But not being much versed in these matters, as soon as they went beyond a certain limit he wrote to Monsieur Boulard, bookseller to Monsignor, to send him “something good for a lady who was very clever.”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

[7] See "Memoirs of a House of the Dead," by Dostoiewsky (translation by Marie von Thilo: "Buried Alive").—TR.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This tendency clings to them afterwards, so that the knowledge of many learned men becomes mere verbosity.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

‘My dear Strong,’ said Mr. Wickfield in a tremulous voice, ‘my good friend, I needn’t tell you that it has been my vice to look for some one master motive in everybody, and to try all actions by one narrow test.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But my vengeance has recoiled on myself.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

But Miss Verinder saw me leave the room again, with the jewel in my hand.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Mialipatpat (nangalipatpat) ang ákung panan-aw sa dúgay nákung binása, My vision became blurred from reading too long.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nichtakzeptierung advice of non-acceptance Meldung über Nichtzahlung advice of non-payment Menge bulk Menge quanity Menge der Exporte quantity of exports Menge der Importe quantity of imports Menge Geld great deal of money Mengenabnahme quantity buying Mengenberechnung quantity calculation Mengenbezeichnung quantity description Mengeneinheit unit of quantity mengenmäßig quantitative mengenmäßiger Umsatz quantity turnover Mengenprämie quantity bonus Mengenrabatt quantity discount Mengentarif beanspruchen to obtain quantity rates menschlich human menschliche Arbeitskraft manpower menschliche Beziehungen human relations menschliche Leistung performance menschliche Note human touch Merkmal; Beurteilungsmerkmal characteristic Merkmal; Hauptmerkmal feature Merkmale der Gefahren; Auflistung der Risiken particulars of the risk Merkmale der Testgruppe sample characteristics Merktenge narrowness of the market Merkzettel leaflet Messe fair Messe am Ort local fair Messeausweis fair pass Messebesucher fairgoer Messebesucher visitor to a fair Messebesucher visitors to the fair Messebetreuerin fair hostess Messeende end of fair Messeführer fair guide Messegelände; Kirchweihgelände fairground Messekatalog fair catalog messen; bemessen; Maß measure Messen; Vermessen measuring Messestand stand Meßgenauigkeit accuracy of measurement Meßgerät measuring device Messpunkt breakpoint Meßpunkt reading point Messung der Arbeit work measurement Meßziffer index number Metallabfälle scrap metal Methode der kleinsten Quadrate least-squares method Methodenzuschuss process allowance Metzgerladen butcher's shop meuternde Mannschaft mutinous crew miderwertig of minor value mies; unlauter; gemein mean Mietausfall loss of rent Mietbedingungen terms of hire Miete rent Miete; Pacht rental mieten hire mieten oder kaufen lease or buy Mieten von Anlagen leasing mieten; anheuern hire mieten; pachten; Miete; Pacht rent Mieter tenant Mieter eines Schiffes charterer Mieter eines Tresorfaches hirer of a safe Mietkauf hire purchase Mietkauf; Kauf auf Raten hire purchase Mietkaufsystem hire purchase system Mietkaufvertrag hire purchase agreement Mietrückstand; Pachtrückstand arrears of rent Mietvertrag hiring contract Mietvertrag tenancy agreement Mietwert rent value Mikrochronometer; Stoppuhr microchronometer Mikrofilm microfilm Mikroökonomie microeconomics Milchgeschäft; Molkerei creamery Milchladen dairy Milchladen milk shop Milchmann dairy man Milchwagen dairy van mildere Bestrafung milder punishment Militärbasis military base Militärdienst military service Militärtetat military budget mindere Ware poor stuff Mindereinnahmen deficiency in receipts Minderheitenaktionäre minority shareholders Minderheitengruppe minority group Minderheitsbeteiligung minority holding minderjährig under age Minderung decrease Minderung der Einkünfte decline in earnings Minderung des Gewichts; Gewichtsverlust reduction of weight Minderung des Preises; Preisnachlass reduction of price Minderung des Verbrauchs decrease in consumption Minderung des Wertes reduction of value minderwertig inferior
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

"Why did God punish not only the guilty pair, but also the innocent unborn generations?" Master was more amused by my vehemence than my ignorance. "
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

When Vanslyperken’s cabin door was found to be locked, it was determined that Smallbones should not appear as a supernatural visitant that night, but wait till the one following; consequently the parties retired to bed, and Smallbones, who found the heat between decks very oppressive, had crept up the ladder and taken a berth in the small boat, that he might sleep cool and comfortable, intending to be down below again long before Mr Vanslyperken was up; but, as the reader knows, Mr Vanslyperken was up before him, and the consequence was that Smallbones went down into the sea instead of the lower deck, as he had intended.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

Where there has been commutation we must suppose that the labour services cannot have been more valuable than the money rent into which they were changed.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

A Roman Catholic deputation informed his Highness that for eight months the members of the Ancient Church had been forbidden all religious exercises, saving baptism, marriage, visitation of the sick, and burials.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Crane , sb. crane (bird), MD, Voc.; kranes , pl. , MD; crennis , S3; cronez , MD.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Martins, the birds of the twilight, which fly in flocks above the houses, describing circles and uttering shrill cries, are usually infested by many vermin, among which we find a fly of considerable size, which looks much like a spider, the Ornithomya hirundinis .
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden

But if a man should seeke out where all those [Page 231] church lands were, which in time past did contribute vnto the old summe required or to be made vp, no doubt no small number of the laitie of all states should be contributors also with vs, the prince not defrauded of his expectation and right.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

p. 5: You wouldn’t mind being Mrs. Verinder, would you.—Changed period to a question mark.
— from A Fool's Paradise: An Original Play in Three Acts by Sydney Grundy

Brockway methods, viii, 72.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

For this reason the tremendous effort put forth by Mr. von Osten, is not, in spite of the self-deception under which he labors, lost to science.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst