When the army of the enemy, having destroyed and dispersed the natives, had returned home to their own [pg 032] settlements, 89 the Britons began by degrees to take heart, and gather strength, sallying out of the lurking places where they had concealed themselves, and with one accord imploring the Divine help, that they might not utterly be destroyed.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It is not by the force of long attention and inquiry that we find any object to be beautiful; beauty demands no assistance from our reasoning; even the will is unconcerned; the appearance of beauty as effectually causes some degree of love in us, as the application of ice or fire produces the ideas of heat or cold.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Buches abstract of a book Auszug; Kurzfassung; Extrakt digest Auszug; Volkswirt extract autark self-sufficient authentisch; echt genuine authentisieren to authenticate Automat slot mashine Automat; Warenautomat vending machine Automation; Automatisierung automation automatisch automatic automatisch self-controlled automatische Fabrik push button factory automatisieren automate automatisieren automatize automatisierte Systeme automated systems Automatisierung automation Automobilindustrie motor industry autorisiertes Kapital authorized capital Autorität authority Autoschalter drive-in counter Aval surety for payment Avis; Ankündigung letter of advice Avis; Benachrichtigung advice Avis; Versandanzeige advice note avisieren to advise B Babynahrung baby food Bäckerladen baker's shop Bäckerladen bakery Bahnhof railway station Bahnhofswerbung railway station advertising bahnmäßig verpackt packed for railway transport Bahntransport carriage by rail Baisse bear market Baisse slump Baisse; Wirtschaftskrise depression Baissemarkt bearish market Baissespekulant bear Baisse-Spekulant bear Baissespekulation bearish speculation Baissetendenz bearish tendency baldige Rückantwort early answer Balkendiagramm bar chart Ballast ballast Ballast dead freight Ballen bale Ballonwerbung; Sprechblasenwerbung balloon advertising Ballungsgebiet; Ballungszentrum overcrowded area Band tape Bandproduktion line production Bank bank bank die Dienste einer anderen Bank nutzen to utilise the services of another Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich Bank for International Settlement Bank spezialisiert in Wechselakzept (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

I shall be back by dinner.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

They glowered with bent brows, but dangerously, upon some of the officers, more particularly upon the red-bearded one with the voice of triple brass.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

hukùhúkù v [B46; b3] be doubled over in suppressed laughter.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Gerold , Rev. G. L., was a rabbinical student in Breslau, baptized by Dr. Stern in the year of his death, graduated at Cambridge, was ordained in 1898, and is now Rector of Easthope, Much Wenlock, Salop, in the diocese of Hereford.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

And surely that which is begun by breaking down the barriers of virtue involves in its continuance destruction to every principle, and buries all sentiments in ruin!
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

NA HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA Nationality: noun: Nauruan(s) adjective: Nauruan Ethnic groups: Nauruan 58%, other Pacific Islander 26%, Chinese 8%, European 8% Religions: Christian (two-thirds Protestant, one-third Roman Catholic) Languages: Nauruan (official, a distinct Pacific Island language), English widely understood, spoken, and used for most government and commercial purposes Literacy: definition: NA total population: NA% male: NA% female: NA% Nauru Government Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Nauru conventional short form: Nauru former: Pleasant Island Government type: republic Capital: no official capital; government offices in Yaren District Administrative divisions: 14 districts; Aiwo, Anabar, Anetan, Anibare, Baiti, Boe, Buada, Denigomodu, Ewa, Ijuw, Meneng, Nibok, Uaboe, Yaren Independence: 31 January 1968 (from the Australia-, NZ-, and UK-administered UN trusteeship)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

They kept 'im there all the rest o' the day, and, as 'e was still obstinate when bedtime came, Mrs. Dixon, who wasn't to be beat, brought down some bedclothes and 'ad a bed made up for 'im on the sofa.
— from Odd Craft, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

and this bombarding Calais gives me the Bl—— Blu—— Blue Devils.’
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ashton

Another boy, bigger, but dirtier and tougher looking than either of the two, had come up behind them unobserved.
— from Nibsy's Christmas by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The numerical weakness will be balanced by daring actions and surprise execution.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

As yet the wind was no more than a fair breeze, but by degrees it became boisterous, and the crew, still weak and now short of three men, could barely manage the schooner.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

“Well, uncle,” cried the president when he saw the des Grassins disappearing, “I began by being de Bonfons, and I have ended as nothing but Cruchot.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead to be buried by day-light, the nights not sufficing to do it in.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

The vote on the passing of the bill was 27 to 12, the yeas being: Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barnwell, Bell, Berrien, Butler, Davis of Miss., Dawson, Dodge of Iowa, Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, Jones of Iowa, King, Mangum, Mason, Pearce, Rusk, Sebastian, Soulé, Spruance, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood, Wales, and Yulee.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton