Amor di state a mezzo'l giorno; Ardean le solve, ardean le piagge, e i colli.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Far back on the side of the head, and low down, near the angle of either whale’s jaw, if you narrowly search, you will at last see a lashless eye, which you would fancy to be a young colt’s eye; so out of all proportion is it to the magnitude of the head.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Note 1752 ( return ) [ There is a fancied connection between LAAS ('stone') and LAOS ('people').
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Then she seized Hansel with her shrivelled hand, carried him into a little stable, and locked him in behind a grated door.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

What inclined Eugenius to the same opinion was as follows: A few hours before Yorick breathed his last, Eugenius stept in with an intent to take his last sight and last farewell of him.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Once upon a time they used to produce men like Schiller and like—what's his name?—Goethe: for both of which authors my brother has a marked predilection.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I put it in a drawer with the lid shut and looked at the ceiling.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Gurla seemed to rise in the south directly from the water, its level skirts and low slopes being much foreshortened.
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin

Lessons in writing language are employed simultaneously with those in conversation, while picture-study, the study of literary selections, and letter-writing are presented at frequent intervals.
— from 'Round the Year in Myth and Song by Florence Holbrook

Kilowatt kingdom Königreich kind Art kind of business Art des Unternehmens kind of goods Warenart kite Gefälligkeitswechsel knocked-down price Spottpreis know-how Fachwissen; Fachkenntnisse knowingly wissentlich L lack of capital Kapitalmangel label Etikette label an article einen Artikel auszeichnen labeling Etikettierung; Preisauszeichnung labour Arbeit labour dispute Streitigkeit mit den Gewerkschaftsvertretern labour exchange Arbeitsamt labour force Arbeiterschaft labour grade Tätigkeitseinstufung labour market Arbeitsmarkt labour piracy Abwerbung labour relations Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Beziehungen labourer Arbeiter labour saving arbeitssparend laissez-faire wirtschaftsliberales Verhalten large-scale in großem Umfang land landen; ausladen land and buildings Grundstücke und Gebäude land acquisition Grunderwerb land agent Grundstücksmakler; Grundstücksverwalter landing charges Landegebühren landlady Hausherrin; Dame des Hauses landlord Grundherr; Hausherr land purchase tax Grunderwerbssteuer land register Grundbuch land value Grundstückswert landed property Liegenschaften landed property account
— from Mr. Honey's Small Business Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

After some delay in parleying, it was announced that General La Vega would receive our messenger on the right bank of the river, to which he immediately passed, accompanied by his aid-de-camp Lieutenant Smith, and Lieutenants Magruder, Deas, and Blake, attached to his staff, and Lieutenant Knowlton as interpreter.
— from History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Brantz Mayer

One of the lads who came in his boat, a thoroughly countrified-looking fellow, seemed to care very little about the vessel, rigging, or anything else, but went round looking at the live stock, and leaned over the pig-sty, and said he wished he was back again tending his father's pigs.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

[Pg 19] to her aid, and now has a system of long standing at last well matured.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

10 And on the riven gully’s very brow Lay spread at large the Cretan Infamy
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It was like sleep after long watching.
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden