For antiquity admitted fables, and sometimes even very clumsy ones; but this age [of Romulus] was sufficiently enlightened to reject whatever had not the air of truth."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

[1551] As in a standing pool, worms and filthy creepers increase, ( et vitium capiunt ni moveantur aquae , the water itself putrefies, and air likewise, if it be not continually stirred by the wind) so do evil and corrupt thoughts in an idle person, the soul is contaminated.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Tess did not explain very clearly its results, and Izz, who was a girl of tact, began to speak of her own little affair, a phase of which Tess had just witnessed.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

At Farnham he stopped to view the Bishop's Castle and to partake of a light dinner of stewed eels, veal cutlets, and French beans, with a bottle of claret.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Bedachtsamkeit thoughtfulness Bedarf requirements Bedarf an Zahlungsmitteln currency requirements Bedarfsdeckungsgüter convenience goods Bedarfsermittlung determination of requirements Bedarfserrechnung calculation of requirements Bedarfsschaffung demand creation Bedarfsvorhersage demand forecast bedecken; Bedeckung cover bedenken consider Bedenkzeit time for consideration bedeuten mean bedeutet means bedeutet das andere Extrem denotes the other extreme bedeutet das Land von welchem means the country from which Bedeutung impact Bedeutung significance bedeutungsvoll; wichtig significant Bediener; Maschinenarbeiter operator Bedienung einer Maschine operating of a machine Bedienung; Berechnung der Bedienung service charge Bedienungshelfer assistant operator Bedienungskontrollen controls for operating Bedienungsunterbrechung service interruption bedingt conditional bedingte Annahme conditional acceptance bedingte Annahme qualified acceptance Bedingung condition Bedingung term Bedingungen conditions Bedingungen terms Bedingungen der Beschäftigung conditions of employment Bedingungen des Verkaufs; Verkaufsbedingungen conditions of sale Bedingungen einer Vereinbarung terms of an agreement Bedingungen eines Vertrages conditions of a contract Bedingungen einhalten keep conditions Bedingungen für
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don’t help them because to your mind it’s of no importance.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Egge , sb. edge, W; eg , Voc., CM; egges , pl. , MD; eggez , S2.—AS. ecg : OS. eggia , see Sievers, 258; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Had the convention, under all these impressions, and in the midst of all these considerations, instead of exercising a manly confidence in their country, by whose confidence they had been so peculiarly distinguished, and of pointing out a system capable, in their judgment, of securing its happiness, taken the cold and sullen resolution of disappointing its ardent hopes, of sacrificing substance to forms, of committing the dearest interests of their country to the uncertainties of delay and the hazard of events, let me ask the man who can raise his mind to one elevated conception, who can awaken in his bosom one patriotic emotion, what judgment ought to have been pronounced by the impartial world, by the friends of mankind, by every virtuous citizen, on the conduct and character of this assembly?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

"Yes," said Marner, docilely, bringing his eyes very close, that they might be initiated in the mysteries; whereupon Baby seized his head with both her small arms, and put her lips against his face with purring noises.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

August 19, 1914, a shell exploded very close to a soldier, whose bread bag, cartridge container, and field flask were pulled away from him, but who was not himself wounded.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

She is a woman of many responsibilities, and her time and mind are always occupied, but few Americans ever visit Calcutta without having some delightful evidence of her loyalty and thoughtfulness.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

An English variety cataloged by the Horticultural Society of London in 1842.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

Elsie Venner , chap.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

"'Mr. E. van Cortlandt Wynne,'" Mr. Latham read aloud, and every man in the room moved a little in his chair.
— from The Diamond Master by Jacques Futrelle

'The moral of this long story is: that even vermilion can be worked up in a miraculous manner—if you put the powerful reflective faculty in motion; and doing so, you can have the satisfaction of knowing that by its means you can cause an invisible sign to be stuck up over even a country town in Italy: ' All Persons are Forbidden to Work Miracles Here! ''
— from The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

“Beata est ergo vita conveniens naturæ suæ; quæ non aliter contingere potest quam si primum sana mens est et in perpetuâ possessione sanitatis suæ.” —Seneca, De Vita Beata , c. iii.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky