it is rarely possible es ist verständlich daß it stands to reason that es kann benutzt werden it may be used es macht eine Erweiterung notwenig it necessitates amplification es
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Note 8 ( return ) [ This is authentic evidence that the Jews, in the days of Augustus, began to prepare for the celebration of the sabbath at the ninth hour on Friday, as the tradition of the elders did, it seems, then require of them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

“My work is done,” I said, “the rest must be left to God and fortune.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Having climbed the hill with great difficulty, I stopped to rest.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

One should make advances with all prudence, and with selection, pretty much as the English nobility do It stands to reason that the more powerful and strongly marked types of new Germanism could enter into relation with the Jews with the least hesitation, for instance, the nobleman officer from the Prussian border it would be interesting in many ways to see whether the genius for money and patience (and especially some intellect and intellectuality—sadly lacking in the place referred to) could not in addition be annexed and trained to the hereditary art of commanding and obeying—for both of which the country in question has now a classic reputation But here it is expedient to break off my festal discourse and my sprightly Teutonomania for I have already reached my SERIOUS TOPIC, the "European problem," as I understand it, the rearing of a new ruling caste for Europe.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I dreamt I saw thee, robed in purple flakes, Break amorous through the clouds, as morning breaks,
— from Lamia by John Keats

Thus the talmudic phrase אנשי מעשה, interpreted ‘men of practice, of good deeds,’ is supposed to refer to the Essenes (see Frankel’s Zeitschrift III.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Though dressed in scarlet, the relics of body armour were long retained in the cuirass, and, with the men, the pot helmet in addition; but the officers wore plumed hats.
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

Disappointment is sure to result where trees of any kind have been kept long out of the ground, as they are when bought at market or in packets at sales.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

Come, put on your calyx, Rosy Posy, Put on your calyx and come with me; For if you are my daughter, it stands to reason, Your own Mother Rosebush I must be.
— from In My Nursery by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

However, while I was thus up in the clouds, they (condescendingly determining, I suppose, to return my call) suddenly came down upon us, and unmercifully.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

"Do I seem to remember a rule about using one teaspoonful of tea for each person and one for the pot?" asked Tom.
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

The mansion faces the north on the road leading to Plymouth; across the road in front of the home is an extensive field sloping towards the green waving marshes that line the banks of the beautiful Neponset river, winding its course to the harbor, which bears upon its bosom many picturesque islands and in the remote distance is seen the rocky Brewsters, on which is situated the white lighthouse, marking the edge of the ocean.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

On a gusty day I saw the Red Flag of revolutionary socialism fluttering across the Place de la Concorde in front of the coffin containing the corpse of its leader.
— from The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

At the moment when Etienne saw the huge hand of his father raising a weapon upon Gabrielle he died, and Gabrielle fell dead in striving to retain him.
— from The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac

Sometimes the exchange is allowed to remain at the same rate for a few days in succession: this rarely takes place except when a particular currency, say silver, is to be bought up at a low rate, such as 58 or 60 pice to a rupee , to be sold again when the rate has been, for that purpose, raised to 64, or 65.
— from The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2) or, complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military, or naval service of the East India Company. by Thomas Williamson

“Dare I,” she thought, “run this dreadful risk?
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer