The dairy, too, probably the finest on the Eastern Shore of Maryland—supplied by cattle of the best English stock, imported for the purpose, pours its rich donations of fragant cheese, golden butter, and delicious cream, to heighten the attraction of the gorgeous, unending round of feasting.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Indudablemente había en su semblante hermoso, en sus ojos verdes, animados por extraño resplandor felino, en su negra cabellera, en su cuerpo 10 hercúleo, cierta expresión y aire de grandeza, un resabio o más bien recuerdo de las grandes razas que dominaron al mundo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Among the more general unlearned responses of children are fear, anger, pugnacity, envy, jealousy, curiosity, constructiveness, love of festivities, ceremonies and ordeals, sociability and shyness, secretiveness, etc.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

We prowled through the Holy Land, from Cesarea Philippi to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, a weird procession of pilgrims, gotten up regardless of expense, solemn, gorgeous, green-spectacled, drowsing under blue umbrellas, and astride of a sorrier lot of horses, camels and asses than those that came out of Noah’s ark, after eleven months of seasickness and short rations.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

“O, for that matter,” replied the person she was speaking to (who was fond of a joke), “she has good reason, for I know she is marked with a great ugly rat on her bosom, so naturally, that it even appears to be running.”
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

zu zahlendes Geld key money bei Sicht at sight bei Sicht zahlbare Dokumente documents payable at sight bei Verfall when due bei Vorlage on presentation bei Vorlage akzeptieren accept on presentation bei Wiederaufnahme unserer Geschäftstätigkeit upon resumption of our business bei Zahlung der Fracht at the time freight was paid bei Zuteilung on allottment Beiblatt; Zusatzblatt supplementary sheet beiderseitige Zustimmung mutual agreement beidhändig geschickt ambidextrous beidhändig; geschickt in beiden Händen bi-manual beifügen attach beifügen; umzäunen enclose beigefügt attached beigefügt enclosed Beihilfe grant Beihilfe leisten to abet Beihilfe zum Umzug allowance for removal Beihilfe zur Tat aiding and abetting beiholen (ARBEITSÖKONOMIE) transport loaded Beilagen zu einer Zeitung inserts Beilegung geschäftlicher Streitigkeiten for the settlement of business disputes Beilegung von Streitigkeiten adjustment of differences Beileidsbekundung letter of sympathy Beileidschreiben letter of sympathy beiliegend annexed beim Bezogenen die Vorlegung vornehmen making presentation to the drawee beim Großhändler bestellen to order goods from a wholesaler beim obersten Gericht zugelassener Anwalt barrister-at-law beinhalten include Beirat advisory body Beirat advisory council beisistzender Richter associate judge Beispiel instance Beitrag contribution beitragen contribute Beitragssatz rate of contribution bejahend affirmative bejahendenfalls in case of affirmation bekannt acquainted with bekannt als known as bekannt als reputed bekannt unter dem Namen von known under the name of Bekannter acquaintance Bekanntgabe des Bestimmungsflughafens notice of the airport of destination Bekanntmachung; Kündigung notice bekräftigen; bestätigen affirm beladen laden belasten; in Rechnung stellen charge belasten; Lastposten; Schuldposten debit belastet mit burdened with belastet mit einer Grunddienstbarkeit subject to an easement belastet mit Schulden burdened with debts belastet mit Steuern burdened with taxes Belastung burden
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Not even known to be gone until receipt of message, importing that her return was not to be expected for the present.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Badges are most usually met with in stained glass upon roundels of some colour or colours, and though one would hesitate to assert it as an actual fact, there are many instances which would lead one to suppose that the background of a badge was usually the livery colour or colours of its then owner, or of the family from which it was originally inherited.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It read: In provinces which are infested to such an extent with ladrones or outlaws that the lives and property of residents in the outlying barrios 10 are rendered wholly insecure by continued predatory raids — think of permitting a country to get into any such condition when you have an abundance of American troops on hand available to prevent it— and such outlying barrios thus furnish to the ladrones or outlaws their sources of food supply, and it is not possible with the available police forces constantly to provide protection to such barrios — there being all the time “available police forces,” in the shape of regular troops, amply able to handle these unsettled conditions, which were the inevitable aftermath of lawlessness consequent on five or six years of guerrilla warfare— it shall be within the power of the Governor-General, upon resolution of the Philippine Commission, to authorize the provincial governor to order that the residents of such outlying barrios be temporarily brought— observe the length of time this may last is not limited— [ 418 ] within stated proximity to the poblacion , or larger barrios, of the municipality, there to remain until the necessity for such order ceases to exist.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Under the microscope it is found to consist of grains, usually round or oval, and all alike in the same species, but very different in different plants.
— from The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

That was why the great unwritten rule of Goboto was that visitors should put on pants and shoes.
— from A Son Of The Sun by Jack London

Now, it is impossible not to recognize that according to this doctrine, general utility rests on monopoly , or interior spoliation, and on conquest , or exterior spoliation.
— from What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Frédéric Bastiat

He it was who started from The Hague at night for Germany, upon request of his chief, and saw the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Emperor and finally prevailed upon them to approve of the High Court, and not to withdraw their delegates as threatened—a service for which Mr. Holls deserves to be enrolled among the greatest servants of mankind.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

The black men gave us that herb at first on purpose to deprive us of our senses, that we might not be aware of the sad destiny prepared for us; and they gave us rice on purpose to fatten us, for, being cannibals, their design was to eat us as soon as we grew fat.
— from Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon

"In such a still soft negative of life," he said, "as such an evening gives us, really one could almost doubt whether there was indeed such a constantly recurring phenomenon in nature as I saw this morning!
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald