The question of the origin and age of writing in India, long involved in doubt and controversy, has been greatly cleared up by the recent palæographical researches of Professor Bühler .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

abut sa ámù, The smell of the roast pig reaches our place.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, partly rouse our powers of understanding into activity, to compare to connect, or to separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience?
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

tal and restored to him, a symbol of immortality PURANAS, Hindu Scriptures PWYLL, Prince of Dyved PYGMALION, sculptor in love with a statue he had made, brought to life by Venus, brother of Queen Dido PYGMIES, nation of dwarfs, at war with the Cranes PYLADES, son of Straphius, friend of Orestes PYRAMUS, who loved Thisbe, next door neighbor, and, their parents opposing, they talked through cracks in the house wall, agreeing to meet in the near by woods, where Pyramus, finding a bloody veil and thinking Thisbe slain, killed himself, and she, seeing his body, killed herself (Burlesqued in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream") PYRRHA, wife of Deucalion PYRRHUS (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles PYTHAGORAS, Greek philosopher (540 BC), who thought numbers to be the essence and principle of all things, and taught transmigration of souls of the dead into new life as human or animal beings PYTHIA, priestess of Apollo at Delphi PYTHIAN GAMES PYTHIAN ORACLE PYTHON, serpent springing from Deluge slum, destroyed by Apollo Q QUIRINUS (from quiris, a lance or spear), a war god, said to be Romulus, founder of Rome R RABICAN, noted horse RAGNAROK, the twilight (or ending) of the gods RAJPUTS, minor Hindu caste REGAN, daughter of Leir REGILLUS, lake in Latium, noted for battle fought near by between the Romans and the Latins REGGIO, family from which Rogero sprang REMUS, brother of Romulus, founder of Rome RHADAMANTHUS, son of Jupiter and Europa after his death one of the judges in the lower world RHAPSODIST, professional reciter of poems among the Greeks RHEA, female Titan, wife of Saturn (Cronos), mother of the chief gods, worshipped in Greece and Rome RHINE, river RHINE MAIDENS, OR DAUGHTERS, three water nymphs, Flosshilda, Woglinda, and Wellgunda, set to guard the Nibelungen Hoard, buried in the Rhine RHODES, one of the seven cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace RHODOPE, mountain in Thrace RHONGOMYANT, Arthur's lance RHOECUS, a youth, beloved by a Dryad, but who brushed away a bee sent by her to call him to her, and she punished him with blindness RHIANNON, wife of Pwyll RINALDO, one of the bravest knights of Charlemagne RIVER OCEAN, flowing around the earth ROBERT DE BEAUVAIS', Norman poet (1257) ROBIN HOOD, famous outlaw in English legend, about time of Richard Coeur de Lion ROCKINGHAM, forest of RODOMONT, king of Algiers ROGERO, noted Saracen knight ROLAND (Orlando), See Orlando ROMANCES ROMANUS, legendary great grandson of Noah ROME ROMULUS, founder of Rome RON, Arthur's lance RONCES VALLES', battle of ROUND TABLE King Arthur's instituted by Merlin the Sage for Pendragon, Arthur's father, as a knightly order, continued and made famous by Arthur and his knights RUNIC CHARACTERS, or runes, alphabetic signs used by early Teutonic peoples, written or graved on metal or stone RUTULIANS, an ancient people in Italy, subdued at an early period by the Romans RYENCE, king in Ireland S SABRA, maiden for whom Severn River was named, daughter of Locrine and Estrildis thrown into river Severn by Locrine's wife, transformed to a river nymph, poetically named Sabrina SACRIPANT, king of Circassia SAFFIRE, Sir, knight of Arthur SAGAS, Norse tales of heroism, composed by the Skalds SAGRAMOUR, knight of Arthur St. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, precipitous pointed rock hill on the coast of Brittany, opposite Cornwall SAKYASINHA, the Lion, epithet applied to Buddha SALAMANDER, a lizard like animal, fabled to be able to live in fire SALAMIS, Grecian city SALMONEUS, son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother of Sisyphus SALOMON, king of Brittany, at Charlemagne's court SAMHIN, or "fire of peace," a Druidical festival SAMIAN SAGE (Pythagoras) SAMOS, island in the Aegean Sea SAMOTHRACIAN GODS, a group of agricultural divinities, worshipped in Samothrace SAMSON, Hebrew hero, thought by some to be original of Hercules SAN GREAL (See Graal, the Holy) SAPPHO, Greek poetess, who leaped into the sea from promontory of Leucadia in disappointed love for Phaon SARACENS, followers of Mahomet SARPEDON, son of Jupiter and Europa, killed by Patroclus SATURN (Cronos) SATURNALIA, a annual festival held by Romans in honor of Saturn SATURNIA, an ancient name of Italy SATYRS, male divinities of the forest, half man, half goat SCALIGER, famous German scholar of 16th century SCANDINAVIA, mythology of, giving account of Northern gods, heroes, etc SCHERIA, mythical island, abode of the Phaeacians SCHRIMNIR, the boar, cooked nightly for the heroes of Valhalla becoming whole every morning SCIO, one of the island cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace SCOPAS, King of Thessaly SCORPION, constellation SCYLLA, sea nymph beloved by Glaucus, but changed by jealous Circe to a monster and finally to a dangerous rock on the Sicilian coast, facing the whirlpool Charybdis, many mariners being wrecked between the two, also, daughter of King Nisus of Megara, who loved Minos, besieging her father's city, but he disliked her disloyalty and drowned her, also, a fair virgin of Sicily, friend of sea nymph Galatea SCYROS, where Theseus was slain SCYTHIA, country lying north of Euxine Sea SEMELE, daughter of Cadmus and, by Jupiter, mother of Bacchus SEMIRAMIS, with Ninus the mythical founder of the Assyrian empire of Nineveh SENAPUS, King of Abyssinia, who entertained Astolpho SERAPIS, or Hermes, Egyptian divinity of Tartarus and of medicine SERFS, slaves of the land SERIPHUS, island in the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades SERPENT (Northern constellation)
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

god of the Infernal Regions PLUTUS, god of wealth PO, Italian river POLE STAR POLITES, youngest son of Priam of Troy POLLUX, Castor and (Dioscuri, the Twins) (See Castor) POLYDECTES, king of Seriphus POLYDORE, slain kinsman of Aeneas, whose blood nourished a bush that bled when broken POLYHYMNIA, Muse of oratory and sacred song POLYIDUS, soothsayer POLYNICES, King of Thebes POLYPHEMUS, giant son of Neptune POLYXENA, daughter of King Priam of Troy POMONA, goddess of fruit trees (See VERTUMNUS) PORREX and FER'REX, sons of Leir, King of Britain PORTUNUS, Roman name for Palaemon POSEIDON (Neptune), ruler of the ocean PRECIPICE, threshold of Helas hall PRESTER JOHN, a rumored priest or presbyter, a Christian pontiff in Upper Asia, believed in but never found PRIAM, king of Troy PRIWEN, Arthur's shield PROCRIS, beloved but jealous wife of Cephalus PROCRUSTES, who seized travellers and bound them on his iron bed, stretching the short ones and cutting short the tall, thus also himself served by Theseus PROETUS, jealous of Bellerophon PROMETHEUS, creator of man, who stole fire from heaven for man's use PROSERPINE, the same as Persephone, goddess of all growing things, daughter of Ceres, carried off by Pluto PROTESILAUS, slain by Hector the Trojan, allowed by the gods to return for three hours' talk with his widow Laodomia PROTEUS, the old man of the sea PRUDENCE (Metis), spouse of Jupiter PRYDERI, son of Pwyll PSYCHE, a beautiful maiden, personification of the human soul, sought by Cupid (Love), to whom she responded, lost him by curiosity to see him (as he came to her only by night), but finally through his prayers was made immortal and restored to him, a symbol of immortality PURANAS, Hindu Scriptures PWYLL, Prince of Dyved PYGMALION, sculptor in love with a statue he had made, brought to life by Venus, brother of Queen Dido PYGMIES, nation of dwarfs, at war with the Cranes PYLADES, son of Straphius, friend of Orestes PYRAMUS, who loved Thisbe, next door neighbor, and, their parents opposing, they talked through cracks in the house wall, agreeing to meet in the near by woods, where Pyramus, finding a bloody veil and thinking Thisbe slain, killed himself, and she, seeing his body, killed herself (Burlesqued in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream") PYRRHA, wife of Deucalion PYRRHUS (Neoptolemus), son of Achilles PYTHAGORAS, Greek philosopher (540 BC), who thought numbers to be the essence and principle of all things, and taught transmigration of souls of the dead into new life as human or animal beings PYTHIA, priestess of Apollo at Delphi PYTHIAN GAMES PYTHIAN ORACLE PYTHON, serpent springing from Deluge slum, destroyed by Apollo Q QUIRINUS (from quiris, a lance or spear), a war god, said to be Romulus, founder of Rome R RABICAN, noted horse RAGNAROK, the twilight (or ending) of the gods RAJPUTS, minor Hindu caste REGAN, daughter of Leir REGILLUS, lake in Latium, noted for battle fought near by between the Romans and the Latins REGGIO, family from which Rogero sprang REMUS, brother of Romulus, founder of Rome RHADAMANTHUS, son of Jupiter and Europa after his death one of the judges in the lower world RHAPSODIST, professional reciter of poems among the Greeks RHEA, female Titan, wife of Saturn (Cronos), mother of the chief gods, worshipped in Greece and Rome RHINE, river RHINE MAIDENS, OR DAUGHTERS, three water nymphs, Flosshilda, Woglinda, and Wellgunda, set to guard the Nibelungen Hoard, buried in the Rhine RHODES, one of the seven cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace RHODOPE, mountain in Thrace RHONGOMYANT, Arthur's lance RHOECUS, a youth, beloved by a Dryad, but who brushed away a bee sent by her to call him to her, and she punished him with blindness RHIANNON, wife of Pwyll RINALDO, one of the bravest knights of Charlemagne RIVER OCEAN, flowing around the earth ROBERT DE BEAUVAIS', Norman poet (1257) ROBIN HOOD, famous outlaw in English legend, about time of Richard Coeur de Lion ROCKINGHAM, forest of RODOMONT, king of Algiers ROGERO, noted Saracen knight ROLAND (Orlando), See Orlando ROMANCES ROMANUS, legendary great grandson of Noah ROME ROMULUS, founder of Rome RON, Arthur's lance RONCES VALLES', battle of ROUND TABLE King Arthur's instituted by Merlin the Sage for Pendragon, Arthur's father, as a knightly order, continued and made famous by Arthur and his knights RUNIC CHARACTERS, or runes, alphabetic signs used by early Teutonic peoples, written or graved on metal or stone RUTULIANS, an ancient people in Italy, subdued at an early period by the Romans RYENCE, king in Ireland S SABRA, maiden for whom Severn River was named, daughter of Locrine and Estrildis thrown into river Severn by Locrine's wife, transformed to a river nymph, poetically named Sabrina SACRIPANT, king of Circassia SAFFIRE, Sir, knight of Arthur SAGAS, Norse tales of heroism, composed by the Skalds SAGRAMOUR, knight of Arthur St. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, precipitous pointed rock hill on the coast of Brittany, opposite Cornwall SAKYASINHA, the Lion, epithet applied to Buddha SALAMANDER, a lizard like animal, fabled to be able to live in fire SALAMIS, Grecian city SALMONEUS, son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother of Sisyphus SALOMON, king of Brittany, at Charlemagne's court SAMHIN, or "fire of peace," a Druidical festival SAMIAN SAGE (Pythagoras) SAMOS, island in the Aegean Sea SAMOTHRACIAN GODS, a group of agricultural divinities, worshipped in Samothrace SAMSON, Hebrew hero, thought by some to be original of Hercules SAN GREAL (See Graal,
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

Ammunition S.A.A. 200 rounds per rifle or person; 3,500 rounds per machine-gun in belt boxes.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

In its present form this play is dedicated to the reading public only, and no performance, representation, production, recitation, or public reading, or radio broadcasting may be given except by special arrangement with Samuel French, 25 West 45th Street, New York.
— from The Ghost of Jerry Bundler by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Page 14, opening double quote inserted before ‘Marjorie,’ “and the “Marjorie Dean College” Page 16, ‘is’ struck following ‘She’s,’ “She’s exasperating” Page 22, opening double quote inserted before ‘Feel,’ ““Feel the chill” Page 23, ‘Leida’ changed to ‘Leila,’ “Leila cast a grim” Page 35, ‘promply’ changed to ‘promptly,’ “Ronny promptly read out” Page 50, closing double quote struck following ‘might,’ “you might.
— from Marjorie Dean, Marvelous Manager by Josephine Chase

Yet on Babylonian tiles, and especially in old Chinese and Japanese drawings, in the oldest Pagodas and monuments, and in the Imperial Library at Pekin, many a traveller has seen and recognized perfect representations of Plesiosauri and Pterodactyls in the multiform Chinese dragons.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

[647] Mrs. Roger Pryor, Reminiscences of Peace and War, pp.
— from Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson

If the vertebra is straight 138 posterior, equal force must be applied on the two sides; if it is posterior and slightly rotated (P. R. or P. L.), most force must be applied to the more posterior transverse.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban