Abkürzungen some abbreviations in common use einige zentral gelegene Banken a few centrally located banks einigermaßen in some degree Einkassierung encashment Einkauf zu geringer Mengen underpurchasing Einkauf zu großer Mengen overpurchasing Einkaufen shopping Einkäufer purchasing agent Einkäufer; Einkaufsmakler buying agent Einkaufsabrechnung des Kommissionärs account purchases Einkaufsabteilung buying department Einkaufsbeutel; Einkaufstasche shopping bag Einkaufsgenossenschaft buying association Einkaufsgenossenschaft purchasing association Einkaufsgenossenschaft purchasing cooperative society Einkaufsgewohnheiten buying habits Einkaufsgewohnheiten shopping habits Einkaufshäufigkeit frequency of purchase Einkaufskartell purchasing cartel Einkaufskontrolle checking of purchases Einkaufsplan purchasing budget Einkaufsprovision purchasing commission Einkaufsring buying club Einkaufstasche shopping-bag Einkaufsverhalten buying behaviour Einkaufszentrum buying centre Einkaufszentrum shopping centre Einkaufszentrum;
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Besides the prospect of this gloomy enjoyment, he was urged to return to England, by an eager desire of taking vengeance on the perfidious Fathom, as well as of acquitting himself of the obligations he owed in that kingdom, to those who had assisted him in his distress.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For if the smallest empirical element of thought, if any particular perception of my internal state, were to be introduced among the grounds of cognition of this science, it would not be a rational, but an empirical doctrine of the soul.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The ascent into the tower is by an exceeding deep flight of steep steps, four feet and a half wide, on the south side leading to a low doorway, over which is a circular arch crossed by a great transom stone.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

A light was burning, and each damsel was sitting up whitely in her bed, awaiting Tess, the whole like a row of avenging ghosts.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

ases one or two dozen of these blanks, and every day dips one of them in his soup, makes his dog jump for it, and finally gives it to him as a bonne bouche.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Originally, the ‘tædæ’ seem to have been slips or lengths of resinous pine wood: while the ‘fax’ was formed of a bundle of wooden staves, either bound by a rope drawn round them in a spiral form, or surrounded by circular bands at equal distances.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Or as some fierce lion upon the mountains in the pride of his strength fastens on the finest heifer in a herd as it is feeding—first he breaks her neck with his strong jaws, and then gorges on her blood and entrails; dogs and shepherds raise a hue and cry against him, but they stand aloof and will not come close to him, for they are pale with fear—even so no one had the courage to face valiant Menelaus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

His steps were traced off the road a few yards into the bush, and entirely disappeared at the foot of a large oak tree.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

” by Adolphe Belot and Ernest Daudet—the brother of Alphonse Daudet—in collaboration.
— from Theresa Raquin by Émile Zola

Also, an imaginary right line passing through the middle of a ship perpendicularly to its base, and equally distant from its sides;—an imaginary line passing through the centre of a gun's bore, parallel with its position.—
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

Educated to maintain the icy manners, the Britannic and egotistic deportment which I described to you, she opens and shuts her heart with the ease of a British mechanism.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The names of those their nobles that lie dead: Charles Delabreth, High Constable of France; Jacques of Chatillon, Admiral of France; The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures; Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dauphin, John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant, The brother to the Duke of Burgundy, And Edward Duke of Bar; of lusty earls, Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix, Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.
— from The Life of King Henry V by William Shakespeare

The king had come to Peronne on the faith of his safe-conduct; it would be an eternal dishonor for the house of Burgundy if he broke his word to his sovereign lord; and the conditions which the king was prepared to grant would put an end, with advantage to Burgundy, to serious and difficult business.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by François Guizot

Three days of heavy rain passed by, and Elmer did not appear at the store or any house.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

Their principal instrument is the bimbam , an elongated drum, played upon with any convenient article, such as an elephant's tusk or the bone of an ancestor.
— from Bizarre by Lawton Mackall