I swung through little old thatched villages, and over peaceful lowland streams, and past gardens blazing with hawthorn and yellow laburnum.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

— N. foresight, prospicience[obs3], prevision, long- sightedness; anticipation; providence &c. (preparation) 673.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

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

Over this hill we saw three men coming down, dressed partly like sailors and partly like Californians; one of them having on a pair of untanned leather trowsers and a red baize shirt.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Secretary of State under the Restoration, the Marquis, anxious to re-enter political life, set about preparing for his candidature to the Chamber of Deputies long beforehand.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

One day in the summer of 1915 when Lord K. had summoned me to ask some question, he appeared to be in (p. 069) particularly low spirits, and presently he showed me a communication (a telegram, I think it was) from Sir J. French, intimating that one of the New Army divisions which had recently proceeded across the water had not borne itself altogether satisfactorily when assailed in the trenches.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

Mr. Pyecroft looked surprised and puzzled.
— from No. 13 Washington Square by Leroy Scott

It is, indeed, difficult to understand how, if any "stage-play could preserve liberty," such a play as Cato should do the work.
— from Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen

Believe, ye Pisos, the book will be perfectly like such a picture, the ideas of which, like a sick man's dreams, are all vain and fictitious: so that neither head nor foot can correspond to any one form.
— from The Works of Horace by Horace

Whoever studies general Linguistic, that is to say, philosophical Linguistic, studies aesthetic problems, and vice versa .
— from Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

When it is such as is made for the good of the kingdom, the covenant expresses its end, for the perpetual good of the kingdom, 'having before our eyes the glory of God, the advancement of the kingdom of——Christ, the honour and happiness of the king and his posterity, and the true public liberty, safety, and peace of the kingdoms; wherein every one's private condition is included.'
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields