"Your brother wrote a petition privately, stating every circumstance that would have a tendency to interest him in our behalf.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Sus ciudades y puertos principales son el centro
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Per che lo spirto tutti storse i piedi; poi, sospirando e con voce di pianto, mi disse:
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

At enim, cum permagna praemia sunt, est causa peccandi.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Present Future Future perfect Present Perfect S e c o
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Austrey, Warwickshire Perpendicular window, Merton College Chapel, Oxford Tudor arch, vestry door, Adderbury Church, Oxon Perpendicular parapet, St. Erasmus’ Chapel, Westminster Abbey Perpendicular moulding, window, Christchurch, Oxford Diagram of a manor Ancient plan of Old Sarum
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

v. , prick, wound, spur; Prikand, riding Prevate, s. , “privity,” privacy, secrecy; secret design, X. 161 Pris, Prys, v. , to prize, esteem, praise Proplexite, s. , perplexity Pryme, prime (six o’clock), the first of the “canonical hours” Pundelan, hero, warrior Punsoune, a dagger Punyhe, a skirmish Pupill, people Purchas, v. , to get, procure (O.F. porchacier , pourchacier , to follow, to procure) Purchas, s. , effort; contrivance, plot, XIX. 12 Purvians, “purveyance,” provisions, IV.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

A committee was chosen, consisting of Reuben Smith, Asa Perry, Phineas Sawyer, Elijah Carter, and Jacob Upton, "to be invested with power to agree with the owners of the new frame erecting for a meeting-house (that of Jacob Upton and others before mentioned) in the north-westerly part of the town, if that appear cheapest for the town,—otherways are invested with power to provide materials and timber for building a new meeting-house in the prudentest manner for said town on said plat of ground."
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various

Moreover, it would be a mistake to compare the lieutenant of police under the ancien régime with the prefect of police of to-day; the lieutenants of police, selected from former maîtres des requêtes , had a judicial character: the documents of the period call them “magistrates”; they issued decrees without appeal and pronounced penal sentences, even condemning to the galleys; they were at the same time justices of the peace with an extensive jurisdiction.
— from Legends of the Bastille by Frantz Funck-Brentano

Unde & in Sigillis summorum Pontificum, usque ad Tempora Leonis Papae, ex altera Parte Bullae, sculpto per Impressionem Piscatore Petro, & supra eum Clave quasi Manu de Coelis ei porrecta, & circa eum Versu, Tu pro me Navem liquisti, suscipe Clavem.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant