It seems to me, in contemplating the history of the past two years, that all the people of our country, North, South, East, and West, have been undergoing a salutary political schooling, learning lessons which might have been acquired from the experience of other people; but we had all become so wise in our own conceit that we would only learn by actual experience of our own.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

We see still more plainly the obscurity of the subject by turning to plants, amongst which the standard of intellect is, of course, quite excluded; and here some botanists rank those plants as highest which have every organ, as sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, fully developed in each flower; whereas other botanists, probably with more truth, look at the plants which have their several organs much modified and reduced in number as the highest.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

when there was somebody—but no—don't let us talk of old times"; and she passed her handkerchief with the tattered lace across her eyelids. "Is not this a strange place," she continued, "for a woman, who has lived in a very different world too, to be found in?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Dear madam, may a serious person surprise you by saying a few cheering words?”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The cuadrillero finding himself so disrespectfully treated by such a sorry-looking individual, lost his temper, and raising the lamp full of oil, smote Don Quixote such a blow with it on the head that he gave him a badly broken pate; then, all being in darkness, he went out, and Sancho Panza said, "That is certainly the enchanted Moor, Senor, and he keeps the treasure for others, and for us only the cuffs and lamp-whacks."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Staatssicherheit safety of the state Staatsvermögen national property Staatsverschuldung national debt Staatswissenschaft political economics Stab der Außendienstmitarbeiter field staff Stab der Außenmitarbeiter field force Stab der Verkäufer im Außendienst field sales force stabil stable stabile Währung stable money stabilisieren stabilize Stabilisierung stabilization Stabilisierung der Preise stabilization of prices Stabilität stabilty Stabilitätsanalyse analysis of stability Stadt London City of London Stadtbevölkerung town population Stadtbevölkerung urban population Stadtbezirk urban district Stadterneuerung urban renewal Stadtgebiet urban area Stadtgrenzen city limits Stadthaus town house städtisch urban städtische Behörde municipal authority städtische Verkehrsmittel city transportation städtische Verordnung bye-law Stadtplaner city planner Staffelung differentiation Staffelung sliding scale Staffelung; Einordnung grading Stagflation stagflation Stagnation stagnation stagnierend stagnant stagnierender Absatz stagnation of sales Stahlband steel strapping Stahlindustrie steel industry Stahlkammer safe vault Stahlkammer strong-room Stahlkammer vault Stahlmöbel steel furniture Stammaktie ordinary share Stammaktien common shares Stammaktien common stock Stammaktien common stocks Stammaktien equities Stammaktien ordinaries Stammaktien erstklassiger Firmen blue chips Stammaktienzertifikat stock certificate Stammaktionär ordinary shareholder Stammeinlage primary deposit Stammkunde patron Stammkunde registered customer Stammkunde regular customer Stammkundschaft patronage Stand stall Stand stand Stand der Dinge stage of affairs standaradisierter Fragebogen standardized questionnaire Standard standard Standard der Ausführung standard performance Standardabweichung standard deviation Standardartikel standardized product Standardausführung standard make Standardballen standard bale Standardgewicht standard weight Standardgröße standard size standardisieren standardize standardisiertes Produkt standaradized product Standardisierung standardisation Standardisierung standardization Standardisierung von Produkten standardization of products Standardleistung standard performance Standardlohnsatz standard wage rate Standardwerte barometer stocks Standardzeit; Vorgabezeit standard time Standardzeitwert für eine Bewegung motion time standard Stand-by Letter of Credit stand-by credit ständig gebraucht in constant requisition ständiger Ausschuss standing committee ständiges Büro permanent office Standort location Standort der Industrie location of industry Standpunkt point of view Standpunkt standpoint Stapel batch stapeln von Ware piling of stock Stapelware staple goods Stapelware nachbestellen; gängige Ware to re-order staple goods stark angeboten freely offered stark favorisierte Aktien high flyers starke Nachfrage keen demand starker Kursanstieg sharp rise starker Rückgang sharp fall starkes
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

In the center of the inner circle, on a spacious platform six feet high, I’ve grouped a battery of thirteen gatling guns, and provided plenty of ammunition.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

" WHEREAS, We believe in the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution of the United States, and that a true republic is the best form of government in the world; and whereas , This government is false to its underlying principles in denying to women the only means of self-government, the ballot; and one-half of the citizens of this nation, after a century of boasted liberty, are still political slaves; therefore Resolved , That we protest against calling the present centennial a celebration of the independence of the people of the United States.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Mr. Fairlie complimented me on my "excellent conscience," much as he would have complimented me, if he had been out walking, on my "excellent constitution," and seemed perfectly satisfied, so far, with having simply shifted one more family responsibility from his own shoulders to mine.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

After a slight pause, she said, as though she had often pondered the subject, "Yes, hope deferred, they say, maketh the heart sick.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill

There we were with the mighty forces of the insensate world around, so pitiless, so silently cruel, it seemed to my city-bred soul.
— from A Woman Tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

He concluded that its character had changed somewhat, that the swells were high than they had been, and he was hopeful that he might find shelter soon, a deep gully, perhaps, or a shallow prairie stream with sheltering cottonwoods along its course.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

In her joy at seeing Peter she had forgotten that the errand that had brought her was an errand of life and death—life and death for her brother!
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

Both stared at Anina curiously as she passed slowly by, but they said nothing.
— from The Fire People by Ray Cummings

But what proof does he give of this?—no 460 other than the assertion that "the most desert moors in Norway and Scotland produce some sort of pasture for cattle, of which the milk and the increase are always more than sufficient, not only to maintain all the labour necessary for tending them, and to pay the ordinary profit to the farmer, or owner of the herd or flock, but to afford some small rent to the landlord."
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

To prejudice or haste, to self-conceit or ambition, she proudly shuts her treasuries—to open them to men of humble heart, whom this world thinks simple dreamers—her Newtons, and Owens, and Faradays.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley

"Quite easy ," he answers, in a strangely contented tone, with such a tender caress in it that Grace starts; and as he falters "good-by," she bends with a sudden impulse and just touches her lips to his in a pure thrill of sisterly affection and grief; his glance lifts to hers an instant and remains fixed; a quivering sigh, a scarcely perceptible shudder, and Willard Clendenon's spirit has flown out of the earthly heaven of her arms to the higher heaven of his soul.
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.