Mayhew says that many of the most expressive street terms in every day use by London and provincial vagabonds are derived from the Jew Fences .
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Practical observations on the most eligible situations for tying each of the principal vessels, as determined by the greatest number of their anastomosing branches on either side of the ligature, and the largest amount of the collateral circulation that may be thereby carried on for the support of distal parts.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Bewegungen predetermined motion times vorbestimmter Zeitwert für eine Bewegung predetermined motion time Vorbörsengeschäfte pre-market dealings vordatieren antedate Vorderseite des Wechsels face of the bill Vorderseite eines Dokuments face Vorderseite eines Schecks face of a cheque Vordruck printed form voreingenommen; verzerrt biased Voreingenommenheit; Vorurteil prejudice voreinstellen preset Vorentwicklung advance development Vorfall incident vorfertigen pre-fabricate vorfertigen; vorfabrizieren prefabricate vorfinanzieren finance in advance Vorfinanzierung advance financing Vorführer demonstrator Vorführer; Vorführarbeiter demonstration worker Vorführgelände demonstration ground Vorführung; Demonstration demonstration Vorgabezeit incentive time Vorgabezeit standard time Vorgabezeit target time Vorgabezeit; Akkordzeit; zulässige Zeit allowed time Vorgänger predecessor vorgeblich alleged Vorgeschichte einer Sache previous history vorgeschrieben aufgrund der Bestimmungen prescribed by the regulations vorgeschriebene Bankreserven legal reserves vorgeschriebene Platzierung; Stelle prescribed position vorgeschriebenes Pensionsalter mandatory retiring age vorgesehen in Artikel 1 contemplated in article 1 vorgesehene Zeit allowed time vorgesetzte Dienststelle superior authority Vorgesetzter superior vorgetäuschte Versteigerung mock auction vorgezogener Ruhestand; vorzeitige Pensionierung early retirement Vorhand first option vorher beforehand vorher; vorherig prior vorherbestimmter Preis administered price vorhergehend preceding vorhergesagtes; geplantes Wachstum projected growth vorherig previus vorherige Billigung previous approval vorherige Nachricht an den Begünstigten prior notice to the beneficiary vorherrschend prevailing Vorhersage; Prognose; Konjunkturprognose; forecasting vorhersagen; Vorhersage; Voraussage forecast vorhersehen foresee Vorhut vanguard vorige Tag previous day vorige Woche previous week voriger Monat; Vormonat previuous month voriges Jahr; Vorjahr previous year Vorkalkulator calculator Vorkalkulator estimator vorkalkulierte Kosten; angestrebte Kosten target cost Vorkalulator estimator Vorkaufsrecht pre-emption Vorkommnis; Vorfall event Vorladung summons Vorladung writ of summons Vorlage eines Wechsels zum Akzept sighting a bill Vorlage zum Akzept presentation for acceptance vorläufig preliminary vorläufige Ankündigung; Voranzeige preliminary announcement vorläufige Befragung preliminary questioning vorläufige Bestellung; Absichtserklärung letter of intent vorläufige Durchsuchung preliminary searching vorläufige Kosten preliminary expenses vorläufige Prüfungen preliminary searches vorläufige Untersuchung preliminary survey vorläufige Untersuchung; Voruntersuchung preliminary investigation vorläufiger Bericht preliminary report vorläufiger Standard temporary standard vorläufiger Standard temporary work value vorlegen present vorlegen; gegenwärtig present vorlegende Banken presenting banks Vorlegung presentation Vorlegung zur Zahlung presentation for payment vorliegende Sache matter in hand vorliegender Vertrag present contract Vormonat ultimo Vormontage sub-assembly Vormontage; Zusammenbau von Teilen assembly of parts
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

paN- v [A23] do s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Historians relate that the ancient inhabitants of the Philippines venerated and deified their ancestors; but now the contrary is true, and the dead have to entrust themselves to the living.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

On the contrary, he must attack and fall upon them with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have for armour the shells of a certain fish, that they say are harder than diamonds, and in place of swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of steel, such as I have more than once seen.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ya han pasado dos meses y las niñas están cansadas del encierro, y abren algún tanto y por un momento, un postigo, para ver algo de la calle y oír el órgano que toca en la esquina o en otra parte.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The plains of Languedoc, blushing with the purple vine and diversified with groves of mulberry, almond and olives, spread far to the north and the east; to the south, appeared the Mediterranean, clear as crystal, and blue as the heavens it reflected, bearing on its bosom vessels, whose white sails caught the sun-beams, and gave animation to the scene.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

(See Grassou, Madame Pierre.) VEZE (Abbe de), a priest of Mortagne, during the Empire, administered the last sacrament to Madame Bryond des Tours-Minieres just before her execution in 1810; he was afterwards one of the Brothers of Consolation, installed in the home of the Baronne de la Chanterie on the rue Chanoinesse, Paris.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

A more immediate development of commercial enterprise cannot fail to result from the opening of a Ship Canal through the Isthmus of Panama; viz., a direct trade between the West India Islands, English, French, and Spanish, and the countries which have been named.
— from A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama by H. R. Hill

He broke his staff over all that he had previously venerated, and declared loudly that he had sinned when in his youth he had believed in the flowery palette of rococo , and completed in tender tones those ceiling frescoes which Fragonard had commenced in the house of Mdlle.
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

The time passed very agreeably, diversified only by little events of not much significance, among which I will recount only one.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"Your personal knowledge," he observes, "of the country on Lake Superior, which, by a late act of Congress has been annexed to, and made a part of the State of Michigan, induces me respectfully to request of you information concerning the nature and extent of the territory thus attached to the State; the qualities of its various soils; the timber and water-powers embraced in it; its minerals and their probable value; the extent of lake-coast added to Michigan; the fisheries and their probable value and duration; the capabilities and conveniences of Lake Superior and the northern Michigan shores, and the cheapness and facility with which a communication may be opened with the lower lakes; together with such other information as it may be in your power to furnish, and as may enable the people of Michigan duly to appreciate the importance of the acquisition."
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Some of the men that we tooke out of her tolde vs, that whilest wee were plying vp and downe before that hauen, as before was shewed, expecting the comming foorth of those shippes, three of the greatest and best of them, at the appointment of the Gouernour of Tercera were vnloden of their treasure and marchandize.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt

The legend afforded an opportunity for painting varied and dramatic scenes, of which Carpaccio takes full advantage, and the cycle is one of the freshest and most characteristic things that has come down to us from the quattrocento.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

As a matter of fact, the Romanic future, the Scandinavian passive voice and definite article present much greater regularity than is found in the flexion of nouns and verbs in old Aryan.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

Prince Henri d', 438 Orson, S. W., 298 "Ouida," 298 Païva, Viscount A. de, 185 —— La, 185 Pamplin, A. W., 469 Panizzardi, Colonel, 437 , 451 , 452 , 463 Paris, F. Zola's scheme for fortifying, 8 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 24 , 25 ; environs of, 60 , 61 ; É. Zola at lectures in, 70 ; corruption of, 84 , 85 , 186 , 352 , 354 , 536 ; Commune of, 127 , 128 , 132 ; markets of, 142 et seq.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

asio , but the red phase very appreciably different, in there being a greater amount of rufous on the lower parts, the breast being nearly uniformly colored, and the rufous broken elsewhere into transverse broad bars, connected along the shaft.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway