IV Id non promissum magis stolide, quam stolide creditum : [tamquam eaedem militares et imperatoriae artes essent!] V Data pro quinque octo milia militum; pars dimidia cives, pars socii.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The whole ball up to the last quadrille was for Kitty an enchanted vision of delightful colors, sounds, and motions.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Words, involving notions, are hard enough to render; it is too much to expect us to translate a sound, and give an elegant version to a jingle.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

But the freedom of Basil was naked and destitute: his farm was ruined by the calamities of war: after his father's death, his manual labor, or service, could no longer support a family of orphans and he resolved to seek a more conspicuous theatre, in which every virtue and every vice may lead to the paths of greatness.
— 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

The Choleric again are excessively vehement, and are angry at everything, and on every occasion; whence comes their Greek name signifying that their choler lies high.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The instinctively mobile and eagerly varying action of childhood, the love of new stimuli and new developments, too easily passes into a "settling down," which means aversion to change and a resting on past achievements.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The audience fell to wondering how I could have produced this crude, meagre, and gloomy work after Rienzi, in every act of which incident abounded, and Tichatschek shone in an endless variety of costumes.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Unterschrift beglaubigen authenticate a signature eine Unterschrift beglaubigen certify a signature eine Unterschrift hinterlegen to lodge a signature eine Urkunde ausstellen draw up a document eine Verabredung treffen make an appointment eine Vereinbarung nicht einhalten break an engagement eine Vereinbarung treffen reach an agreement eine Verordnung ist anwendbar a regulation is applicable eine Verpflichtung auferlegen impose an obligation eine Verpflichtung der benannten Bank an undertaking by the nominated bank eine Verpflichtung nicht einhalten break an engagement eine Verpflichtung übernehmen assume an obligation eine Verpflichtung übernehmen to incur an undertaking eine Verpflichtung zu zahlen an undertaking to pay eine Verpflichtung zur Akzeptleistung an undertaking to accept eine Verpflichtung zur Negoziierung an undertaking to negotiate eine Versammlung einberufen to call a meeting eine Versicherung abschließen effect an insurance eine Versicherung abschließen to cover insurance eine Versicherung abschließen to take out an insurance eine Versicherungsdeckung beschaffen to provide insurance eine Versicherungspolice beleihen lend money on an insurance policy eine Versicherungspolice zu beschaffen to procure a policy of insurance eine volle Wagenladung a wagonload lot eine Vorliebe für etwas haben to have a preference for sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

There was nothing doing in the district—no mining—no milling—no productive effort—no income—and not enough money in the entire camp to buy a corner lot in an eastern village, hardly; and yet a stranger would have supposed he was walking among bloated millionaires.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The crowd of clients bustling to the early morning salutatio of the patronus, and struggling with one another for the sportula is familiar to us in the pages of Juvenal and receives fresh and equally vivid illustration from Martial.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

Immediately on the flight of the Lusignans the council of Fifteen was chosen after a fashion which seemed to give the king's friends an equal voice with the champions of the aristocracy.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

That this development itself progressed rapidly is demonstrated by the fact that while in 1810 the effort of nearly every person was required to produce enough food to sustain the population, in 1910 the efforts of one-third of the people were sufficient to provide food for the nation and export vast quantities to other countries.
— from A Living from the Land by William Budington Duryee

That you may be able to judge, by comparison, what she has accomplished, you must go back a third of a century or so, to the days when Ismail Pasha—he with the brow of a statesman and the chin of a libertine—still sat on the [Pg 109] throne of the Pharaohs, wielding an extravagant, vacillating, and ineffectual rule over a region which stretched from the Mediterranean seaboard southward to Uganda and the sleeping-sickness, and from the Red Sea shore westward until it lost itself in the sand wastes of the Great Sahara.
— from The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

Semi-transparent, glossy, horn-colour, with denticles (as have all except V. edentula and V. minutissima ).
— from Our British Snails by J. W. (John William) Horsley

Of course such protrusions and depressions may only be seen and examined where the rocks themselves are exposed; vegetation, drift, and snow preventing such observations.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams

It is large enough to shelter an entire village under its foliage.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis