I hear lapping water, level with me, and some creaking as of wood on wood.”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Arbeiter workers' representative for bonus Akkordzeit incentive time Akkordzeit; Vorgabezeit standard time Akkordzettel job sheet Akkreditiv letter of credit Akkreditivantrag application for a letter of credit Akkreditiv-Bedingunen credit terms Akkreditive sind getrennte Geschäfte credits are separate transactions akkumuliertes Kapital accumulated capital Akte; Datei file Aktenschrank filing cabinet Aktentasche briefcase Aktenzeichen reference number Aktien besitzen hold shares Aktien der Elektronikindustrie electronics shares Aktien der Gummiindustrie rubber shares Aktien der Maschinenbauindustrie engineering shares Aktien der Nahrungsmittelindustrie foods shares Aktien der Schiffsbauindustrie shipbuilding shares Aktien für die Direktoren management shares Aktien hereinnehmen to take in shares Aktien mit garantierter Dividende debenture stock Aktien zeichnen subscribe for shares Aktien zuteilen allot shares Aktienbank joint stock bank Aktienbank joint-stock bank Aktienbesitz holding of shares Aktienbesitz shareholdings Aktienbesitz stockholding Aktienemission issue of shares Aktiengesellschaft joint stock company Aktiengesellschaft joint-stock company Aktiengesellschaft public limited company Aktiengesellschaft (US) corporation Aktienindex index of stocks Aktienkapital capital stock Aktienkapital equity Aktienkapital joint-stock capital Aktienkapital share capital Aktienkurs price of shares Aktienmarkt shares market Aktienmehrheit majority of shares Aktiennotierung stock quotation Aktienpaket block of shares Aktienübertragung stock transfer Aktienübertragung ohne Namensnennung blank transfer Aktienverkauf ohne Beschränkung open market Aktienzertifikat share certificate Aktionär shareholder Aktionär stock holder Aktionär stockholder Aktionärsvereinigung association of shareholders Aktiva und Passiva assets and liabilities Aktivbilanz favourable balance aktive Handelsbilanz active trade balance aktive Handelsbilanz favourable balance of trade aktiver Teilhaber active partner aktiver Teilhaber general partner aktives Unternehmen operating company aktivieren activate aktivieren capitalize Aktivierung der Geschäfte activation of trade Aktivität; Handlung activity Aktivität; Tätigkeit; Arbeit; Handlung activity Aktivitätsdauer activity duration
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Martine turned to the right to enter “La Martiniere,” the farm of her father, Jean Martin, and she cast a glance behind her as she turned round.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Neither those stories nor my quotations always serve simply for example, authority, or ornament; I do not only regard them for the use I make of them: they carry sometimes besides what I apply them to, the seed of a more rich and a bolder matter, and sometimes, collaterally, a more delicate sound both to myself who will say no more about it in this place, and to others who shall be of my humour.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"I should like to have seen Jenny very much," said I, "for I am sure she would have told me all she could about this lady, whom I am very anxious indeed—you cannot think how anxious—to overtake.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In this perplexity, an officer of experience proposed a measure, secure by the appearance of rashness; that the Roman army should cautiously advance along the seashore, while the fleet preceded their march, and successively cast a bridge of boats over the mouths of the rivers, the Timavus, the Brenta, the Adige, and the Po, that fall into the Adriatic to the north of Ravenna.
— 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

I was going to add my consolations to those of Madame Perrodon when Mademoiselle De Lafontaine placed her hand upon my arm, saying: "Don't approach, one at a time is as much as she can at present converse with; a very little excitement would possibly overpower her now."
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

This led to subjective differences of opinion, not to say objective interchanges of boot-jacks, backgammon boards, and other such domestic missiles, between Fledgeby's father and Fledgeby's mother, and those led to Fledgeby's mother spending as much money as she could, and to Fledgeby's father doing all he couldn't to restrain her.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

At Blank-Blank Square;—for we will break no squares By naming streets: since men are so censorious, And apt to sow an author's wheat with tares, Reaping allusions private and inglorious, Where none were dreamt of, unto love's affairs, Which were, or are, or are to be notorious, That therefore do I previously declare, Lord Henry's mansion was in Blank-Blank Square.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“Speaking materially of race horses quite outside of the moral aspect,” said Crane, as he was taking his leave, “you'll have to be mighty careful of that Diablo, Mr. Porter, when Miss Allis is about; he seems a vindictive brute.”
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

One fine May morning, as she cantered along the avenue at Brandon Beeches on a powerful bay horse, the gates at the end opened and a young man sped through them on a bicycle.
— from An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw

"Perhaps the poor creature wants to turn back and die in his bed, like a Christian, even if he isn't one," thought Mary, as she called and called, Leander still emitting the most inhuman of cries, like the sounds [pg 266] made by deaf mutes in distress.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

So she revelled in investigations of gilding and yellow satin, ormolu and marble, big mirrors and Sevres clocks, a three-piled carpet, and a dazzling prismatic chandelier, though all was pervaded with such a chill of unused dampness and odour of fustiness, that Caroline’s first impression was that it was a perilous place for one so lately recovered.
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Viola, entering, put on the most manly air she could assume, and affecting the fine courtier language of great men's pages, she said to the veiled lady, "Most radiant, exquisite, and matchless beauty, I pray you tell me if you are the lady of the house; for I should be sorry to cast away my speech upon another; for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken great pains to learn [Pg 211] it."—"Whence
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

He must allege some cause, and offer'd fight Will not dare mention, lest a question rise Whether he durst accept the offer or not;
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

This was attempted in a surprise movement at Spavinaw Creek and accomplished with some measure of success.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel

Giving him no time to recover, he made a sweeping cut at Gunrig’s neck, which, had it fallen, would have shorn his head from his shoulders, but the chief, instead of guarding it, suddenly stooped, and, as the sword passed whistling above him, returned with a thrust so fierce that it pierced right through the thick shield opposed to it.
— from The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Thomas withdrew, and the Major and Mr. Moon took up the Englishman's position on the hearthrug with coat-tails wide apart to allow the grateful warmth free access to whatever chillness of morning air still clung about their bodies.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie