The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said—much praise and many comments—undoubting decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerably;—but, unfortunately, among the failures which the daughter had to instance, the most recent, and therefore most prominent, was in her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Plotting covetousness and deliberate contrivance, in order to compass a selfish end, are nowhere abundant but in the world of the dramatist: they demand too intense a mental action for many of our fellow-parishioners to be guilty of them.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The boy took the gourd and his war club and started east along the road by which he had come.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

are to be construed as sind erfüllt are fulfilled sind freizugeben are to be released sind für alle Beteiligten bindend are binding on all parties sind für alle Parteien verbindlich are binding upon all parties sind nicht verpflichtet zu have no obligation to sind sorgfältig abgefasst have been carefully drafted sind tatsächlich geliefert worden have been effectively delivered sind wahrscheinlich are likely to sinken ease off sinken fall off Sinken der Preise decline in prices Situation situation Sitz der Firma; Gesellschaftssitz place of business sitzen sit Sitzkissen chair cushion Sitzstreik sit-down strike Sitzung; Beratung session Sitzungszimmer des Aufsichtsrats boardroom Skonto discount Skontoerträge cash discount received Slogan slogan
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The prices prevailing on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange are studied by coffee traders in all countries, the fluctuations being reflected in foreign markets as the reports come from the United States.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Indeed we should hardly expect that an epistle of this character would be written and circulated at so early a date.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

[615] I will have no bogs, fens, marshes, vast woods, deserts, heaths, commons, but all enclosed; (yet not depopulated, and therefore take heed you mistake me not) for that which is common, and every man's, is no man's; the richest countries are still enclosed, as Essex, Kent, with us, &c. Spain, Italy; and where enclosures are least in quantity, they are best [616] husbanded, as about Florence in Italy, Damascus in Syria, &c. which are liker gardens than fields.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Rhasis enjoins continual conference to such melancholy men, perpetual discourse of some history, tale, poem, news, &c., alternos sermones edere ac bibere, aeque jucundum quam cibus, sive potus , which feeds the mind as meat and drink doth the body, and pleaseth as much: and therefore the said Rhasis, not without good cause, would have somebody still talk seriously, or dispute with them, and sometimes
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But no one, I think, will contend that we can always suppress entirely a strong emotion; and such suppression will be especially difficult if we are to do the [203] act to which the wrong impulse prompts; while yet, if that act be clearly a duty which no one else can so properly perform, it would be absurd to say that we ought to omit it because we cannot altogether exclude an objectionable motive.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Also some crocutas and some eali as big as sea-horses, with elephants’ tails, boars’ jaws and tusks, and horns as pliant as an ass’s ears.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

These incidents, connecting Tilbury and Higham, may [40] qualify the surprise that has hitherto troubled church historians at finding that “Clofeshoch,” at so early a date as A.D. 673, was appointed, at “Herutford,” as the place for future councils, even if Herutford had been Hertford, as some say.
— from Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England during the eighth century by T. (Thomas) Kerslake

While matters were in this condition, a special envoy arrived out of France, despatched by the King and Queen-mother, on the first reception of the recent intelligence from Antwerp.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Its assistance, however, is not limited to this individual employment of its agents in the field; it stands ready to co-operate in the equipment and supply of ambulances and medical stores, drawing for its resources on the benevolence of the community and systematizing effort and aid throughout the country by the various local committees it has organized.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

[ Just as the song concludes, a servant enters and approaches the table.
— from The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 of 2 Reminiscences of seventeen years in the service abroad and at home by William Maginn

If we think of a man's character as his characteristics, his being this or that kind of person, we must think of his action as so far determined, but that does not prevent us from thinking of his individuality as something more than any sum or combination of characteristics, as something essentially alive, which escapes all attempts to bind it by rules.
— from The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant by A. D. (Alexander Dunlop) Lindsay

Oh, no; C and so entirely astray are you in your ideas about the just and unjust as not even to know that justice and the just are in reality another’s good; that is to say, the interest of the ruler and stronger, and the loss of the subject and servant; and injustice the opposite; for the unjust is lord over the truly simple and just: he is the stronger, and his subjects do what is for his interest, and minister to his D happiness, which is very far from being their own.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

And (which is worse) this readiness to hazard our Patience, and certainly lose our Time, and thereby incourage others to multiply idle 58 words, of which the Scripture seems to speak threateningly, is made by Custom an Expression, if not a Duty, of Civility; and so even a Virtue is made accessory to a Fault.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

The drives and pedestrian excursions about Corsica are superb, especially along the east side and up the centre by Sartène, Zicavo and Ghisoni ( p. 27 ), and the road between Calvi and Ponte alla Leccia ( p. 20 ).
— from Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads by C. B. Black