This closed the transactions of Elizabeth's reign with respect to Ireland; an interval of apparent tranquility followed, but the popish priesthood, ever restless and designing, sought to undermine by secret machinations, that government and that faith which they durst no longer openly attack.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

These little flags vary in shape, color and printed pattern, each representing a particular lot of coffee, and they are firmly fixed at the part of the pier where those bags should be stacked.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

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 daily intercourse, for all present purposes, each representing all the world to the other, beyond the reach of officious or intrusive outsider; she dependent upon him for everything—protection, companionship, even the very means of subsistence—what a labour of love was all this.
— from John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford

A few years later, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, he threw in his fortunes with those of a Persian princeling en retraite , and in his name fought a variety of battles, in which he was invariably victorious.
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel

They did not now run very much risk of cruisers, as Fritz had French papers perfectly en regle , and Captain Littlestone would have had little difficulty to prove his identity; besides, the speed of the Nelson was sufficient to secure their safety in cases where danger was to be apprehended.
— from Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson Or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean by Adrien Paul

by the thunder and rattle of conventional patriotic phrases, endlessly repeated along the whole length and breadth of Russia, we failed to detect the fundamental, innate defect of the Russian people—its lack of patriotism.
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

The posterior piece evidently represents a fusion of the elements of two segments, as there are articular surfaces for two pairs of ribs.
— from The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum... by Frederick W. (Frederick William) True

Mr. Fogg made these entries in a journal ruled in columns, commencing on the 2nd of October, and so on to the 21st of December, which indicated respectively the month, the day of the month, and the day of the week, as well as the days at which he was due at the principal places en route —as, for instance, Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, Liverpool, London.
— from Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

erst, poor and blind, A wanderer didst thou sing thy Epic verse, Which peasants, princes equally rehearse, And act thy characters of lofty mind— War’s trump Calliope aloud doth blow, When telling of fair Ilium’s famous towers, Which Greece beleaguered with her mighty powers, Led by Pelides, Hector’s sternest foe— Fair Helen’s beauty thou dost there portray, Whom gallant, bold old generals admire; Speaking, too, of his rovings wild and ire, Whose bended bow doth the wild suitors slay—
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various