I then return to where the head, legs, and arms have been deposited, and, for forty slaves, I ransom them, together with the merchandise and other property belonging to the deceased, which I give up to the new Matiamvo, who has been proclaimed.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when they came to thin, or let in the light to, a consecrated grove ( lucum conlucare ), that is, would believe that it is sacred to some god.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

[34] In the thirteenth century, which modern ignorance loves to reckon as having been in a special sense an age of faith, there were many Florentines who, in spite of their outward conformity, had drifted as far from spiritual allegiance to the Church as the furthest point reached by any of their descendants who some two ages later belonged to the school of Florentine Platonists.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Staatssicherheit safety of the state Staatsvermögen national property Staatsverschuldung national debt Staatswissenschaft political economics Stab der Außendienstmitarbeiter field staff Stab der Außenmitarbeiter field force Stab der Verkäufer im Außendienst field sales force stabil stable stabile Währung stable money stabilisieren stabilize Stabilisierung stabilization Stabilisierung der Preise stabilization of prices Stabilität stabilty Stabilitätsanalyse analysis of stability Stadt London City of London Stadtbevölkerung town population Stadtbevölkerung urban population Stadtbezirk urban district Stadterneuerung urban renewal Stadtgebiet urban area Stadtgrenzen city limits Stadthaus town house städtisch urban städtische Behörde municipal authority städtische Verkehrsmittel city transportation städtische Verordnung bye-law Stadtplaner city planner Staffelung differentiation Staffelung sliding scale Staffelung; Einordnung grading Stagflation stagflation Stagnation stagnation stagnierend stagnant stagnierender Absatz stagnation of sales Stahlband steel strapping Stahlindustrie steel industry Stahlkammer safe vault Stahlkammer strong-room Stahlkammer vault Stahlmöbel steel furniture Stammaktie ordinary share Stammaktien common shares Stammaktien common stock Stammaktien common stocks Stammaktien equities Stammaktien ordinaries Stammaktien erstklassiger Firmen blue chips Stammaktienzertifikat stock certificate Stammaktionär ordinary shareholder Stammeinlage primary deposit Stammkunde patron Stammkunde registered customer Stammkunde regular customer Stammkundschaft patronage Stand stall Stand stand Stand der Dinge stage of affairs standaradisierter Fragebogen standardized questionnaire Standard standard Standard der Ausführung standard performance Standardabweichung standard deviation Standardartikel standardized product Standardausführung standard make Standardballen standard bale Standardgewicht standard weight Standardgröße standard size standardisieren standardize standardisiertes Produkt standaradized product Standardisierung standardisation Standardisierung standardization Standardisierung von Produkten standardization of products Standardleistung standard performance Standardlohnsatz standard wage rate Standardwerte barometer stocks Standardzeit; Vorgabezeit standard time Standardzeitwert für eine Bewegung motion time standard Stand-by Letter of Credit stand-by credit ständig gebraucht in constant requisition ständiger Ausschuss standing committee ständiges Büro permanent office Standort location Standort der Industrie location of industry Standpunkt point of view Standpunkt standpoint Stapel batch stapeln von Ware piling of stock Stapelware staple goods Stapelware nachbestellen; gängige Ware to re-order staple goods stark angeboten freely offered stark favorisierte Aktien high flyers starke Nachfrage keen demand starker Kursanstieg sharp rise starker Rückgang sharp fall starkes
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

“A small chamber about seven feet deep and four feet square lay open to us.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Those who prize long life should avoid all occupations which compel them to breathe impure air or deleterious gases, and especially those in which they are obliged to inhale dust and filings from steel and brass and iron, the dust in coal mines, and dust from threshing machines.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Mrs. Dashwood was prudent enough to remain at the cottage, without attempting a removal to Delaford; and fortunately for Sir John and Mrs. Jennings, when Marianne was taken from them, Margaret had reached an age highly suitable for dancing, and not very ineligible for being supposed to have a lover.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

She dies, unless a champion, good and true, Arm on her side before a month expire; And her against the accuser base maintain Unmeriting such death, and free from stain.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

After Dr. Johnson's description of the place and all the adjectives he used—I presume he considered them necessary—I feel somewhat at a discount in attempting a further description, and finding fresh, suitable adjectives; but we see places with our own eyes and glean our own impressions.
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey

42 “The motive, Cousin Grover thinks, is to get into our safe, for our data and formula for synthetic camphor.”
— from The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds by Van Powell

And when the husbandmen came home, then could they scarse haue such sustenance of meats and drinkes as fell for seruants to haue: so that the Danes had all their commandements, eating and drinking of the best, where the sillie man that was the owner, could hardlie come to his fill of the worst.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

Having become a soldier, he passed from barrack to barrack, always quarrelsome, always discontented, always finding fault, so that he acquired the name of Captain Grumbler.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It is a reasonable expectation that once normal conditions of life are resumed thousands of Canadians will yearly make the tour of the Canadian fronts—visiting in turn the Flanders battlefields; the scenes of the heroic achievements around Vimy and Lens; that portion of the tragic field of the Somme "which is forever Canada" by virtue of our dead; and finally following step by step the Canadian advance during the One Hundred Days, which saw Germany's military effort pass, by successive disasters, from the high tide of the July offensive to the hopeless ruin of the November surrender.
— from Over the Canadian Battlefields Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919 by John Wesley Dafoe

The experience of the last war will deter any faction from soon making an effort at secession.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall