernsehen; unabhängiges Fernsehen independent television Privatgespräch private call Privatkonto private account Privatsektor private sector Privatunternehmen privately owned concern Privatunternehmen; freie Wirtschaft private enterprise privatwirtschaftliches Risiko commercial risk privilegiert privileged privilegierte Bevölkerung privileged population privilegierte Klassen privileged classes pro Kopf per capita Probe trial Probeabonnement trial subscription Probebefragung pilot test Probebilanz trial balance Probeexemplar advance copy Probeexemplar specimen copy Probeexemplar; Gratisexemplar specimen copy Probeinterview pretest interview Probelast test load Problem problem Problem lösen solve a problem problematisch problematic Produkt product Produktanalyse product analysis Produktauswahl product choice Produktauswahl range of products Produktenbörse commodity exchange Produktenbörse produce exchange Produktentwicklung development of a product Produktentwicklung product development Produktentwicklungsleiter product development manager Produktgestalter product designer Produktgestaltung product design Produktion production Produktion; Ausbringung output Produktionsablauf production flow Produktionsbestgestaltung production engineering Produktionsdaten manufacturing data Produktionseinschränkung limitation of production Produktionserleichterung facilitation of production Produktionsfaktor factor of production Produktionsfaktoren factors of production Produktionsfaktoren production factors Produktionsgemeinkisten production overheads Produktionsgenossenschaft producers' cooperative Produktionsgesellschaft manufacturing company Produktionsgüter capital goods Produktionsgüter industrial goods Produktionsindex index of production Produktionskapazität production capacity Produktionskosten cost of production Produktionskostenvoranschlag production estimate Produktionskurve production curve Produktionsleistung manufacturing efficiency Produktionsmittel means of production Produktionsmöglichkeiten production facilities Produktionsplanung production planning Produktionsprämie production bonus Produktionssteigerung rise in output Produktionsvorgang; Herstellungsablauf production process Produktionszahlen output figures Produktionszeit time of production produktiv productive produktive Arbeit productive labour produktive Arbeit productive work produktive Bevölkerung productive population produktive Tätigkeiten productive operations Produktivität productivity Produktivität der Arbeit; Effektivität efficiency of labour Produktivitätsfaktor agent of productivity Produktivitätssteigerung rise in productivity Produktmanagement product management Produktmanager product executive Produktprofil product personality Produktprofil product profile Produktwerbung product advertising Produzent producer professionell professional Profite gainings Proforma pro forma Proformarechnung pro forma invoice Prognose forecasting Prognose prognosis Prognose der Einnahmen cash forecast Programm (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The fœtal part is formed by the ramifications of the umbilical vessels: “that each of those parts has its peculiar system of arteries and veins, and its peculiar circulation, receiving blood by its arteries, and returning it by its veins; that the circulation through these parts of the placenta differs in the following manner: in the umbilical portion the arteries terminate in the veins by a continuity of canal; whereas, in the uterine portion there are intermediate cells into which the arteries terminate, and from which the veins begin.”
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Every trade, every guild, every nation, every province, had its peculiar saint.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

It shows itself most frequently and painfully, however, in pedagogic spheres, in the literature of public schools.
— from On the Future of our Educational Institutions; Homer and Classical Philology Complete Works, Volume Three by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The multiplication of these little creatures is without 674 parallel, and almost every plant has its peculiar species.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Aura, as he had seen her in her blue linen smock and sandals, Aura as he could picture her in pink satin and diamonds.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

The receipt of these papers had, I presume, so far anticipated, and others this day forwarded will have substantially fulfilled, the object of a subpoena from the District Court of Richmond, requiring that those officers and myself should attend the Court in Richmond, with the letter of General Wilkinson, the answer to that letter, and the orders of the departments of War and the Navy, therein generally described.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

I went to the Pentland Hotel in Princes Street and left there a suit-case containing some clean linen and a change of clothes.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan