A good deal of hammering went on before the curtain rose again; but when it became evident what a masterpiece of stage-carpentering had been got up, no one murmured at the delay.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Rundreisefahrkarte circular ticket Rundschreiben circular letter Rundschreiben zum Angebot von Obligationen bond circular Rüstungshochkonjunktur armaments boom Rüstzeit set-up time Rüstzeit setting-up time Rüstzeit; Einrichtungszeit make-ready time S Saatgut emblements sabotieren; Sabotage sabotage Sachanlage real investment sachdienlich; einschlägig relevant sachdienliche Dokumente relevant papers sachdienliche Schriftstücke relevant papers Sachinformation factual information Sachkonten impersonal accounts Sachkonten real accounts Sachkonto impersonal account Sachkonto nominal account sachliche Kritik fair comment Sachschaden damage to property Sachschaden material damage Sachvermögen tangible property Sachverständiger expert Sachverständiger official expert Sachverständnis expertness Sack sack sagenhafter Reichtum fabulous wealth Saisonarbeiter seasonal labourer Saisonartikel seasonal article saisonbedingt seasonal saisonbedingt subject to seasonal influences saisonbedingte Anpassung seasonal adjustment saisonbedingte Nachfrage seasonal demand saisonbedingte Schwankungen seasonal fluctuations saisonbereinigt seasonally adjusted saisonbereinigte Statistik seasonally adjusted statistics Saisonbereinigung adjustment for seasonal variations Saisonbereinigung seasonal adjustment Saisonbeschäftigung seasonal employment Saisondarlehen seasonal loan Saisoneinflüsse seasonal influences Saisonende end of season
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

settling disputes, Loving, praising, Lunes, leashes, strings, Lusk, lubber, Lusts, inclinations, Maims, wounds, Makeless, matchless, Makers, authors, poets, Mas,ease, discomfort, Mal engine, evil design, Mal-fortune, ill-luck, mishap, Marches, borders, Mass-penny, offering at mass for the dead, Matche old, machicolated, with holes for defence, Maugre, sb., despite, Measle, disease, Medled, mingled, Medley, melee, general encounter, Meiny, retinue, Mickle, much, Minever, ermine, Mischieved, hurt, Mischievous, painful, Miscorr fort, discomfort, Miscreature, unbeliever, Missay, revile,; missaid, Mo, more, More and less, rich and poor, Motes, notes on a horn, Mount~ lance, amount of, extent, Much, great, Naked, unarmed, Namely, especially, Ne, nor, Near-hand, nearly,; near, Needly, needs, on your own compulsion, Nesh, soft, tender, Nigh-hand, nearly, Nill, will not, Nilt, will not, Nis, ne is, is not, Nist, ne wist, knew not, Noblesse, nobleness, Nobley, nobility, splendour, Noised, reported, Nold, would not, Noseling, on his nose, Not for then, nevertheless, Notoyrly, notoriously, Noyous, hurtful, Obeissance, obedience, Or, before, Orgule, haughtiness, Orgulist, haughtiest, Orgulite, pride, arrogance, Orgulous, proud, Other, or, Ouches, jewels, Ought, owned, Outcept, except, Outher, or, Out-taken, except, Over-evening, last night, Overget, overtake, Overhylled, covered, Over-led, domineered over, Overlong, the length of, Overslip, pass, Overthwart, adj., cross, Overthwart, sb., mischance, Overthwart and endlong, by the breadth and length, Painture, painting, Paitrelles, breastplate of a horse, Paltocks, short coats, Parage, descent, Pareil, like, Passing, surpassingly, Paynim, pagan, Pensel, pennon, Perclos, partition, Perdy, par Dieu, Perigot, falcon, Perish, destroy, Peron, tombstone, Pight, pitched, Pike, steal away, Piked, stole, Pillers, plunderers, Pilling, plundering, Pleasaunce, pleasure, Plenour, complete, Plump, sb., cluster, Pointling, aiming, Pont, bridge, Port, gate, Posseded, possessed, Potestate, governor, Precessours, predecessors, Press, throng, Pretendeth, belongs to, Pricker, hard rider, Pricking, spurring, Prime, A.M., Prise, capture, Puissance, power, Purfle, trimming, Purfled, embroidered, Purvey, provide, Quarrels, arrowheads, Questing, barking, Quick, alive, Quit, repaid,; acquitted, behaved, Raced (rased), tore, Rack (of bulls), herd, Raines, a town in Brittany famous for its cloth, Ramping, raging, Range, rank, station, Ransacked, searched, Rashed, fell headlong, Rashing, rushing, Rasing, rushing, Rasure, Raundon, impetuosity, Rear, raise, Rechate, note of recall, Recomforted, comforted, cheered, Recounter, rencontre, encounter, Recover, rescue, Rede, advise, ; sb., counsel, Redounded, glanced back, Religion, religious order, Reneye, deny, Report, refer, Resemblaunt; semblance, Retrayed, drew back, Rightwise, rightly, Rivage, shore, Romed, roared, Roted, practised, Rove, cleft, Rownsepyk, a branch, Sacring, consecrating, Sad, serious, Sadly, heartily, earnestly, Salle, room, Samite, silk stuff with gold or silver threads, Sangreal, Holy Grail, Sarps, girdles, Saw, proverb, Scathes, harms, hurts, icripture, writing, Search, probe wounds, Selar, canopy,
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

My mind, I hope, is settled to follow my business again, for I find that two days’ neglect of business do give more discontent in mind than ten times the pleasure thereof can repair again, be it what it will.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Goths, in their new settlement of the Ukraine, soon became masters of the northern coast of the Euxine: to the south of that inland sea were situated the soft and wealthy provinces of Asia Minor, which possessed all that could attract, and nothing that could resist, a barbarian conqueror.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Large stocks of firs and pine trees, after being absorbed by the current, rise again broken and torn to such a degree as if bristles grew upon them.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Probably the first scientific inquiry into the subject of coffee roasting and brewing in the United States was that detailed by August T. Dawson and Charles M. Wetherill, Ph.D., M.D., in the Journal of the Franklin Institute for July and August, 1855.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Then we both sit down in the cosy room and begin to talk.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For, whatsoever any substance has thought or done, which I cannot recollect, and by my consciousness make my own thought and action, it will no more belong to me, whether a part of me thought or did it, than if it had been thought or done by any other immaterial being anywhere existing.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The area of the Chinese Soviet Republic assumed the name Special Regional Government of the Chinese Republic ( Chunghua Min-kuo T'ê-ch'ü Chêng-fu ), which it had been using informally for months; the Chinese Red Army became the Eighth Route Army ( Pa-lu-chün ); and the Chinese Communist Party accepted the San Min Chu I as the constitutional state ideology of China, abandoning immediate measures of class war and [Pg 14] expropriation.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The contact rails are bounded by four bonds, aggregating 1,200,000 c. m. section.
— from The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment by Interborough Rapid Transit Company

It was currently reported and believed by many that Whirlwind on his return to the hunting grounds on the North Canadian, said that every feather had been shot from his war bonnet during the engagement, in the Smoky Hill canyon.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

The use of aluminum was not entirely novel at this time, as it had been utilized in many automobile engine parts, particularly crankcases; but its incorporation in this rather uncommon combination represented a bold step.
— from The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design by Leonard S. Hobbs

In 1868, when Lockyer first directed his spectroscope to the great flames or prominences that rise thousands of miles, sometimes hundreds of thousands, above the surface of the sun, he instantly identified the characteristic red and blue radiations of hydrogen.
— from The New Heavens by George Ellery Hale

[874] At length, in 1817, a Senate committee reported a bill to revise the law, but it was never brought up for consideration.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

" "Yes, we have no time to lose," repeated Caroline, ringing a bell and ordering her carriage.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

With Sixty curious Illustrations, 550 pp., price 7 s. 6 d. ⁂ Ancient and Modern Games, Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card Sharping, Gambling and Calculation, Cartomancy, Old Gaming-Houses, Card Revels and Blind Hookey, Picquet and Vingt-et-un, Whist and Cribbage, Tricks, &c. Thackerayana. Notes and Anecdotes illustrative of Scenes and Characters in the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray .
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland

To a Daffodil Bright messenger of life renewed and love, Joy fills thy golden chalice to the brim, Fit symbol of the sacred seraphim Who with their blazing phalanx headlong drove The Star of Morning from his seat above, Scattering celestial sparks through voidness dim, To fall upon our planet's curving rim And bloom as thy fair flowers in mead and grove.
— from The Call of the Mountains, and Other Poems by James E. Pickering

The clamour rose again, but his voice dominated it.
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth