J'aime mieux ma mie —I love my lass better.
— 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.

[1484] Ludovicus Mercatus, l. 2. de mulierum affect.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

lox m. lynx , BH, WW.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostóv was serving under Denísov, to return to the bridge.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Compose yourself, senora, and endeavour to calm your excitement lest my lord find you agitated; and leave the rest to my care and God’s, who always supports good intentions.” Anselmo had with the deepest attention listened to and seen played out the tragedy of the death of his honour, which the performers acted with such wonderfully effective truth that it seemed as if they had become the realities of the parts they played.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Why—do you mean that you've been overtaken?" She shrugged her shoulders, with a little movement like Nastasia's, and rejoined in a lighter tone: "Shall we walk on?
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The heterogeneous crowd is composed of tout le monde , of people like you, like me, like the first passer-by.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I was left on the steppe, alone; I had lost my last hope.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Werte artistic merits künstlerischer Leiter art director künstlich artificial künstliche Beleuchtung artificial lighting Kupon abtrennen detach a coupon Kurierpost courier mail Kurs am freien Markt rate on the fee market Kurs unter pari price below par Kurs; Preis rate Kursänderung change in prices Kursänderung change of rates Kursanstieg rise in the market Kursblatt list of quotations Kursblatt quotation list Kursbuch railway guide Kursdifferenz difference in rates Kurserhöhung price increase Kurserhöhung; Anstieg der Preise appreciation of prices Kursgefüge price structure Kursgewinn advance Kursgewinn capital gain Kursgewinn exchange profit Kursgewinn market profit Kursgewinn price gain Kursgewinn des Börsenhändlers jobber's turn Kursindex price index number Kursivbuchstaben italics Kursivschrift italic type Kursnotierung market quotation Kursnotierung price quotation Kursnotierung quotation Kursnotierung quotation of prices Kursparität parity of exchange Kurspflege price management Kursrisiko exchange risk Kursrisiko; Umtauschrisiko foreign exchange risk Kursrückgang decline in prices Kursschwankung currency fluctuation Kursschwankungen price fluctuations Kurssicherung rate guarantee Kursstand price level Kurssteigerung price advance Kurssturz price drop Kurstabelle exchange table Kursverlust loss by exchange Kursverlust price loss Kursverlust; Abschlag disagio Kurswert market value Kurszettel price list Kurszettel rate sheet Kurszettel stock exchange list kurz short kurz short-time kurz fassen condense kurz gefasst; Kurzfassung abstract kurz; knapp short kurz; kurz einweisen; kurz unterrichten brief Kurzanschrift abbreviated address kurzarbeiten work short-time Kurzdarstellung; Übersicht abstract kurze Terminsicherung short hedge kurze Verzögerung short delay kurze Wiedergabe des Sachverhalts narration kürzen cut kürzen; komprimieren; zusammendrücken to compress Kurzfassung abstract Kurzfassung precis Kurzfassung eines Buches abridgement of a book Kurzfilm; kurzer Filmstreifen filmlet Kurzform short form kurzfristig at short notice kurzfristig short dated kurzfristig short-dated kurzfristig short-term kurzfristige Anlagewerte short-maturing securities kurzfristige Kapitalanlage temporary investment kurzfristige Verbindlichkeiten short-term obligations kurzfristige Verschuldung short-term debt kurzfristige Verschuldung short-term indebtedness kurzfristiger Wechsel short-dated bill kurzfristiges Darlehen call loan kurzfristiges Darlehen call money kurzfristiges Darlehen day-to-day loan kurzfristiges Darlehen demand loan kurzfristiges Geld short-term money kurzfristiges Geschäft machen be in and out again of the market kurzlebige Verbrauchsgüter perishables Kurznachrichten news in brief Kurzschrift shorthand Kürzung der Löhne cutting of wages Kürzung des Kontingents reduction of quota Kürzung eines Textes abbreviation of a text Kurzuntersuchung check study Kurzwarenhändler haberdasher Kurzwarenhandlung; Kurzwarenabteilung haberdashery Kurzzeitanalyse short-run analysis Kurzzeitverhalten short-run behaviour Küstendampfer coastal steamer Küstenschifffahrt coasting trade Küstenwache coast guards L Labor; Laboratorium laboratory Laborassistent laboratory assistant Laboreinrichtungen laboratory facilities Labortechniker laboratory technician Labortest laboratory test Ladebewegung loading movement Ladefähigkeit load capacity Laden shop Laden an der Ecke; Tante-Emma Laden corner shop Laden der mit reduzierten Preisen verkauft discount shop laden; beladen; Ladung load Ladenausstattung store fittings Ladenbesitzer owner of a shop Ladendiebstahl shoplifting Ladenhüter dead article
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

‘Bless my life!’ said the little man, looking at his watch, ‘I appointed them to be here at half-past eleven, to settle that matter of yours, Pickwick.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

You know that I have lost my lover, that I discarded him rashly, unjustly, in pride and anger.
— from The Senator's Favorite by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

You tell yourself that it is the crumbling brick and wood work setting ever a little more towards destruction; but it seems rather as if the years-laden habitation had acquired a sentient being of its own; that when, like the aged, it lies wakeful in the night, the memories of the past come back to it; that it laments, with sighs, lost life, lost mirth, lost dignity.
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle

In our opinion, this malady originates in a disturbance of the cerebral nerve power; but it is due much less to the retention of sperm than to its exaggerated loss; much less to virtuous abstinence than to moral depravity."
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

"If he goes on in this way much longer," continued Father Johannes, "there will soon be very little mortal left of him; the saints will claim him."
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Hiram stretched his limbs more lengthily before the peats, as a soothing gurgle from the pantry told him that Martha was already filling him a measure.
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

By Laura M. Lane.
— from S. W. Partridge & Co. Catalogue of Popular Illustrated Books, 1904 by England) S. W. Partridge & Co. (London

I haven't loafed my life away." "Oh, it isn't what you've got, and it isn't what you've done exactly.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

Every line of this book has been written in the conviction that the real history of Masonry is great enough, and its simple teaching grand enough, without the embellishment of legend, much less of occultism.
— from The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton

"He let me look at every piece of luggage that was taken off the ship.
— from Space Station 1 by Frank Belknap Long