The allegorists have gone mad in finding deep explanations for this amusing fiction.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The quadrille was made up of six couples of masked figures, who were not in fancy dress exactly, for their clothes were like every one else’s.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Inertia of sex could not be overcome without extinguishing the race, yet an immense force, doubling every few years, was working irresistibly to overcome it.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Friedensrichter justice of the peace friedliche Koexistenz peaceful coexistence frisiertes Konto cooked account Fristenüberschreitung failure to meet a deadline Fristenverlängerung extension of a period fruchtbar fertile Fruchtbarkeit fertility rate früher Ladenschluss early closing früherer Indossant previous endorser früherer Indossant prior endorser frühester Endtermin earliest finish time frühester Termin für ein Ereignis earliest event time Frühschicht morning shift Frühwarnsystem early warning system führen; Führung lead führende Aktie market leader führende Bank leading bank führende Geschäftsleute key businessmen Führer; Fremdenführer guide Fuhrgeld; Transport haulage Fuhrgewerbe; Transportgewerbe carrying trade führt zu Missverständnissen is leading to misunderstandings führt zu Streitigkeiten is leading to disputes Führung der Geschäfte conduct of business Führung durch Delegation management by delegation Führung mit Hilfe von Erkenntnissen management by perception Führung nach dem Ausnahmeprinzip management by exception Führung nach Ergebnissen management by results Führung nach Zielvorgaben management by objectives Führungsaufgaben managerial functions Führungsbefähigung leadership ability Führungskräfte executives Führungsqualität leadership ability Führungsspitze top management Führungsverantwortung managerial responsibility Fuhrunternehmer carter Fülle; Flut glut Füller filler Füllmaterial filling material Füllmaterial padding material Füllmaterial; Beiwerk padding Fundamt lost property office Fundbüro lost-property office fundiert sound standing fundierte Schuld fixed charge fünffach quintuplicate fünffach; in fünffacher Ausfertigung quintuplicate Fünfpfundnote; Fünfdollarnote fiver Funktion function Funktionär functionary funktionell functional Funktionsanalyse functional analysis Funktionsstörung malfunction für das Löschen for the purpose of unloading für den Bestimmungsort for the destination für den Export der Ware for the export of the goods für den Export geeignete Ware exportable goods für den Import abfertigen clear the goods for import für den Käufer akzeptabel acceptable to the buyer für den Schaden aufkommen to answer for damages für den vereinbarten Bestimmungshafen for the agreed port of destination für den Verkäufer for the seller für den Verkäufer akzeptabel acceptable to the seller für den Vorgang erforderlich required for the operation für den Vorgang üblich customary to the operation für den Zweck for the purpose für die Auslegung for the interpretation für die Einfuhr for the purpose of importing für die Einfuhr der Ware for the importation of the goods für die Handlung benötigte Zeit activity duration für die Lieferung eines Geräts for the supply of one unit für die Schulden haften liable for payment of the debts für die Seite des Frachtführers on the part of the carrier für die übliche Behandlung sorgen provide for customary conditioning für die Verantwortung for the liability to für die Verpackung der Ware sorgen provide for packing of the goods für die Verpackung der Ware sorgen provide the packing für die Verpackung der Ware zu sorgen provide the packing of the goods für die Verpackung sorgen provide the packing für die Versendung for the purpose of dispatching für die Zurverfügungstellung for putting them at the disposal für dieses Problem on this problem für ein Handelsgeschäft relating to a trading transaction
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Work of this kind, characteristic of its first decades, extended far into the nineteenth century.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

The Solway and its firth divide England from Scotland, and this borderland has been the scene of many deadly feuds, though happily only in the days long agone.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

Ut qui conducti plorant in funere dicunt et faciunt prope plora dolentibus ex animo.
— from The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Ellis Wynne

W.A. —God has spoken to some good men in former days, even from heaven, by plain words; and God has inspired good men by His Spirit; and they have written all His laws down in a book.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Amongst other such monsters and limmes of the diuell, there was one sir Richard Simond préest, a man of base birth, and yet well learned, but not so learned as wilie, nor so wilie as vngratious, delighting in fraud & deceit, euen from his youth.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

The too little known Rules and Instructions for Devout Exercises , found among Leighton’s papers, written with his own hand and for his own use, was Martyn’s ‘usual’ companion, with results which made that work [103] as supplemented by the Journal , what the De Imitatione Christi and the Theologia Germanica were to the more passive dark ages of Christendom.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

Lord Camelford's manuscript, which I have used so copiously, is an intimate family document entitled 'Family Characters and Anecdotes,' addressed to his son, and dated 1781.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

As we followed the waiter into the café, a group of half a dozen men, all in full dress, emerged from a side room and preceded us into the restaurant, led
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith