People wished to make them contemptible by treating them contemptibly for nearly twenty centuries, and refusing them access to all honourable positions and dignities, and by pushing them further down into the meaner trades—and under this process indeed they have not become any cleaner.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Arabians called our Ladies-thistles by that name; the roots of which are drying and binding, stop fluxes, bleeding, take away cold swellings, and ease the pains of the teeth.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into business and trying to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum , another's brass, for some of their coins were made of brass; still living, and dying, and buried by this other's brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offenses; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or import his groceries for him; making yourselves sick, that you may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the brick bank; no matter where, no matter how much or how little.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Baloo went down to the tank for a drink and Bagheera began to put his fur in order, as Kaa glided out into the center of the terrace and brought his jaws together with a ringing snap that drew all the monkeys’ eyes upon him.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

28 Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference, and based also on the face of man; whence it happens that symmetry is only wanted in breadth, not in height or depth.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Schiffs abandonment of a ship Aufgaben der Betriebsleitung managerial functions Aufgabenbereich field of functions Aufgabenbereich scope of duties Aufgabenbeschreibung task breakdown Aufgabenkreis scope of functions aufgeben abandon aufgeben give up aufgeben; quitt quit aufgebläht; überhöht inflated aufgebracht upset aufgegebene Ware abandoned goods aufgelaufen accrued aufgelaufene Gebühren accrued charges aufgelaufene Kosten accruals aufgelaufene Schulden backlog of debts aufgelaufene Verbindlichkeiten accrued liabilities aufgelaufene Zinsen accumulated interest aufgelaufener Betrag accumulated amount aufgelaufener Zins accrued interest aufgelaufener Zins broken-period interest aufgerundet; annähernd approximated aufgeschlossen open-minded aufgeschoben; verzögert deferred aufgezählt im Inkassoauftrag listed in the collection order Aufgliederung; Aufschlüsselung breakdown aufgrund der Ausfuhr by reason of exportation aufgrund der Erfüllung seiner Verpflichtungen in discharge of his duties aufgrund einer solchen Unstimmigkeit in respect od such discrepancy aufgrund erhaltener Weisung on instructions received aufheben override aufheben suspend Aufhebung abolishment Aufhebung suspension Aufhebung einer Ehe annulment of a marriage Aufhebung einer Verordnung suspension of a regulation Aufhebung; Suspensierung suspension aufhören cease aufhören discontinue Aufkauf buying-up
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

No, oh, no; for then she would be deafer and dumber and blinder than she was before.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

It is that distant years which did not take Thy sovranty, recoiling with a blow, Have forced my swimming brain to undergo Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake Thy purity of likeness and distort
— from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Could they take bail for a riot, a dastardly attack by a mob of cowards on a poor defenseless woman, the gentlest and most inoffensive creature in England?
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

@Maldives:Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Maldives conventional short form: Maldives local long form: Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa local short form: Dhivehi Raajje Data code: MV Government type: republic Capital: Male Administrative divisions: 19 atolls (atholhu, singular and plural) and 1 other first-order administrative division*; Alifu, Baa, Dhaalu, Faafu, Gaafu Alifu, Gaafu Dhaalu, Gnaviyani, Haa Alifu, Haa Dhaalu, Kaafu, Laamu, Lhaviyani, Maale*, Meemu, Noonu, Raa, Seenu, Shaviyani, Thaa, Vaavu Independence: 26 July 1965 (from UK) National holiday: Independence Day, 26 July (1965) Constitution: adopted January 1998
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I myself have often determined on searching Pontanus, and other ancient Danish authorities, but hitherto neglected, and therefore know nothing about the matter.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various

We have a new ladder, in a bog, close to the new fire-engine, so if the new house catches fire, like its predecessor, and there should happen to, be a sick man on an upper floor, he can be got out without running the risk of going up and down a burning staircase.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But the first great sorrow of his life had fallen upon him; that which ages a man in a single day; that which breaketh off and casteth far from him all the brightness and freshness of his youth forever, and setteth him henceforth face to face with the hard and bitter realities of life, making all of the beautiful past only a dim and blessed memory of happiness, the light and sweetness whereof his lip shall taste no more on earth.
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

In vain do we look for any other explanation of the sudden stiffening up of the backbone of the Revolutionary army, or of the equally sudden restoration of an apparently dead and buried cause after even its most devoted followers 8 had given up all as lost.
— from The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 by Samuel Adams Drake

I have always dreamed, all my life, of a woman like you, who would be close beside me, and share all my hopes and dreams, and be the cause of them all as well, and be glad of my successes and not think the less of me because of my failures.
— from The Green God by Frederic Arnold Kummer

He spent many of his days in riding about the county, palavering the farmers and flattering their wives and daughters, and, by his genial Irish manners, making friends against the time of need.
— from The Graysons: A Story of Illinois by Edward Eggleston