Our present unsystematic private philanthropy does little good in proportion to the great expenditure it involves.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

[ Consedimus in ipsis Tarpeiæ arcis ruinis, pone ingens portæ cujusdam, ut puto, templi, marmoreum limen, plurimasque passim confractas columnas, unde magnâ ex parte prospectus urbis patet, (p. 5.)]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Et encore, Amazon.com ne vend son "contenu" qu'en Microsoft Reader, et si chez d'autres le choix est plus grand, ces "contenus" paraissent un peu "prétextes commerciaux".
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

left us this morning and returned to their village, after begging for maney things which they did not secure as we Could not Spare them I gave the Chief Canio a Razor, Sent out 3 men across the river to hunt, all others employd putting up pickets Pete Crusat Sick with a violent Cold My Servent better—we are told by the Indians that a whale has foundered on the Coast to the N. W and their nations is collecting fat of him, the wind is too high for us to See it, Capt Lewis is been in readiness 2 days to go and Collect Some of the whale oyle the wind has proved too high as yet for him to Set out in Safty
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Then he put up posters promising to devote his whole paper to matters connected with the great event—there would be a full and intensely interesting biography of the murderer, and even a portrait of him.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Nous y sommes, à l'internet multilingue: reste à le consolider et à veiller à l'égalité des chances d'accès, ce qui prendra probablement un peu plus de temps.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Long after the application of General Badeau, General Townsend, who had become Adjutant-General of the Army, while packing up papers preparatory to the removal of his office, found this letter in some out-of-the-way place.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

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

3a participate in the giving of punishment, usually physical punishment.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If a judge could be removed from office by a popular vote, whoever was desirous of supplanting him would make capital for that purpose out of all his judicial decisions; would carry all of them, as far as he found practicable, by irregular appeal before a public opinion wholly incompetent, for want of having heard the case, or from having heard it without either the precautions or the impartiality belonging to a judicial hearing; would play upon popular passion and prejudice where they existed, and take pains to arouse them where they did not.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

They have promised us protection provided we will join the rebel army.
— from A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by William Monks

pleasure healthy, healthful hear, listen heathen, pagan honorable, honorary horrible, horrid human, humane illegible, unreadable image, effigy imaginary, imaginative impending, approaching imperious, imperial imply, infer in, into inability, disability ingenious, ingenuous intelligent, intellectual insinuation, innuendo instinct, intuition involve, implicate irony, sarcasm irretrievable, irreparable judicious, judicial just, equitable justify, warrant lack, want languor, lassitude later, latter lawful, legal lax, slack leave, let lend, loan liable, likely libel, slander lie, lay like, love linger, loiter look, see loose, lose luxurious, luxuriant majority, plurality marine, maritime martial, military moderate, temperate mood, humor moral, ethical moral, religious mutual, reciprocal myth, legend natal, native nautical, naval near, close necessaries, necessities needy, needful noted, notorious novice, tyro observance, observation observe, perceive obsolete, archaic omnipresent, ubiquitous on, upon oppose, resist opposite, contrary oppress, depress palliate, extenuate passionate, impassioned pathos, pity patron, customer peculiar, unusual perspicuity, perspicacity permeate, pervade permit, allow perseverance, persistence pertain, appertain pictorial, picturesque pitiable, pitiful pity, sympathy pleasant, pleasing politician, statesman practicable, practical precipitous, precipitate precision, preciseness prejudice, bias prelude, overture pride, vanity principal, principle process, procedure procure, secure professor, teacher progress, progression propitious, auspicious proposal, proposition tradition, legend truth, veracity quiet, quiescent raise, rear raise, rise ransom, redeem rare, scarce reason, understanding reasonable, rational recollect, remember regal, royal reliable, trustworthy requirement, requisite restive, restless reverse, inverse ride, drive rime (or rhyme), rhythm sacred, holy salutation, salute scanty, sparse scholar, student science, art scrupulous, conscientious serf, slave shift, expedient sick, ill silent, taciturn sit, set skilled, skilful slender, slim smart, clever sociable, social solicitude, anxiety stay, stop stimulus, stimulation strut, swagger suppress, repress termination, terminus theory, hypothesis tolerate, permit torment, torture tradition, legend truth, veracity unbelief, disbelief unique, unusual varied, various variety, diversity venal, venial vengeance, revenge verse, stanza vindictive, revengeful visit, visitation visitant, visitor wander, stray warn, caution will, volition wit, humor witness, see womanish, womanlike worth, value Pairs of the third type are made up of words parallel in meaning.
— from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor

Ideal as was that relationship, it had this drawback—that it tended to “standardize,” if I may so phrase it, their prejudices upon purely personal, as apart from critical or intellectual issues.
— from In Good Company Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips by Coulson Kernahan

Following with interest and admiration their courageous fight for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, which placed women suspected of prostitution under police power, Susan found encouragement in the support these reformers had received from such men as John Stuart Mill and Jacob Bright.
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

Princeton University Press (PPW); 19Aug74; R583698.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Currant Pie Use Plain Paste .
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1915 {iv} Copyright, 1915, by Princeton University Press —— Published November, 1915 {v} To A. M. WITH THE LASTING AFFECTION OF THE AUTHOR, WHO IS INDEBTED TO HIM FOR MUCH INSPIRATION {vi} {vii} INTRODUCTION
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

Un complice de mon capteur l’aide a transporter le prêtre et moi dans le sein du pays, où l’on a préparé une prison pour nous.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

For all these reasons—fear of the law, which pounces upon poor people they know not whence, fear of the hardened judge who refers the case to his learning rather than to his conscience—our peasants in Western France with difficulty make up their minds to set in motion the so-called "protective" machinery of the law.
— from The Surprises of Life by Georges Clemenceau