dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively[obs3], logy [U.S.]; unimaginative; insulse[obs3]; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable" [Hamlet].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

You will not thrust him, the poor, pale, passive mortal—you will not thrust such a helpless creature out of your door?
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

the verb dūcō eques, equitis , m., horseman, cavalryman (equestrian) iūdex, iūdicis, m., judge lapis, lapidis , m., stone (lapidary) mīles, mīlitis , m., soldier (militia) pedes, peditis , m., foot soldier (pedestrian) pēs, pedis , 1 m., foot (pedal) prīnceps, prīncipis , m., chief (principal) rēx, rēgis , m., king (regal) summus, -a, -um , highest, greatest (summit) virtūs, virtūtis , f., manliness, courage (virtue) 1. Observe that e is long in the nom.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

How Horatius held the Bridge ( Concluded ) Mox, ubi parva pars pontis mānsit, Horātius iussit comitēs discēdere et sōlus mīrā cōnstantiā impetum illius tōtius exercitūs sustinēbat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“I had such a horror of the pork diet, that whenever I saw the dinner in progress I fled to the canoe, in the hope of drowning upon the waters all reminiscences of the hateful banquet; but even here the very fowls of the air and the reptiles of the deep lifted up their voices, and shouted, 'Pork, pork, pork!'” M—— remonstrated with his friend for deserting the country for such minor evils as these, which, after all, he said, could easily be borne.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

As a noun, Germānus, -ī , m., a German multus, -a, -um , much ; plur., many Adverb saepe , often 286 LESSON XIII, § 95 Nouns ager, agrī , m., field (acre) cōpia, -ae , f., plenty, abundance (copious); plur., troops, forces Cornēlius, Cornē´lī , m., Cornelius lōrī´ca, -ae , f., coat of mail, corselet praemium, praemī , n., reward, prize (premium) puer, puerī , m., boy (puerile) Rōma, -ae , f., Rome scūtum, -ī , n., shield (escutcheon) vir, virī , m., man, hero (virile)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

pisngà, pisngag, pisngi, pisngì, pisngig mild cuss word expressing disgust (euphemism for pisti ).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Another, Ladislas Farago, a political journalist who started out as an authority on the Axis fifth column in the Near East and ended up in American naval psychological warfare planning, put forth a book called German Psychological Warfare: A Critical, Annotated and Comprehensive Survey and Bibliography (New York, 1941), which digested hundreds of German works on topics pertaining to psychology and war, much of this material concerned personnel practices, psychosomatic medicine, and other non-propaganda aspects of psychology, but the book as a whole was an impressive demonstration of how much the Germans had done to make their war scientific.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Pauperism, pauper, poor man, are expressions of pity, but pity alloyed with contempt.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

A private printing press may have been among the tools habitually employed by the author.
— from Baconian Essays by Smithson, E. W. (Edward Walter), active 19th century

This plant properly produces male and female flowers on the same fascicles; and in the female flowers the perianth is superior; but a plant at Kew produced, besides the ordinary flowers, others which graduated towards a perfect hermaphrodite structure; and in these flowers the perianth was inferior.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Pakistan Muslim League-Functional or PML-F [Pir PAGARO]; Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Sharif or PML-
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The causes of the malady of February 1801 were partly physical, partly mental.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

But a modern lamplighter with tall pole pushes past me, and—— "Please, lydy, gimme suthin' jis' to keep the life in my little byby," wails the voice of the professional beggar, breaking the spell, and disclosing an unhappy, shawled, and croupy infant.
— from Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook

For an average lock of six hundred feet length and one hundred and ten feet width, with navigable pass of six hundred feet length, and with weirs of two hundred and forty feet available openings, all arranged to provide six feet navigable depth in the shoalest parts of the improved channels of the pools, with an average lift at each dam of seven and two-tenths feet: Lock, including cofferdam, excavations, foundations, masonry, timber, and ironwork of fixed and movable parts, power plant, machinery, and accessories $350,000 Navigable pass; same items as above 150,000 Weirs, piers, abutments; same items as above 170,000 Miscellaneous, including local surveys, purchase of sites, embanking, retaining, riprapping, and paving of banks, lock employees’ houses, storehouses, other buildings, dredging of approaches to locks and passes, [Pg 215] dredging of shoals and removal of obstructions in pools, engineering work of location, construction, and inspection, office work of engineering and disbursements, and other contingencies 200,000 ———— Total $870,000 But the extra width and height of lock esplanade filling, extra length of weirs, and extra channel dredging, incident to the individual locations of the dams, increase the above estimates to final totals of from nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars to one million, one hundred thousand dollars at the individual dams.
— from Waterways of Westward Expansion - The Ohio River and its Tributaries by Archer Butler Hulbert