You are truly splendid, noble, and sublime, my poet, my beloved, light of my eyes, flame of my heart, life of my life!
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

To have any thing offered them repugnant to this desire, must needs in all respects grieve them as much as me; so that if I do harm, I must look to suffer, there being no reason that others should shew greater measure of love to me, than they have by me shewed unto them: my desire therefore to be loved of my equals in nature as much as possible may be, imposeth upon me a natural duty of bearing to them-ward fully the like affection; from which relation of equality between ourselves and them that are as ourselves, what several rules and canons natural reason hath drawn, for direction of life, no man is ignorant, Eccl.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Believe me I would give, Freely would give the broad lands of my earldom To look upon the face hidden by yon lattice— “To gaze upon that veiled face, and hear Once more that silent tongue.” Bal.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Ware kleiner ab a wholesaler breaks bulk ein Grundstück belasten mit to burden an estate with ein Grundstück beleihen lend on mortgage ein Gutachten liefern to deliver expert opinion ein Handelspapier a document of commercial character ein
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

I pulled off her kerchief and kissed it, beside myself with rapture; for some moments I was almost frantic.... Hardly able to breathe, leaning on my elbow on the grass, I stared unconsciously before me at the surrounding slopes, streaked with cornfields, at the river that flowed twisting and winding far away, as far as the eye could see, between fresh hills and villages that gleamed like dots all over the sunlit distance—at the dark-blue, hardly visible forests, which seemed as though smoking at the edge of the burning sky, and a sweet stillness inspired by the triumphant peacefulness of the picture gradually brought calm to my troubled heart.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And thou, O Boabdil, light of my eyes!
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving

They must be like other men, enemies to their enemies, friends to their friends; and as I mean to treat them well, I don’t see why I should fear them.”
— from Winnetou, the Apache Knight by Karl May

There are some that no hand but mine ever touches, and those are by far the best loved of my eye."
— from Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner

No one made a sound, nor no one spoke, but like one man everyone in the room reached for his revolver.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis

ey on an insurance policy eine Versicherungspolice beleihen lend money on securities Wertpapiere beleihen lend on mortgage ein Grundstück beleihen lend on pawn gegen ein Pfand Geld leihen lend to sb jemandem leihen lendable beleihbar lender Kreditgeber, Darlehnsgeber lender of capital Kapitalgeber lender of last resort Kreditgeber letzter Instanz lending institute Geldinstitut lending limit
— from Mr. Honey's Small Banking Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

“And boiled legs of mutton, eh?” “Yes, with caper-sauce.” “Capital.
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton

But late on Monday evening came a note from Neville to ask if Kathie could be ready for Wednesday.
— from The Old Pincushion; or, Aunt Clotilda's Guests by Mrs. Molesworth

I sot up in bed, leanin on my elbers and rubbin my eyes, and I saw the follerin picter: The Elder stood in the doorway, with a taller candle in his hand.
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (HTML edition) by Artemus Ward

You can always soften the water by putting a very little carbonate of soda in it, to counteract the extreme hardness of the water, which is caused by lime or mineral elements.
— from A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery by Juliet Corson