Kashi, lost and rediscovered end of class="blockgraphic" My brother Bishnu; Motilal Mukherji of Serampore, a highly advanced disciple of Sri Yukteswar; my father; Mr. Wright; myself; Tulsi Narayan Bose; Swami Satyananda of Ranchi end of class="blockgraphic" A group of delegates to the 1920 International Congress of Religious Liberals at Boston, where I gave my maiden speech in America.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The bride, attired and adorned like a Roman empress, was placed on a throne of state; and the king of the Goths, who assumed, on this occasion, the Roman habit, contented himself with a less honorable seat by her side.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Nay, more, to render their mode of speech more succinct, they personify the subject of these abstract terms, and make it act like a real entity.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And after that, the bridesmaids begin to come by rail-road from various parts of the country, and to come like adorable recruits enlisted by a sergeant not present; for, on arriving at the Veneering depot, they are in a barrack of strangers.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

si` aguti, con questa orazion picciola, al cammino, che a pena poscia li avrei ritenuti; e volta nostra poppa nel mattino, de' remi facemmo ali al folle volo, sempre acquistando dal lato mancino.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

—Red Eagle Lake and Red Eagle Creek, both above and below the lake, abound in large cutthroat trout, some attaining the weight of 7 pounds.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

Eilzustellung express delivery ein Abenteuer aufgeben abandon an adventure ein Akkreditiv eröffnen open a letter of credit ein Akkreditivändern to amend a credit ein Akzept einlösen discharge an acceptance ein anderer Bezogener any other drawee ein anderes ähnliches Dokument unterschreiben to sign another similar instrument ein Angebot machen tender ein Angebot; eine Auswahl an Produkten a choice of products ein Anrecht verlieren lose a right ein Auftrag an order ein außergewöhnliches Angebot an exceptional offer ein Beispiel hierfür ist an example is ein beträchtliches Einkommen a sizable income ein Blatt Papier einspannen to insert a sheet of paper ein Buch besprechen to review a book ein Buch in kurze Fassung bringen abridge a book ein
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

You must indeed learn and remember eighty-five characters instead of twenty-five [ sic ].
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Economic life continues, in part because much activity is local and relatively easily protected.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Your mind wasn't really like a tooth; it was like a robust, energetic body, happy when it was doing difficult and dangerous things, balancing itself on heights, lifting great weights of thought, following the long march into thick, smoky battles.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

Thus did she inherit a large and rich estate, whereon she lived piously and virtuously and in her husband’s love.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

[Manuel VILLAR]; Nationalist People's Coalition or NPC [Frisco SAN JUAN]; PDP-Laban [Aquilino PIMENTEL]; People's Reform Party [Miriam Defensor SANTIAGO]; Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino (Force of the Philippine Masses) or PMP [Joseph ESTRADA]; United Opposition or UNO [Jejomar BINAY] note: Lakas-CMD and Kampi merged on 29 May 2009 to form Lakas-Kampi CMD Political pressure groups and leaders: ABONO [Robert ESTRELLA]; AKBAYAN [Anna Theresia BARAQUIEL]; An Waray [Florencio NOEL]; Anak Mindanao [Mujiv HATAMIN]; ANAKPAWIS [Rafael MARIANO]; ARC [Narciso SANTIAGO III]; Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

High up among the mountains to the eastward is the Devil's Lake, a beautiful crescent-shaped sheet of water much like a river, eleven miles long, and enclosed by towering peaks.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Our fire had sunk to a few dull embers, and Puketawa's pipe glowed like a red eye from the darkness.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various

There comes up the street a lad with two rolls of bread under his arm, and eating a third roll, his pockets full of the simpler necessities of clothing, which must have made him look like a ragman; everything about him was [140] queer and seemingly wrong.
— from True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Hezekiah Butterworth