they feed very much on the fruit and seed of the prickly pear; or at least I have seen large quantities of the hulls of that fruit lying about their holes and in their nests.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Even before Miss Taylor had ceased to hold the nominal office of governess, the mildness of her temper had hardly allowed her to impose any restraint; and the shadow of authority being now long passed away, they had been living together as friend and friend very mutually attached, and Emma doing just what she liked; highly esteeming Miss Taylor's judgment, but directed chiefly by her own.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Exercitium naturae dormientis stimulatio, membrorum solatium, morborum medela, fuga vitiorum, medicina languorum, destructio omnium malorum, Crato.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

falls eine solche Negoziierung nicht erfolgt if such negotiation is not effected falls er es versäumt should he fail to provide falls er sich vorbehalten hat in case he may have reserved falls im Namen des Verkäufers gezahlt if paid on behalf of the seller falls kein Bestimmungsflughafen benannt ist if no such airport has been so named falls kein genau bestimmter Ort if no precise point falls sich der Käufer entschließt if the seller elects to falls solche Weisungen nicht eingehen if such instructions are not received falls vom Verkäufer gezahlt if paid by the seller falls Waren versandt werden in the event of goods being dispatched Fallstudie case study falsch FALSE falsch adressieren; fehlleiten misdirect falsch angesetzte Werbung misplaced advertising falsch klassifizieren misclassify falsch verbuchen misenter falsch; Unrecht wrong falsch; unrecht; Unrecht wrong Falschbuchung; Fehlbuchung false entry falsche Behauptungen; Vorwand false pretences falsche Angabe false statement falsche Anschuldigung false accusation falsche Anwendung misapplication falsche Beschreibung misdescription falsche Darstellung false presentation falsche Darstellung; Entstellung misrepresentation falsche Erklärung misstatement falsche Handhabung mishandling falsche Klassifizierung misclassification falsche Unternehmensleitung mismanagement falsche Warenbeschreibung false trade description fälschen forge fälschen; Fälschung counterfeit fälschen; Fälschung fake Fälscher eines Dokuments falsifier falscher Name false name falscher Schluss false conclusion falscher Vorwand false pretences Falschgeld bogus money Falschgeld counterfeit money fälschlicherweise wrongly Falschlieferung wrong delivery Fälschung counterfeit Fälschung forgery Fälschung der Bücher faking of the books Fälschung der Bücher falsification of accounts Fälschung eines Schecks forgery of a cheque Fälschung; Verzerrung falsification Fälschungen counterfeits Fälschungen bleiben nicht unentdeckt forgeries do not remain undetected Faltmappe folder Faltschachtel folding box Familienplanung family planning Familienunternehmen family business Familienunternehmen family-owned enterprise Familienvorstand head of the household Familienzulage family allowance Familienzulage family income supplement fangen capture Farbdiapositiv colour slide Farbfilm colour film Farbfoto colour photo farbige Bevölkerung coloured population farbige Bevölkerung nonwhite population Farbkontrast colour contrast Farbskala colour scale Färbung; Farbgebung colouring Farbwirkung colour effect Farm; Bauernhof farm Farmer; Bauer farmer Faß cask Fässchen keg faules Vorgehen foul play federleichtes Papier feather-weight paper
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Fanny did not love Miss Crawford; but she felt very much obliged to her for her present kindness; and when, from taking notice of her work, and wishing she could work as well, and begging for the pattern, and supposing Fanny was now preparing for her appearance , as of course she would come out when her cousin was married, Miss Crawford proceeded to inquire if she had heard lately from her brother at sea, and said that she had quite a curiosity to see him, and imagined him a very fine young man, and advised Fanny to get his picture drawn before he went to sea again—she could not help admitting it to be very agreeable flattery, or help listening, and answering with more animation than she had intended.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

All this is excessively interesting, but at the same time tainted with a black, gloomy, enervating melancholy, so that a forcible veto must be invoked against looking too long into these abysses.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[ 54 ] The Morning Herald was called “Mrs. Harris,” because it was said that no one ever saw it, a peculiarity which, in common with its general disregard for veracity, made it uncommonly like “Mrs. Gamp’s” invisible friend as portrayed by Dickens.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The sun could get at them and warm them, and when the rain came down it could reach them at once, so they began to feel very much alive.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This catalogue or “Donation Book” is a folio volume measuring 14 3/4 by 9½ inches, and is bound in rough calf, with three small brass clasps.
— from Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 by Geo. A. (George Arthur) Stephen

It has been proposed to carry stored gas at high pressure (perhaps in the liquefied condition) as a supplementary method of prolonging the voyage while facilitating vertical movements: but hydrogen gas at a pressure of a ton to the square inch in steel cylinders would give an ultimate lifting power of only about one-tenth the weight of the cylinders
— from Flying Machines Today by William D. (William Duane) Ennis

At the same time, we Feel very much for poor Babby, and Beenie, and Becky, as they Naturally, and indeed all of us, Expected they would, of Course, be married first; and it is certainly a great Trial for them to See their younger sisters married before them.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

'On Enyusha's first visit, my dear soul,' he said to her, 'we bothered him a little; we must be wiser this time.'
— from Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Exports - commodities: clothing, pharmaceuticals, potash, phosphates, fertilizers, vegetables, manufactures Exports - partners: US 26.2%, Iraq 17.1%, India 8.1%, Saudi Arabia 5.9%, Syria 4.7% (2005)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Bulgaria 18-27 years of age for voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 9 months; as of May 2006, 67% of the Bulgarian Army comprised of professional soldiers; conscription ended as of 1 January 2008; Air and Air Defense Forces and Naval Forces became fully professional at the end of 2006 (2008) Burkina Faso 18 years of age for compulsory military service; 20 years of age for voluntary military service (2001) Burma 18 years of age for voluntary military service for both sexes; forced conscription of children, although officially prohibited, reportedly continues (2007)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"If I loved that friend very much," she replied slowly, "and had always trusted her before, I would say to myself, 'This is my friend whom I love and trust I don't understand what she is doing, but I won't permit myself to have any doubts about her now.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. Frey

Generally, for from five inches to over a foot down, the clay is deep brown in colour from the admixture of vegetable matter, and quite friable, and rootlets of even the smaller surface vegetation reach down far below this level, though on the tops of many of the ridges the light-buff coloured clay, without any appreciable coloration from vegetable matter, comes quite to the surface.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

“We have come,” I said, “from Visichich Manor.
— from The Black Ghost of the Highway by Gertrude Linnell

The chapter on the Japanese earthquake is reprinted, with a few slight additions, from a paper published in the Geographical Journal , and I am indebted to the editor, not only for the necessary permission, but also for his courtesy in furnishing [vi] me with clichés of the blocks which illustrated the original paper.
— from A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison