And when he began to roam, his father gave him Pegasus who would bear him most swiftly on his wings, and flew unwearying everywhere over the earth, for like the gales he would course along.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

The wonder was, how any family upon earth could bear with the inconvenience of its opening as it did, so long!
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The secession of one State after another followed, until eleven had gone out.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

She mechanically arranged her dress, and fidgeted uncomfortably, eventually changing her seat to the other end of the sofa.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nor were they without cause, for a lusty farmer was flogging him with a belt and following up every blow with scoldings and commands, repeating, “Your mouth shut and your eyes open!”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Vorbehalt under usual reserve unter Vorbehalt akzeptieren to accept under reserve unter Vorbehalt negoziieren to negotiate under reserve unter Vorbehalt zahlen to pay under reserve unter Wert below value unter Wert ansetzen underprize unter Zollverschluss in bond Unterabteilung subdivision unterbelastet underloaded unterbelegt under-staffed unterbelegt; nicht genug Arbeitskräfte understaffed unterbeschäftigt underemployed unterbeschäftigt; nicht voll genutzt underemployed Unterbeschäftigung below capacity employment Unterbeschäftigung underemployment unterbesetzt understaffed unterbevölkert underpopulated unterbewerten underrate unterbewerten undervalue unterbewertet underrated Unterbewertung undervaluation unterbezahlen underpay unterbezahlt under-paid unterbezahlt underpaid unterbieten underbid unterbieten undercut unterbieten undersell Unterbietung underselling Unterbrechung interruption Unterbrechung der Geschäftstätigkeit interruption of business Unterbrechung der Geschäftstätigkeit interruption of the business Unterbrechung durch höhere Gewalt interruption by Acts of God Unterbrechung; Anhalten stoppage Unterbrechung; Einstellung discontinuation Unterbrechungspunkt break point unterbreiten; vorlegen submit unterbringen accommodate Unterbringung bei einer Bank bank accommodation Unterbringungsmöglichkeiten; Unterkunft accommodation facilities unterbrochen; eingestellt discontinued Unter-dem-Tisch-Verkauf under-the-counter sales Unterdrückung suppression untere Führungsebene lower management untere Paritätsgrenze lower limit of parity untere Schublade lower drawer unterentwickelt underdeveloped unterentwickeltes Gebiet underdeveloped area unterentwickeltes Land underdeveloped country unterer Mittelstand lower middle classes untergeordnet ancillary untergeordnetes Unternehmen controlled company Untergewicht shortweight Untergewicht underweight Untergrundbahn; U-Bahn underground railroad Unterhalt zahlen; Alimente Zahlen to pay alimony Unterhalt; Lebensunterhalt living Unterhalt; Lebensunterhalt maintenance unterhalten; verköstigen entertain Unterhaltsklage action for support Unterhaltsklage maintenance claim Unterhaltungskosten cost of maintenance Unterhaltungskosten maintenance costs Unterkunft der Passagiere passenger accommodation
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

His head was bowed down upon his hands, and he pored, with a fiery unquiet eye, over a paper which I took to be a commission, and which, at all events, bore the signature of a monarch.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He alone then understood the meaning of the French army’s inactivity, he alone continued to assert that the battle of Borodinó had been a victory, he alone—who as commander in chief might have been expected to be eager to attack—employed his whole strength to restrain the Russian army from useless engagements.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The difficulty was raised by the clashing of a notion commonly held, and a fact universally experienced.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

About noon we had still fine weather and the enemy standing away from us, except one ship, which did not seem injured, and paraded to windward, as if with the intention of giving some of us disabled ships a brush.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

“An’ Faith upholds every word of it, an’ thinks ’at a woman ’at has a husband ’oo can respect an’ look up to, ’ll ma’ no bones about obeyin’ him in all things lawful.”
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

A diner, knife and fork upright, elbows on table, ready for a second helping stared towards the foodlift across his stained square of newspaper.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

“Didst now?” asked Fuller, unctuously enjoying the young man's discomfort.
— from Aunt Rachel A Rustic Sentimental Comedy by David Christie Murray

she's fond of nothing, but playing the vixen; there is not such a fury upon earth.
— from A Bold Stroke for a Husband: A Comedy in Five Acts by Hannah Cowley

The butterfly net also fell upon evil days, for the donkey which carried it began to roll one evening before its load was removed, and [79] the apparatus was utterly smashed.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

“A fairly unenviable existence, eh?”
— from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

He preached a sound taste and a free, unconstrained enjoyment of the things of this beautiful earth.
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden