I am reminded of a walk I was privileged to take with Mr. William B. Yeats on Lady Gregory’s estate at Coole Park, near Gort (County Galway); for Mr. Yeats led me to the haunts of the water-spirits of the region, along a strange river which flows underground for some distance and then comes out to the light again in its weird course, and to a dark, deep pool hidden in the forest.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

There are two species of ever green shrubs which I first met with at the grand rappids of the Columbia and which I have since found in this neighbourhood also; they grow in rich dry ground not far usually from some watercourse.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Finanzberater financial adviser Finanzbericht financial report Finanzbuchführung financial accounting Finanzbuchhaltung financial accounting finanziell financial finanziell besser gestellt sein be better off finanziell unabhängig financially independent finanziell unterstützt financially supported finanzielle Angelegenheiten financial affairs finanzielle Belastung financial strain finanzielle Hilfe financial aid finanzielle Hilfe; finanzielle Unterstützung pecuniary aid finanzielle Lage financial conditions finanzielle Lage financial position finanzielle Lage financial standing finanzielle Lage financial status finanzielle Lage; Vermögenslage financial standing finanzielle Unterstützung financial aid finanzielle Unterstützung pecuniary aid finanzielle Verhältnisse financial circumstances finanzielle Verhältnisse pecuniary circumstances finanzielle Verlegenheit financial embarrassement finanzielle Verpflichtung financial obligation finanzielle Verpflichtungen financial obligations finanziellen Verhältnisse financial circumstances finanzieller Anreiz financial incentive finanzielles Ansehen financial standing finanzieren finance Finanzierung finance Finanzierung financing Finanzierungsgesellschaft finance company Finanzierungsgesellschaft finance house Finanzierungsgesellschaft financing company Finanzierungskosten costs of financing Finanzierungslücke money gap Finanzierungsplan capital budget Finanzierungsplan financial budget Finanzierungsvermittler company promoter Finanzkonto financial account Finanzkontrolle financial control Finanzkreise financial circles Finanzplatz financial centre Finanzpolitik financial policy Finanzsystem; Steuersystem fiscal system Finanzunternehmen; Finanzierungsgesellschaft finance company Finanzwirtschaft finance findet nicht statt does not take place fingiert fictitious fingierte Zahlung sham payment fingiertes Konto pro forma account Firma company Firma firm Firma mit bankartigen Geschäften banking company Firma; geschäftliches Unternehmen business concern Firmenbriefpapier; Büropapier stationery Firmenchef principal of the firm Firmeninhaber owner of a firm Firmenkapital capital funds Firmenname company name Firmenname firm name Firmenreserven company reserves Firmenschriftzug logotype Firmensiegel signet Firmenzeichen logo Fischhändler fishmonger fiskalisch fiscal fixe Kosten fixed charges fixe Kosten fixed costs flach flat Fläche; Bereich area Flächenstichprobe area sample Flächenstichprobenverfahren area sampling Flagge flag Flaschenzug hoist Flaschenzug; Winde hoist flau flat flaue Geschäftszeit dull season flaue Nachfrage slack demand Flaute dullness Flaute flatness Fleischbeschau meat inspection fleißig industrious flexibel; wendig flexible Flexibilität des Marktes market flexibility fliegender Händler; Hausierer; Höker hawker Fließband assembly line Fließbandfertigung conveyor-belt production Fließfertigung flowproduction Fließfertigung line production Fließ-Straße flow line flink speedy Flucht in die Stadt; Landflucht migration into cities Fluchtgeld hot money Fluchtkapital flight capital
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

While the power of thought frees us from servile subjection to instinct, appetite, and routine, it also brings with it the occasion and possibility of error and mistake.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

And now he thither came for like intent; Where he unwares the fairest Una found, Straunge Lady, in so straunge habiliment, Teaching the Satyres, which her sat around, 265 Trew sacred lore, which from her sweet lips did redound.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Why do you flare up for such a tiny request? — libanta n a dog’s trick where the dog can sit or stand on its hind legs on command.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When one is in Rome, all the domes are alike; but when he has gone away twelve miles, the city fades utterly from sight and leaves St. Peter’s swelling above the level plain like an anchored balloon.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But he felt unable for steady work, as the following letter to the same friend, shows: ...
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

An early historian tells that once Chuang Tzu was invited to the court to serve as a minister, an invitation he declined with a typical story: An ox is selected for a festival and fattened up for several years, living the life of wealth and indulgence—until the day he is led away for sacrifice.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

It was eight o'clock when he struck the first unmistakably fresh signs of Noozak and Neewa.
— from Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood

He came to a large river, the course of which he followed upwards for several days, for the rapids in it caused all the people to shake their heads when he tried to get ferried across.
— from Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma: A Tale of the Burmese Jungle by G. (George) Norway

All the provisions we had taken with us on our day’s voyage were consumed, except one loaf of bread and two pies, but a sufficient supply of the fish had been brought from the cutter to feed us for several meals.
— from Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by William Henry Giles Kingston

The declining health of our dear brother F. M. Olcott brought increasing darkness over our future prospects, and the memorable battle of Bull Run increased the shock that startled the liberty lovers of our nation at the firing upon Fort Sumter.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

But to me there is something more impressive in the fall of light upon these noble, silver pine pillars: it is beaten to the finest dust and shed off in myriads of minute sparkles that seem to radiate from the very heart of the tree as if like rain, falling upon fertile soil, it had been absorbed to reappear in flowers of light.
— from The Yosemite by John Muir

Of course, these findings cannot be considered as facts until further studies have been made.
— from Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Carl Weschcke