The intelligible character, of which the former is but the sensuous schema, knows no before or after; and every action, irrespective of the time-relation in which it stands with other phenomena, is the immediate effect of the intelligible character of pure reason, which, consequently, enjoys freedom of action, and is not dynamically determined either by internal or external preceding conditions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

This is why Canute from the light of day Draws ever back, and hath not dared appear Before the Judge whose face is as the sun.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Sí, una barca ha atracado Yes, a boat has landed debajo de ese balcón. below the balcony.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Don't you know your own daughter? DOOLITTLE {exclaiming Bly me!
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Now the Carians were reduced to subjection by Harpagos without any brilliant deed displayed either by the Carians themselves or by those of the Hellenes who dwell in this land.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Druck pressure Druck auf den Geldmarkt pressure on the money market drücken sqeeze down drucken; Druck print drückende Hypothek burden of a mortgage drückende Last heavy burden drückende Schulden burden of debts drückende Steuern burden of taxes Druckerei print shop Druckerei printers' shop Druckerei printing plant Druckerei printing shop druckfertig printable Druckort place of printing druckreif ready for press Drucksache printed matter Dubiose bad debt Dubiose bad debts Dubiose doubtful accounts Dubiose dubious debts Dubiose uncollectible receivables dubiose Außenstände doubtful debts Dubiosekonto delinquent account Dumping; Preisschleuderei dumping Dumping; Unterbietung dumping Dünndruckausgabe der Zeitung air edition Duplikat; zweifach duplicate durch by the use of durch Abstammung erworbene Staatsbürgerschaft nationality by descent durch Akzeptleistung by acceptance durch Angabe by indicating durch automatische Datenverarbeitung by automatic data processing durch automatische Datenverarbeitung by methods of automated data processing durch das Löschen by reason of the unloading durch den Vertrag bedingt involved in the contract durch die avisierende Bank through the advising bank durch die Benennung einer Bank by nominating a bank durch die bisherigen Richtlinien by existing rules durch die Einfuhr by reason of the importing durch die Hintertür through the back-door durch die Zulassung der Negoziierung by allowing for negotiation durch diese Grenze getrennt separated by that frontier durch Dokumente belegt documentary durch eigene Arbeit verdientes Einkommen earned income durch ein drittes Land through another country durch ein oder mehrere Drittländer through one or more countries durch ein Telekommunikationsmittel beauftragen instruct by any teletransmission durch eine andere Bank through another bank durch eine Hypothek abdecken cover by a mortgage durch einen bevollmächtigten Beauftragten by a duly accredited agent durch einen einzigen Schiedsrichter by a sole arbitrator durch einen Hinweis in dem Kredit by wording in the credit durch einen Schiedsrichter by one arbitrator durch einen Zusatz by adding words to this effect durch einfache Übergabe by simple delivery durch elektronische Datenverarbeitung by methods of electronic data processing durch Erfüllung by performance durch Ermächtigung einer Bank zu handeln by authorizing a bank to act durch Ersuchen einer Bank zu handeln by requesting a bank to act durch Frachtführer by public carrier durch Geburt erworbene Staatsbürgerschaft nationality by birth durch Handschlag by handshake durch Handzeichen show of hands durch hinausgeschobene Zahlung by deferred payment durch Indossament begeben; übertragen negotiate by endorsement durch Indossament oder auf anderem Wege by endorsement or otherwise durch Indossament sicherstellen providing by endorsement durch Indossierung by endorsement durch irgendeine Bank by any bank durch mehrere Schiedsrichter by more arbitrators durch Negoziierung by negotiation durch nichtbegebbare Dokumente by non-negotiable instruments durch Sichtzahlung by sight payment durch Testament by will durch unerlaubte Mittel; auf unerlaubte Weise by unfair means durch Unfall verursacht accidental durch Unmöglichkeit der Erfüllung by impossibility durch Vereinbarung by agreement durch
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

"I have done deeds enough, brother Efímushka ...
— from Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade by Maksim Gorky

Her wheat product did not meet her domestic demands even before the war, and annual importations of grain were always necessary.
— from The Mentor: Italy Under War Conditions, Vol. 6, Num. 23, Ser. No. 171, January 15, 1919 by E. M. (Edward Manuel) Newman

Nor is it directly denied, except by those who from habitual disgust reject the guesswork of the various pretenders to scientific systems; yet even these, no less than others, do practically admit it in their common intercourse with the world.
— from Lectures on Art by Washington Allston

For it points to the importance of the part which the principle of individuality plays in the great drama daily enacting before our eyes, and which we know as evolution.
— from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell

There's no place in the house I can show him, and I haven't got a decent dress, either." Betty swallowed her first impulse to say what she thought of a husband who would make no effort to see that his wife received her mail, and instead turned her practical mind to consideration of the immediate moment.
— from Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City by Alice B. Emerson