3. 4. 23. 4. Put vpon : To instigate; incite.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

As the house stood at little more than three miles’ distance from Stratford, I resolved to pay it a pedestrian visit, that I might stroll leisurely through some of those scenes from which Shakespeare must have derived his earliest ideas of rural imagery.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

At his head and feet burnt lamps, and by his side were placed several of the beautiful painted vases that I have described, which were perhaps supposed to be full of provisions.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

At the door of the room the old man looked back at his visitor, and said in the same peevish voice, "This is a poor place for me to pass my declining years in, Mr. Audley.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

If you want to read the Author's Note, please visit the Introduction of our production of the novella, Those Extraordinary Twins .
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

This ablative is regularly used with passive verbs to indicate the person by whom the act was performed.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

is it not? Ponio, v. to swell, to puff Pont, n. an arch, a bridge Pontbren, n. a wooden bridge Poplysen, n. the poplar tree Pôr, n. what is over, supreme Porch, n. a pig, a swine Porchell, n. a tiny pig Porchelliad, n. a pigging Porchellu, v. to bring pigs Porchellyn, n. a little pig Porfa, n. pasture, grass Porfâd, n. a pasturing Porfadir, n. pasture-ground Porfâu, v. to depasture Porfel, n. pasture, grass Porfelu, v. depasture Porfelydd, n. a pasturer Porffor, Porphor, a. purple Pori, v. to graze, to browse Poriad, n. a grazing, a browsing Porianu, v. to depasture Poriant, n. pasturage, browsing Poriol, a. pasturing, grazing Portreiad, n. a pattern, a sampler, a model Porth, n. aid, help what bears; sustenance; a carriage; a ferry; a port; a gateway Portha, v. to afford aid or help Porthfa, n. a carrying place; a port Porthi, v. to aid, to support, to bear, to convey Porthiad, n. a helping on; a bearing Porthiadu, v. to be a support Porthianna, v. to provide; to act as a drover Porthianuu, v. to render support Porthiaunus, a. having support Porthiant, n. support, succour Porthid, n. assistance, support Porthladd, n. a port, a harbour Porthle, n. a carrying place Porthloedd, n. means of support Porthlys, n. a porte-mote Porthmon, n. a purveyor, a drover Porthmona, v. to act as a drover Porthmonaeth, n. purveyance Porthog, n. a portcullis Porthol, a. aiding, supporting Portholi, v. to render supportative Porthor, n. a porter, a door-keeper Porthordy, n. a porter’s lodge Porthori, v. to act as porter Porthoriaeth, n. a porter’s office Porthwy, n. assistance support Porthwr, n. a provider, a feeder; a porter Porthwys, n. a ferryman Poset, n. curdled milk, posset Posfardd, n. a preceptive bard Posiad, n. a questioning, a posing Posiar, n. a fattened hen Posio, v. to examine, to pose Posned, n. a squat; a skillet Post, n. a post, a pillar Postio, v. to put up a post Pot, n. a pot Potel, n. a bottle; a truss Poteliad, n. a bottling Poteli, v. to bottle; to truss Poten, n. a paunch; a pudding Potenig, n. a little paunch Potenog, a. having a paunch Potenu, v. to form a paunch Potes, n. a pottage, broth, soup Potiad, n. a potting; potation Pot, v. to pot; to pipple Poth, n. what bulges; a boss Pothan, n. a bump, a boss; a cub Pothell, n. a wheal, a blister Pothellog, a. puffy; blistered Pothellu, v. to puff; to blister Pothon, n. a boss; a cub Powys, n. a state of rest Prad, n. a gentle spread; a rub Praff, a. ample; thick round Praffder, n. thickness round Praffu, v. thicken in compass Praidd, n. a flock, a herd; booty, prey Pianc, n. a frolic, a prank Prancio, v. to play a prank Pratiad, n. a stroking, a coaxing Pratio, v. to stroke, to coax Praw, Prawf, profion, n. an essay, a trial, a proof Prawen, n. an essay; a cast in play Prawfaen, n. a touchstone Pre, n. the origin of a course Pred, n. a stray; a migration Preg, n. a greet, a greeting Pregeth, n. a sermon Pregethiad, n. a preaching Pregethu, v. to preach Pregethwr, n. a preacher Preidiad, n. a migrating Preidio, v. to migrate Preiddio, n. a herding; predation Preiddio, v. to herd, to collect a herd; to predate Preinio, v. to carouse Praethiad, a practising Preithig, a. belonging to practice
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

This they had carried on by Means of a Mulatto Boy, who was allow’d to attend them, and proved very trusty in his Messages, between the Principals; but the Evening of that Night they were to have made this Struggle, two of the Prisoners that sat next to Ashplant , heard the Boy whisper them upon the Project, and naming to him the Hour they should be ready, presently gave Notice of it to the Captain, which put the Ship in an Alarm, for a little Time; and, on Examination, several of them had made shift to break off, or lose, their Shackles, (no doubt for such Purpose;) but it tended only to procure to themselves worse Usage and Confinement.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Here the plant is a steer roaring like the noise of the Maruts (5-6), and then (as above, after the term steer is applied to the plant), it is said that he 'sharpens his horns,' and is 'sightly,' and further, 'he sits down in the fair place … on the wooly back,' etc., which bring one to still another hymn where are to be found like expressions, used, evidently, not of the moon, but of the plant, viz. to IX.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

Now, THAT I call really selfish; and selfishness is a vulgar piggish vice that I thoroughly abominate.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

Among the Warramunga there is one totem which is particularly venerated, this is the snake called Wollunqua; its name is taboo.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Erátque solariolum vnum, de tabulis altè præparatum, vbi thronus Imperatoris erat positus, ex ebore mirabiliter sculptus, in quo etiam erat aurum, et lapides preciosi, si bene meminimus, et illuc ascendebatur per gradus.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

It is not from any idle wish to obtrude my humble person with undue prominence upon the publick view that I resume my pen upon the present occasion.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The mystery of coal-tar products was shut up in a German laboratory; the secrets of tungsten, necessary to the toughest steel, were imprisoned in a Teutonic mill; and so on down a long list of products vital to industry and defence.
— from The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Lord Minto was sent to Italy to encourage in the ways of political virtue those Italian princes who were not entirely incorrigible.
— from The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

They worked quietly, with one immutable political purpose, with which they allowed no prejudiced party view to interfere.
— from An American Politician: A Novel by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

His two previous visits to it had made him well acquainted with Turgot, Quesnay, Dupont de Nemours, the elder Mirabeau, Dubourg and Morellet and the other members of the group, known as the Physiocrats, whose speculative passion for Agriculture was one of the active intellectual forces of the time.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce