de documentos a cobrar , records of bills collectable ; libro de documentos a pagar , record of bills payable ; cuenta deudora , debit account ; cuenta acreedora , credit account ; cuenta de mercancías , bill of goods ; cuenta de pérdidas y ganancias , profit and loss account ; cerrar una cuenta , to close an account ; liquidar , to settle (an account) ; saldo a favor , a balance in favor ; saldo en contra , a balance against ; partida , item , entry ; pasar al mayor , to transfer to the ledger ; tenedor de libros , bookkeeper ; cajero , cashier ; debe , debit ; haber , credit ; activo , assets ; pasivo , liabilities ; entrada , cash receipts ; salida , expenditure ; a cargo de , charged to ; a favor de , credited to ; partida doble , double entry ; a prorrata , pro rata .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Here then, in these different emotional and practical appeals, in these adjustments of our concrete attitudes of hope and expectation, and all the delicate consequences which their differences entail, lie the real meanings of materialism and spiritualism—not in hair-splitting abstractions about matter's inner essence, or about the metaphysical attributes of God.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Although her book did not contain The bard's enthusiastic strain, Nor precepts sage nor pictures e'en, Yet neither Virgil nor Racine Nor Byron, Walter Scott, nor Seneca, Nor the Journal des Modes , I vouch, Ever absorbed a maid so much: Its name, my friends, was Martin Zadeka, The chief of the Chaldean wise, Who dreams expound and prophecies.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

“But they aren't going 'way off, dear,” evaded Aunt Polly, hurriedly.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

ANT: Pass, omit, sanction, permit, overlook, disregard, elude, avoid, pretermit.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

That is, it is something apart from direct experience and perception.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

FEJEVARY has a lean, distinguished face, his dark eyes are penetrating and rather wistful.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

And whereas the said John Bull, from the assured confidence that he has in my friendship, has appointed me executor of his last will and testament, and guardian to his children, I do undertake for me, my heirs and assigns, to see the same duly executed and performed, and that it shall be unalterable in all its parts by John Bull, or anybody else: for that purpose it shall be lawful and allowable for me to enter his house at any hour of the day or night, to break open bars, bolts, and doors, chests of drawers, and strong boxes, in order to secure the peace of my friend John Bull's family, and to see his will duly executed.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

These radical differences between the weather and the lee gage were so clearly recognized, through the cloud of lesser details accompanying them, that the former was ordinarily chosen by the English, because their steady policy was to assail and destroy their enemy; whereas the French sought the lee-gage, because by so doing they were usually able to cripple the enemy as he approached, and thus evade decisive encounters and preserve their ships.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Who was this Man With The Crutch—this man with a crutch whose shaft was stained to resemble grained wood and so disguise the murderous iron of which it actually consisted, and which, he was sure now, was the weapon that had brought both David Ellsworth and Peters to their deaths?
— from Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

In nine cases out of ten the writer has selected his subject because it interests him, because it has dramatic elements, and possibly because he hopes to interest his readers more readily by means of characters and events altogether beyond the reach of the carping critic.
— from The Novel; what it is by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

“From these works, which contain definitions of two words designative of the creature Nyan, it will be gathered that there does exist a predatory monster in the form of an earthworm, which inhabits estuaries and the mouths of great rivers.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

Keith dropped everything and pursued.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

Her sallies of wit had made him roar with delight; her mimicry of one or two conscientious but acidulated dames who had come over on the Queen, bound as nurses for Manila, had tickled him to the verge of apoplexy; but when later she backed him into the coolest corner of the “lanai” with the plash of fountain close at hand, and the sweet music of Berger’s famous band floating softly on the evening air, and told him how her father had loved to talk of his, the General’s, dash and daring in the great days of the great war, and led him on to tell of his campaigns in 244 the Shenandoah and the West, listening with dilated eyes and parted lips, the campaigner himself was captivated, and she had her will.
— from Found in the Philippines: The Story of a Woman's Letters by Charles King

AND that it may be lawful to and for the Mayor of the said City, for the Time being, for ever hereafter to nominate, and from Time to Time appoint the Clerk of the Market, who shall have Assize of Bread, Wine, Beer, Wood, and other Things; and to do, execute and perform all Things belonging to the Clerk of the Market within the said City.
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden

Paul admits the indictment, will say no word to mitigate the condemnation due to his past worthlessness, but, with a playful allusion to the slave’s name, which conceals his deep earnestness, assures Philemon that he will find the formerly inappropriate name, Onesimus— i.e. profitable—true yet, for all that is past.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

There did exist a party who said that Sir Harry would divide the property, but they who held such an opinion certainly knew very little of Sir Harry's social or political tenets.
— from Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope