If beetles crawl backwards as you watch them it means death from fire or from great height such as flight of stairs, scaffolding, etc. “Spiders.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The men who took the lead in the patriotic movement of 1618 on behalf of Virginia were mainly liberal statesmen—that Earl of Southampton who is known as the friend of Shakespeare; Sir Edwin Sandys, one of the greatest men of a great age, whose brave support of popular liberty had lost him the favor of the king; Sir John Danvers, and others.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

im Geschäft niederlassen settle down in business sich schnell verkaufend fast-selling sich selbst erklärend self-explanatory sich unterscheiden differ sich vergewissern ascertain sich verlassen auf rely on sich verpflichten commit sich verpflichten undertake sich verrechnen miscalculate sich zurückziehen give up a business sich zurückziehen retire sicher safe sicher aufbewahren keep in safe custody sichere Annahme safe assumption sichere Aufbewahrung safekeeping Sicherheit collateral Sicherheit safety Sicherheitsanweisungen safety instructions Sicherheitsfaktoren factors of safety sichern ensure sichern safeguard Sicherung safeguard Sicht sight sichtbar visible sichtbare Exporte visible exports sichtbare Importe visible imports sichtbarer Teil des Handels visible items of trade Sichttratte sight bill Sichttratte sight draft Sichtwechsel cash order
— from Mr. Honey's Small Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Name one other book still in the field of social service, even so unpleasant, so terrible, so obnoxious a book as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle .
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee

Himalayan Journals — Complete Himalayan Journals Volume I Chapter II Doomree — Vegetation of table-land — Lieutenant Beadle — Birds — Hot springs of Soorujkoond — Plants near them — Shells in them — Cholera-tree — Olibanum — Palms, form of — Dunwah Pass — Trees, native and planted — Wild peacock — Poppy fields — Geography and geology of Behar and Central India — Toddy-palm — Ground, temperature of — Barroon — Temperature of plants — Lizard — Cross the Soane — Sand, ripple marks on — Kymore hills — Ground, temperature of — Limestone — Rotas fort and palace — Nitrate of lime — Change of climate — Lime stalagmites, enclosing leaves — Fall of Soane — Spiders, etc. — Scenery and natural history of upper Soane valley — Hardwickia binata — Bhel fruit — Dust-storm — Alligator — Catechu — Cochlospermum — Leaf-bellows — Scorpions — Tortoises — Florican — Limestone spheres — Coles — Tiger-hunt — Robbery.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

When, then, John Frederick of Saxony suddenly entered Silesia, and seized on the monastery of Dobrilug, Ferdinand found that large numbers of the Bohemians refused to repel this invasion of Bohemian territory; and even those who went to the war were unwilling to fight.
— from Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

Name one other book still in the field of social service, even so unpleasant, so terrible, so obnoxious a book as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee