Halfway up the path she met Jane and Diana rushing back to the pond in a state narrowly removed from positive frenzy.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And pray, sir, may I, without offence, enquire whither you are travelling this way?”—“Fill the glass, Mr Barber,” said Jones, “and ask no more questions.”—“Nay, sir,” answered Benjamin, “I would not be troublesome; and I hope you don't think me a man of an impertinent curiosity, for that is a vice which nobody can lay to my charge; but I ask pardon; for when a gentleman of your figure travels without his servants, we may suppose him to be, as we say, in casu incognito , and perhaps I ought not to have mentioned your name.”—“I
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

‘The people are great farmers,’ said the Captain, ‘as well as innkeepers;’ and, indeed, the place seemed more a farm than an inn yard.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

pence Pension boarding house Pension superannuation Pension; Rente pension Pensionsalter pensionable age Pensionskasse pension fund Pensionskasse pension pool Pensionskasse staff pension fund per Adresse care of per Anhänger by trailers per Fähre by ferries per Fernschreiben by telex per Kabel by cable per Luftpost through the post by airmail per Telegramm by telegram perfekt perfect perfekter Wettbewerb perfect competition periodisch periodical periodisch wiederkehrend recurring periodische Zahlungen; regelmäßige Zahlungen periodic payments permanente Revision continuous audit Personal personnel Personalabteilung personnel department Personalabteilung personnel division Personalabteilung staff department Personalakten personnel files Personalanforderung personnel requisition Personalangaben personal data Personalauswahl selection of personnel Personalausweis identity card Personalausweis; Kennkarte identification card Personalbüro; Personalabteilung personnel office Personalchef personnel officer Personalchef staff manager Personalchef; Leiter der Personalabteilung personnel manager Personalfluktuation labour turnover Personalführung personnel management Personalkredit personal loan Personalverwaltung personnel administration Personenbeförderung conveyance of passengers Personenschaden damage to persons persönlich personal persönlich bekannt of known identity persönlich erscheinen to appear in person persönlich haftender Gesellschafter partner liable to unlimited extent persönlich; als Einzelner individually persönliche Akte individual file persönliche Befragung face-to-face interview persönliche Daten; personenbezogene Daten personal data persönliche Einkünfte; persönliches Interview personal earnings persönliche Vereinbarung private arrangement persönliche Zeitzugabe personal allowance persönliche Zeitzugabe personal needs allowance persönlicher Assistent personal assistant persönlicher Bedarf individual demand persönlicher Besitz personal property persönlicher Freibetrag personal allowance persönlicher Vorteil; persönlicher Nutzen personal benefit persönliches Eigentum; Sachbesitz personal property persönliches Gepäck accompanied luggage persönliches Gespräch mit Voranmeldung personal call persönliches Gut; bewegliches Gut; Hausrat personal chattels Pesnionierung retirement pessimistische Zeit pessimistic time
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Perhaps she might be here still, who knows?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dost thou think by constant Proofs of lasting passion, Slowly my obdurate Will to wear away?
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Hence in some parts of Silesia the people burn pine-resin all night long between Christmas and the New Year in order that the pungent smoke may drive witches and evil spirits far away from house and homestead; and on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve they fire shots over fields and meadows, into shrubs and trees, and wrap straw round the fruit-trees, to prevent the spirits from doing them harm.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Here late, quite finishing things against his going, and so rose, and I walked home, being accompanied by Creed to Temple Bar, talking of this afternoon’s passage, and so I called at the Wardrobe in my way home, and there spoke at the Horn tavern with Mr. Moore a word or two, but my business was with Mr. Townsend, who is gone this day to his country house, about sparing Charles Pepys some money of his bills due to him when he can, but missing him lost my labour.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This day my wife and I full of thoughts about Mrs. Pierces sending me word that she, and my old company, Harris and Knipp, would come and dine with us next Wednesday, how we should do-to receive or put them off, my head being, at this time, so full of business, and my wife in no mind to have them neither, and yet I desire it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Livingstone had satisfied himself that the great River Leeambye, up which he had paddled so many miles on his way to the west, was identical with the Zambesi, which he had discovered four years previously.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Up to now the old cowboys had seen nothing but a hard life (though there were enjoyable spots here and there) and they counted on dying with their boots on, not from violence, perhaps, so much as from wearing out at their labors.
— from The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley; Or, Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Willard F. Baker

We continued our way, and presently saw marks of a fire in some grass by the side of the road.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

He thought to himself that if he did return and interrupted the wild-cat a second time he would not escape as easily as he had on this occasion, and consequently he tried to devise a means to prevent such meeting.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Foresters by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

M. Desmoulins, in his Apology for the Internationals , as quoted by The Dublin Review , says: “The Parisian Red, far from being out of the pale of human nature, is only a spontaneous product of what is pompously styled modern civilization—a civilization that, resting to this hour on war between nation and nation, town and town, farm and farm, men and men, is still in many respects sheer barbarism.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

He adds, that Pyrrhus gained more Reputation by Inventing the Dance which is called after his Name, than by all his other Actions: That the Lacedæmonians , who were the bravest People in Greece , gave great Encouragement to this Diversion, and made their Hormus (a Dance much resembling the French Brawl ) famous over all Asia : That there were still extant some Thessalian Statues erected to the Honour of their best Dancers: And that he wondered how his Brother Philosopher could declare himself against the Opinions of those two Persons, whom he professed so much to admire, Homer and Hesiod ; the latter of which compares Valour and Dancing together; and says, That the Gods have bestowed Fortitude on some Men, and on others a Disposition for Dancing .
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

Aunt Mary, who was kept au courant , wrote: "How can you, dear Philip Gilbert, find time to paint so much, and to write so much?"
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

"Why," said another of the judges, "have you, contrary to the king's authority within the realm, persuaded so many persons as you have done to disobey the king and parliament?"
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude