I was seventy miles from home, with a carriage to take back, and Mr. Payne said he did not know that his horse had ever had a collar on.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Is there a Parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin Poetess, a rhyming Peer,
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Now it is only in a pure philosophy that we can look for the moral law in its purity and genuineness (and, in a practical matter, this is of the utmost consequence): we must, therefore, begin with pure philosophy (metaphysic), and without it there cannot be any moral philosophy at all.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Produktes particulars of a new product beschützen protect beschützend protective Beschwerde complaint Beschwerde grievance Beschwerdeausschuß board of complaint Beschwerdeausschuss grievance committee Beschwerdebrief letter of complaint Beschwerdeführer; Kläger claimant beschwerlich burdensome beschwerlich onerous beschwerliche Pflichten burdensome duties besetzen; bewohnen; innehaben occupy Besichtigungsfahrt sightseeing tour Besichtigungsreise tour of inspection Besitz possession besitzen own besitzen possess Besitzer der Aktienmehrheit majority stockholder Besitzwechsel change in ownership besondere Abweichungen particular variations besondere Fachkenntnisse specialized knowledge besondere Gründe specific reasons besondere Havarie particular average besondere Rechtsvorschriften special provisions of law besondere Risiken special risks besondere Sozialleistungen fringe benefits besondere Vorzugsaktien (US) debenture stock besonderer Handelsbrauch custom of the particular trade besonderer Handelsbrauch particular custom besonderer Schutz individual protection besonderer und zusätzlicher Schadensanspruch special damage besonderer Verrechnungsvermerk special crossing Besonderheit; Spezialität specialty besonders particular besonders specific besonders groß king size besonders markierter Scheck marked cheque besonders zu beachten ist attention should be paid to besorgen; ausstatten mit provide with Besprechung conference Besserung betterment Besserung improvement Bestallungsurkunde; Berufungsurkunde certificate of appointment Bestand an Diskontwechseln discount holdings Bestand aufnehmen take stock beständig constant beständige Preise constant prices beständige Ursache von Reibungen constant source of friction Bestandsaufnahme inventory control Bestandskontrolle inventory control Bestandsvolumen; Umfang der Bestände volume of stocks Bestandteil element bestätigen confirm bestätigen; bescheinigen certify bestätigter Scheck certified cheque bestätigtes Akkreditiv confirmed letter of credit Bestätigung confirmation Bestätigung der Hinterlegung letter of deposit Bestätigung der Übereinstimmung certificate of conformity Bestätigung der Übereinstimmung der
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Many of them taking wives from the degraded but aboriginal races in their neighbouring retreats, have begot a mixed progeny, who, in describing themselves, unite the tribes of father and mother.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

And Janetta's brave but sensitive little face, with its resolute brows and lips and brilliant eyes, gave promise of a determination and an originality which, he felt convinced, would never allow her to become a mere plaything or appendage of a wealthy household, as Margaret Adair seemed to expect.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

[373] CHAPTER XIII PHILOSOPHICAL INTUITIONISM § 1. Is there, then, no possibility of attaining, by a more profound and discriminating examination of our common moral thought, to real ethical axioms—intuitive propositions of real clearness and certainty?
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

That homely King had two houses here and began to build a more pretentious palace, a design cut short by his infirmities, but for which Kew might have usurped the place of Windsor.
— from Kew Gardens With 24 full-page Illustrations in Colour by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

In April the division moved forward, and the brigade again marched past the Babi Bend, northward of Mushaidie to Beled Station, where we had a few days' halt and some of us shot a number of sandgrouse.
— from With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous

Parted with Sir H. Cholmly at White Hall, and there I took coach and took up my wife at Unthanke's, and so out for ayre, it being a mighty pleasant day, as far as Bow, and so drank by the way, and home, and there to my chamber till by and by comes Captain Cocke about business; who tells me that Mr. Bruncker is lost for ever, notwithstanding my Lord Bruncker hath advised with him, Cocke, how he might make a peace with the Duke of York and Chancellor, upon promise of serving him in the Parliament but Cocke says that is base to offer, and will have no success neither.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 57: September 1667 by Samuel Pepys

One day as Robinson happened to be washing the corridor with his beaver up, what he took for a small but aged man passed him, shambling stiffly, with joints stiffened by perpetual crucifixion and rheumatism, that had ensued from perpetually being wetted through.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

And I remember there were two little maids of fourteen and eleven, Ruhannah and Hannah, sweet and fresh as wild June roses, who showed me the tow cloth for our army which they were spinning, and blushed at my praise of their industry.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

So I rolled myself into a sort of cave, where I was high and dry; my bed was an old beam, and my pillow a heap of lath and plaster, and there I slept like a king."
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Haversham had noticed Peter's strange behaviour, and Mrs. Paragon had already told him the whole tale.
— from Peter Paragon: A Tale of Youth by John Palmer

The present policy of the Government is but a continuation of the same progressive change by a milder process.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Andrew Jackson