According to some, these doggerel verses, current on the occasion, were extemporised by Cardinal John in the pious exuberance of his glee:— "Papatûs munus tulit Archidiaconus unus Quem Patrem Patrum fecit discordia Fratrum."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Zunahme sudden increase plötzlicher Anstieg abrupt rise plötzlicher Wechsel sudden change plötzliches Nachlassen sudden fall plündern; Plünderung plunder Plünderung pilferage Plünderung pillaging plus plus Police der Ausbildungsversicherung educational policy Police für den Erlebensfall endowment policy Police mit Gewinnbeteiligung participating policy Politik der Kreditbeschränkung restrictive credit policy Politik der offenen Tür open-door policy Politik des billigen Geldes easy money policy Politik; Versicherungspolice policy politisch political politische Einstellung political attitude politische Ökonomie; Nationalökonomie political economy politisches Zentrum political centre Polizeibeamter police officer Polizeirevier police station populär popular populär machen popularize Portfolio portfolio Porto postage Porto wird vom Empfänger erhoben freepost Portokasse petty cash Portokassenbuch petty cash book Portokassenkonto petty cash account Portosatz postage rate Positionierbewegung positioning movement positiv positive positive Volkswirtschaftslehre positive economics Post; mit der Post senden mail Postabfertigungsraum; Poststelle mail room Postamt post office Postanweisung money order Postanweisung postal order Postausgangsbuch outgoing post book Postausgangskorb out-tray Postbeamter post office clerk Postbehörde postal authority Postbehörden postal authorities
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The expedition was, however, a failure, and all but three of the party perished from disease and exposure to cold in the winter of 1620.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

We had a plum pudding for dinner on Tuesday and there was half the pudding and a pitcherful of sauce left over.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

When Allworthy and Blifil were again left together, a long silence ensued between them; all which interval the young gentleman filled up with sighs, which proceeded partly from disappointment, but more from hatred; for the success of Jones was much more grievous to him than the loss of Sophia.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Some primitives from vowel roots have the form of denominatives in the present system, or throughout; and some verbs with a denominative present system have the perfect and perfect participle formed directly from a root.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

2 [A; b(1)] stifle progress, prevent from developing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost portly and well-built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Qui vid'i' gente piu` ch'altrove troppa, e d'una parte e d'altra, con grand'urli, voltando pesi per forza di poppa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

One sees a plain, perfectly flat, dust-colored and brick-yardy, stretching limitlessly away on every side in the dim gray light, striped everywhere with hard-beaten narrow paths, the vast flatness broken at wide intervals by bunches of spectral trees that mark where villages are; and along all the paths are slender women and the black forms of lanky naked men moving, to their work, the women with brass water-jars on their heads, the men carrying hoes.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Perhaps, for ten successive days were daily jottings put down; if very persistent perchance fifteen days were recorded and then you quit.
— from Frontier Boys in Frisco by Wyn Roosevelt

In the Petit Parisien five days ago there was an advertisement for the recovery of a lady’s gold trinket.
— from Sant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and Spying by William Le Queux

Chapter I. Of various things that happened to the Chief Pilot, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros; until he arrived at the court of the King of Spain.
— from The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606. Volume 1 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

After this Woldo wrested a lance from a long, aukward fellow that was next him, standing amazed, and levelled the point at him in a manner that I thought to see the poor peasant fall dead in an instant: the fellow fled in a trice, so did they all to a man; and no wonder, for in my life I never saw any one play the furious devil so naturally.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

The language of the contemporary historian [309] well deserves to be cited: “Periklês, powerful from dignity of character as well as from wisdom, and conspicuously above the least tinge of corruption, held back the people with a free hand, and was their real leader instead of being led by them.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

The town, which was surrounded by the remains of a high wall, and the churchyard were as far as possible prepared for defence.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

Melville had secret instructions to procure permission for Darnley to go to Scotland.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly

"I'm going to make a plum pudding for Dudley to-morrow.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

If they have even a tea-party, no fixed charge for admission is made; the price paid for demolishing the tea and currant bread, and crackers being left to the individual ability and feelings of the participants.
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus