He had not one man with him that looked like a man; his guards and all his forces consisted wholly of Bassarides, Evantes, Euhyades, Edonides, Trietherides, Ogygiae, Mimallonides, Maenades, Thyades, and Bacchae, frantic, raving, raging, furious, mad women, begirt with live snakes and serpents instead of girdles, dishevelled, their hair flowing about their shoulders, with garlands of vine-branches instead of forehead-cloths, clad with stag’s or goat’s skins, and armed with torches, javelins, spears, and halberds whose ends were like pineapples.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Bayou Bœuf is a sluggish, winding stream—one of those stagnant bodies of water common in that region, setting back from Red River.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

All Bills for Raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

V. be loud &c. adj.; peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar; resound &c. 408.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The distinguishing characteristic of ether light-waves is their extreme rapidity of vibration, which has been calculated to range from 700 billion movements per second for violet rays to 400 billion for red rays.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Reserven in fremder Währung foreign exchange reserves Reservenbildung accumulation of a reserve Reservetage spare days reservieren reserve reservieren; Reserve reserve reservierte Haltung bearish attitude Reservierung reservation resolut resolute Respekttage; 3 Tage Gnade days of respite Respekttage; Verzugstage days of grace Rest; Restbestand remainder Restbetrag remainder Restbetrag remaining amount restlich residual Restposten odd lot restriktive Kreditpolitik restrictive credit policy Reststück; Restbestand; Übrigbleibsel oddment Restzahlung final payment Restzeit balanced time Restzeit unoccupied cycle time Restzeit; Leerlaufzeit balance time Resultate findings Retrozession retrocession retten save returnierter Scheck; verweigerter Scheck returned cheque Revision audit Revision revision Revisionsbeamter comptroller Revolverblatt gutter paper Revolverblatt yellow journal Rezeption reception Rezession recession Rezession; Konjunkturrückgang recession R-Gespräch collect call Richter judge Richter; beurteilen judge richterlich; gerichtlich judicial Richtlinie guideline Richtlinie guiding principle Richtlinien instructions Richtlinien und Gebräuche customs and practice Richtlinien; Leitsätze principles Richtpreis orientation price Ring ring Risiko hazard Risiko risk Risiko des Eigentümers owner's risk Risiko; Gefahr hazard Risikoabschätzung risk estimate Risikoausschaltung eliminination of risk Risikokapital venture capital Risikoprämie premium for risk Risikoverteilung diversification of risks riskant risky riskant; gefährlich hazardous riskantes Geschäft risky business riskantes Unternehmen; Spekulation adventure riskieren; Risiko risk Rivale rival Rivale; Konkurrent rival Rohbilanz rough balance Rohdaten crude data Rohmaterial raw material Rohmateriallagerung storage of raw material Rohprodukt raw product Rohstoffindustrie extractive industry Rohstoffmärkte commodity markets Rohstoffquellen natural resources Rolle des Schiedsrichters; des Vermittlers task of arbitrator rollendes Inventar rolling stock Rollenspiel role playing Rollgeld cartage Rollgeld cost of cartage Ro-Ro Verkehr roll-on roll-off traffic Rotation rotation rotieren rotate Routine routine Routineangelegenheit routine job Routinearbeit routine work Routineberechnung routine calculation Routinetätigkeit; Routineaufgabe routine job rüchständiges Gebiet backward area Rückantwortkarte business reply card Rückantwortschein reply coupon rückdatieren backdate rückerstatten; Rückerstattung refund Rückerstattung reimbursement Rückerstattung verlangen to claim refund Rückfall backslide Rückfall relapse rückfällig werden slide back rückfinanzieren refinance Rückfinanzierung refinancing Rückflug return flight Rückforderung reclamation Rückfracht back freight Rückfracht return freight Rückfrage further inquiry Rückfrage; Anfrage query Rückführung repatriation Rückgabegarantie money back guarantee Rückgang downward movement Rückgang drop Rückgang fall Rückgang der Gewinne reduction in profits rückgängig machen countermand Rückgriff recourse Rückgriff auf den Auftraggeber recourse to drawer Rückgriff auf gutgläubige Inhaber recourse to bona fide holders Rückgriffsrecht right of recourse Rückkauf repurchase Rückkauf von Aktien redemption of stock Rückkaufwert repurchase value Rückkaufwert surrender value Rückkopplung feedback Rückkopplung; Feedback feedback Rücklagen reserves for contingencies Rücklagen für Dubiose reserve for bad debts rückläufig; fallend declining Rücklieferung sales return Rücknahmepreis redemption price Rückprämie premium for the put Rückprämie put premium Rückprämiengeschäft put option Rückprämienkurs price of put Rückreise return journey Rückruf call-back Rückschein advice of delivery Rückschein return receipt rückschreitend retrograde Rückseite back Rückseite des Wechsels back of the bill Rückseite eines Dokuments back Rückseite eines Dokuments reverse side Rücksendung return consignment Rücksendung von Leergut return of empties Rücksendungen returns Rückspesen back charges Rückstand arrear Rückstand backlog Rückstand in der Bearbeitung der
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The bell, furious, running riot, presented to the two walls of the tower alternately its brazen throat, whence escaped that tempestuous breath, which is audible leagues away.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

A machine as such, he says, will bring forth right results when it is in good order, and wrong results if out of repair.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

system re-vinciô, -îre, -vînxî, -vînctus [ re- , back , + vinciô , bind ], fasten rêx, rêgis , m.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Israel misinterpreted his righteous indignation at the cruel and lustful rites of the Canaanitish religion as a divine summons to destroy the worship by putting the worshipers to death; a people undeveloped in moral judgment could not distinguish between formal regulations respecting camp-life and eternal principles of righteousness, such as, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, but embodied them in the same code, and seemed to regard them as of equal authority. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

The language finally employed was, “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The bell for rising rings before seven o’clock in the morning.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

"Thar's one thing sartin," spoke up "Shavings" Magoon, "ef Jim Bell's got ther means ter git an aerial gold line he'll be safe enough frum them ornery road agents like ther fellers thet stuck up ther Laredo stage only last week an' got away with the specie box from Red River Falls.
— from The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

Then a big fat rabbit ran directly across their path.
— from The Rover Boys on a Hunt; or, The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer

And I'm so glad you decided upon giving them two of the big front rooms, Ruthie.
— from The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

I did have a room, you know, blame fine room, running water, hot and cold, and all that sort of thing, three dollars a week.
— from Peeps at People by Robert Cortes Holliday

By interference-experiments, on which I cannot touch here but which will be found roughly represented [Pg 328] in Figure 55, it was found that the bell-shaped head-wave in question is an extremely thin shell and that the condensations of the same are quite moderate, scarcely exceeding two-tenths of an atmosphere.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach