Against noon we had a coach ready for us, and she and I to White Hall, where I went to see whether Sir G. Carteret was at dinner or no, our design being to make a visit there, and I found them set down, which troubled me, for I would not then go up, but back to the coach to my wife, and she and I homeward again, and in our way bethought ourselves of going alone, she and I, to go to a French house to dinner, and so enquired out Monsieur Robins, my perriwigg-maker, who keeps an ordinary, and in an ugly street in Covent Garden, did find him at the door, and so we in; and in a moment almost had the table covered, and clean glasses, and all in the French manner, and a mess of potage first, and then a couple of pigeons a la esterve, and then a piece of boeuf-a-la-mode, all exceeding well seasoned, and to our great liking; at least it would have been anywhere else but in this bad street, and in a perriwigg-maker’s house; but to see the pleasant and ready attendance that we had, and all things so desirous to please, and ingenious in the people, did take me mightily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

in a state of the most extreme wonder, Newman darted into his little office for his hat, and limped after the coach as if with the intention of getting up behind; but in this design he was balked, for it had too much the start of him and was soon hopelessly ahead, leaving him gaping in the empty street.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I must give up business, but I pay all men.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Such is our race: 'tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth: He, source of power and might!
— from The Iliad by Homer

And thence the words that stand for them, by the greatest part of men of the same language, are not understood: v. g. COLTSHIRE, DRILLING, FILTRATION, COHOBATION, are words standing for certain complex ideas, which being seldom in the minds of any but those few whose particular employments do at every turn suggest them to their thoughts, those names of them are not generally understood but by smiths and chymists; who, having framed the complex ideas which these words stand for, and having given names to them, or received them from others, upon hearing of these names in communication, readily conceive those ideas in their minds;-as by COHOBATION all the simple ideas of distilling, and the pouring the liquor distilled from anything back upon the remaining matter, and distilling it again.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

He got up, but before going hesitated.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

When Duero arrived in our camp he was convinced, from what he saw, of the vast riches and power of Cortes, and he came not merely to bring about a good understanding between both generals, but also to take possession of his share of the acquired riches; as Amador de Lares had died.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The seed is of greatest use, being bruised and boiled in white wine or in broth, or the like, or the powder of the seed taken therein.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Bullen bull market Börsenspekulant stock exchange speculator Börsenspekulation gambling on the stock exchange Börsentermingeschäft time bargain Börsenumsatzsteuer stock exchange tax Börsenumsatzsteuer (US) stock tax Börsenwert stock exchange value Börsenzentrum in New York Wall Street bösartige Sachbeschädigungen malicious damages böswillig malicious Böswilligkeit malice Botengang errand Botschaft embassy Boykott boycott Boykottierung boycotting brach liegen to lie idle brachliegendes Kapital inactive capital brachliegendes Kapital loose capital brachliegendes Kapital unemployed capital Brainstorming-Methode brainstorming Branchenadressbuch classified directory Brandschaden fire loss Brandstiftung arson Brauch custom Brauch; Gepflogenheit usage Brauereiaktien breweries shares brechen infringe brechen; unterbrechen break breite Schrift; doppeltbreite Schrift expanded type breites Angebot offer of a variety of goods Brennpunkt; Blickpunkt focal point Brief letter Brief mit eingelegten Barmitteln cash letter Brief; Drucktype; Buchstabe letter Briefgeheimnis secrecy of letters Briefkasten letter-box Briefkasten mail box Briefkasten (Br.) pillar box
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Anthony Trollope did, indeed, give us Barchester, but Barchester is a shadow beside Sulaco.
— from Joseph Conrad by Hugh Walpole

This had lasted all the while Neale was growing up, but by the time he graduated, some of the younger members of the organization had begun to feel that perhaps the stock of information vital to the conduct of the business ought to be copied off from the several brains which possessed it, and set down in some more accessible form.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

You can scarcely stretch your very elastic fancy to the conclusion that Southampton was "got up by Black Republicanism."
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The sculptors of Egyptian works are, in general, unknown; but, by good fortune, in this particular case, the name of the artist has remained on record, and he has himself given us an account of the feelings with which he saw them set up in the places where they still remain.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

"Yonder comes the Charming Sally "Sailing with the General Greene — "First we'll fight the Hyder Ali , "Taking her is taking them: [Pg 151] "She intends to give us battle, "Bearing down with all her sail— "Now, boys, let our cannon rattle!
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 2 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

The loss of frigates by the pusillanimity of the commander, who returned to Gibraltar because he thought that Nelson must give up, being baffled as to the whereabouts of the French fleet, the ingratitude of the Neapolitans, the malignity of Admirals Parker and Orde, who had been passed over because the safety of Europe depended on the fleet’s winning a decisive victory, weighed heavily on the Admiral’s spirits, and brought on that irritability and sickness which so frequently followed inaction and disappointment in this extraordinary fighter.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

Before either of these plans could mature the Germans upset both by launching their great attack at 4 a.m. on 9th April.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

The queen was more than a match for all who opposed her, court intrigues, instigated by Luna, were to no avail, and in the end he had to give up, beaten by a woman, and one whom he had hoped to make his agent, or ally, in the further subjection of the king.
— from Women of the Romance Countries by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

In regard to myself, Mr. Brown says that I have “really nothing to go upon but Bunyan’s own words, in which he says that his father’s house was ‘of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families of [in] the land,’ which might simply mean that his father was a poor man in a village”(!)
— from Was John Bunyan a Gipsy? by James Simson

The goldsmiths then gathered up Bank bills, and tried to press the Directors.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury