Walter, archdeacon of London, laid the first stone in the year 1197, William, of St. Mary church, then bishop of London, dedicated to the honour of Jesus Christ and his mother, the perpetual Virgin Mary, by the name of Domus Dei , and Beatæ Mariæ , extra Bishopsgate, in the parish of St. Buttolph; the bounds whereof, as appeareth by composition betwixt the parson and prior of the said hospital concerning tithes, beginneth at Berward’s lane toward the south, and extendeth in breadth to the parish of St. Leonard of Shoreditch towards the north; and in length, from the King’s street on the west to the bishop of London’s field, called Lollesworth, on the east.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Eighteen hundred of them, under General Hazen, were to take sixty pontoon boats, and under cover of night float by the pickets of the enemy at the north base of Lookout, down to Brown's Ferry, then land on the south side and capture or drive away the pickets at that point.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Jostling against clerks going to post the day's letters, and against counsel and attorneys going home to dinner, and against plaintiffs and defendants and suitors of all sorts, and against the general crowd, in whose way the forensic wisdom of ages has interposed a million of obstacles to the transaction of the commonest business of life; diving through law and equity, and through that kindred mystery, the street mud, which is made of nobody knows what and collects about us nobody knows whence or how—we only knowing in general that when there is too much of it we find it necessary to shovel it away—the lawyer and the law-stationer come to a rag and bottle shop and general emporium of much disregarded merchandise, lying and being in the shadow of the wall of Lincoln's Inn, and kept, as is announced in paint, to all whom it may concern, by one Krook.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

A little farther up Fifth Avenue, Beaufort appeared on his doorstep, darkly projected against a blaze of light, descended to his private brougham, and rolled away to a mysterious and probably unmentionable destination.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

"He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: 'Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee."
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

When my father had got so far,—what a blaze of light did the accounts of the Caesarian section, and of the towering geniuses who had come safe into the world by it, cast upon this hypothesis?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

On this basis of line drawing the development of art proceeded.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

that at the nuptials of Charles II. and the Infanta, “the Bishop of London declared them married in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and as far as they would go, every one had some.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Verkauf von Obligationen erworben debenture capital durch Verluste gemindertes Kapital impaired capital durch Vertragsbruch by breach durch Vorlage eines solchen Dokuments by presenting such a document Durchbruch breakthrough durchdringen penetrate Durchdringung penetration Durchfrachttransportpapier through document of transport Durchfuhr passage in transit durchführbar feasible durchführbar practicable Durchführbarkeit feasibility Durchführbarkeit practicability Durchführbarkeitsstudie feasibility study Durchführbarkeitsuntersuchung feasibility evaluation durchführen carry through Durchführung accomplishment Durchgangskonnossement through bill of lading Durchgangsverkehr through traffic Durchgangsverkehr transit traffic durchlaufende Gelder cash in transit durchlaufender Posten item in transit Durchlaufplan flow chart Durchlaufzeit door-to-door time Durchsatz throughput durchscheinen to show through Durchschlag carbon copy Durchschlag; Kopie carbon copy Durchschlagpapier flimsy paper Durchschnitt average Durchschnittberechnung averaging durchschnittlich at an average durchschnittliche Qualität fair quality Durchschnittsabnahme average decrement Durchschnittsalter mean age Durchschnittsauflage average circulation Durchschnittseinkommen average income Durchschnittsertrag average yield Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit average speed Durchschnittskapazität average capacity Durchschnittskosten average cost Durchschnittskunde average customer Durchschnittskurs market average Durchschnittsmensch average person Durchschnittspreis average price
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

With a frantic effort he spurned it from him; all in the same instant a blaze of lightning discovered the maimed form and black and red markings of a “bastard hornsnake,” and with one piercing wail of despair, that was drowned in the shriek of the wind and roar of the thunder, he fell.
— from Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

These may be of later date than Southey's time.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“What have we there, Ned Hopkins?” said Mr. Seymour, as he pointed to a booth of larger dimensions than those which surrounded it.
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

On the borders of Lydenburg district there lived a powerful chief named Secocoeni.
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

There was just barely time for the Merrills to jump from the dock to the broad open lower deck; then a bell rang, the engines again began working and the space between boat and dock widened—they were off.
— from Mary Jane Down South by Clara Ingram Judson

[52] MAster Speaker, Whereas at the humble suit of Our house of Commons Wee condescended to make this meeting a Seßion before Christmas, to which purpose We gaue them time vntill Saturday next, in case they would seriously applie themselues to that end; & likewise since, out of Our Grace, and to take away al mistakings, by Our Letters directed to Our Secretarie, Wee were pleased so fully and clearely to explane Our selues in the point of maintaining all lawfull Priuiledges to Our said House, which since Wee cannot heare hath had the wished effect, in making them spend this short time in preparing things most necessary for a Seßion, Wee haue [53] thought good once more clearely by this to impart Our minde vnto them; which is, that in respect of the expectation after this so long a meeting in Parliament, as also that the generalitie, for the most part, rather iudge things by the outward effects then enter into the causes of them, Wee haue an earnest desire to make this a Seßion, to the end that our good and louing Subjects may haue some taste, aswell of Our Grace and goodnesse towards them by our free Pardon, and good Lawes to be passed, as they haue had, both by the great, and vnusuall examples of Iustice since this meeting, and the so many eases and comforts giuen vnto them by Proclamatiō: And therfore calling to minde, that the paßing of the Subsidie, an Acte for continuance [54] of Statutes, and the Pardon, are the three most preßing businesses to be effected before the end of the Seßion, Wee wish them, that, as Wee haue giuen order for the Pardon to goe on with all expedition, so they presently goe in hand with the Acte for continuance of Statutes.
— from His Maiesties Declaration, touching his Proceedings in the late Assemblie and Conuention of Parliament by King of England James I

In October the loss of the battle of Leipsic decided the fate of France.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Ave Maria Lane , Creed Lane , and Amen Corner , being of later date, their designation to complete the religious metaphor was perhaps natural.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

They learn it from the aged, and unrestrained they disgracefully and wantonly injure themselves in the very bloom of life, destroying themselves as corn is cut down by hail and tempest.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther