' In fact, Mr Fledgeby sped on his errand of mercy through the streets, at so brisk a rate that his feet might have been winged by all the good spirits that wait on Generosity.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

"After a silence, Babaji added, 'Repeat to each of your disciples this majestic promise from the Bhagavad Gita: "Swalpamasya Dharmasya, Trayata Mahato Bhoyat" -"Even a little bit of the practice of this religion will save you from dire fears and colossal sufferings.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

sich bewerben make an application sich beziehen auf refer to sich daraus ergebende Streitigkeit subsequent dispute sich dauernd wiederholend continual sich der Dienste einer anderen Bank bedient uses the services of another bank sich der Fertigstellung nähern nearing the completion sich der Mehrheit anschließen join the majority sich einem Kartell anschließen join a cartel sich eines guten Rufes erfreuen enjoy a good reputation sich einigen to come to an understanding sich einigen to come to terms sich einigen; einen Vergleich schließen to come to a mutual agreement sich einigen; übereinkommen come to an agreement sich einkaufen buy into sich einmischen interfere sich entschädigen recoup sich entschuldigen apologize sich ereignen occur sich ergänzende Lebensmittel complementary food sich ergebend aus ihrer Nichtbefolgung arising from their failing sich erholen recover sich erneuernder Kredit revolving credit sich etablieren establish sich etablieren establish oneself sich frei nehmen take a day off sich für Auslagen sofort zu erholen promptly to recover outlays sich gegenseitig ergänzend; komplimentär complimentary sich gut verkaufen sell well sich hieraus ergebende Kosten costs resulting from this sich hieraus ergebende Verzögerungen delays resulting from this sich
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

It strengthens the heart, stomach, and liver, takes away heart-qualms, faintings, and stinking breath, and resists the dropsy.
— 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

If he could by any means therefore persuade the young gentleman to return home, he doubted not but that he should again be received into the favour of Allworthy, and well rewarded for his pains; nay, and should be again restored to his native country; a restoration which Ulysses himself never wished more heartily than poor Partridge.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

But to defy the world is a serious business, and requires the greatest courage, even if the defiance touch in the first place only the world's ideals.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He that put out to Sea vexed all the Maritime Coasts with his cruel Incursions; now some inhabitants of the Kingdom of Jucatan which is seated in the way to the Kingdoms of Naco and Naymura , to which places he steered his course, came to meet him with burthens of Presents and Gifts: and as soon as he approacht them, sent his Captains with a party of Soldiers to depopulate their Land, who committed great spoils and made cruel slaughters among them; and in particular a Seditious and Rebellious Officer who with three hundres Soldiers entred a Neighboring Country to Guatimala , and there firing the Cities and Murdering all the Inhabitants, violently deprived them of all their goods, which he did designedly, for the space of an hundred and twenty miles; to the end that if his Companions should follow them, they might find the Country laid wast, and so be destroyed by the Indians in revenge for the dammage they had received by him and his Forces which hapned accordingly: for the Chief Commander whose order the abovesaid Captain had disobey'd and so became a Rebel to him, was there slain.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Now I heard that the Higo clan had privately sent messengers to Wakamatsu to endeavour to effect a reconciliation between Aidzu and the daimiôs of the west and south, but Aidzu replied that matters had gone too far, and the questions at issue must be decided by the sword.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The idea that returned the oftenest was that Miss Crawford, after proving herself cooled and staggered by a return to London habits, would yet prove herself in the end too much attached to him to give him up.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

"The scheme promises well, and shall be adopted," replied the hag; "but suppose Richard himself should appear first on the scene.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

The respective developments of the human and simian brains are referred to.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

As each couple file in at the door, the gentleman takes his partner to a seat, bows and retires to his own side, for the ladies and gentlemen are seated separately, modestly looking at each other now and then, the lads really infinitely more shy than the lasses.
— from Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables

A similar belief, as regards the ill luck, prevails in China to this day; nothing will induce a Chinaman to help a drowning man from the water.
— from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang

“Disease is not entity to be killed by a shot from a professional gun, but a condition, an effort of outraged nature to free itself from an incumbrance, and should be aided rather than hindered by the administration of any nerve irritant.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

While the stout-hearted old Sea-king, in compliance with this request, got into a small boat and rowed to his own vessel, Erling gave particular directions to his chief house-carle to keep a sharp lookout and be ready to act at a moment’s notice.
— from Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

60:21 Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

In his day, the impressions not only respecting man and society, but also respecting the physical world, were of this same self-sown, self-propagating, and unscientific character.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote