(?) Was du besitzest, kann ein Raub des Schicksals sein; / Was du besassest, bleibt für alle Zeiten dein —What you possess is at the mercy of fortune; what you possessed remains your own for ever. Lorm.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In several places we came on the tracks of deer, and my guide told me he had killed eleven roe during the last hunting season.
— from Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns by Edwin Swift Balch

The small round bullet-head, the straight light hair, high cheek-bones, grey keen eyes, rather deeply set beneath straight and slightly defined eye-brows, undemonstrative noses, with wide nostrils, large straight mouths, square jaws, and sharp chins, were common to the great majority of them.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

Thus the different forms of energy are measured by the same unit, and yet it seems that some of them, such as kinetic energy, really depend on time; while for others, such as potential energy, the dependency established by the system of measurement seems somewhat fictitious.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

[Pg 270] "The proofs of loyalty, which you have always given, suffice abundantly to prove it to me, Rodrigo." "Sire, dispose of my life and of all that I possess, for they are not sufficient to repay your kindness!" exclaimed Rodrigo, deeply moved.
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

The sign represents King Edgar rowed down the river Dee by the eight tributary kings.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

"I don't know," Edward replied distractedly.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill