Then the Emperor instantly has the top of his chamber thrown open, and having marked the cranes he casts one of his gerfalcons, whichever he pleases; and often the quarry is struck within his view, so that he has the most exquisite sport and diversion, there as he sits in his chamber or lies on his bed; and all the Barons with him get the enjoyment of it likewise!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In 1860, after a long engagement, Rossetti married Elizabeth Siddal, a delicate, beautiful English girl, whom he has immortalized both in his pictures and in his poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

And so it appears that all these five blocks of buildings are at work, and inferior cotton is sold in the Eastern markets, simply that Christina Dmitryevna may eat sterlet and drink Madeira."
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But how much more effective such a deliverance would be if the papers were cast aside!
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

“Holy Abraham!” returned the Jew, finding voice through the very extremity of his danger, “heard man ever such a demand?—Who ever heard, even in a minstrel's tale, of such a sum as a thousand pounds of silver?—What human sight was ever blessed with the vision of such a mass of treasure?—Not within the walls of York, ransack my house and that of all my tribe, wilt thou find the tithe of that huge sum of silver that thou speakest of.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

And one night I went in with a fellow into one of their musical evenings, song and dance about she could get up on a truss of hay she could my Maureen Lay and there was a fellow with a Ballyhooly blue ribbon badge spiffing out of him in Irish and a lot of colleen bawns going about with temperance beverages and selling medals and oranges and lemonade and a few old dry buns, gob, flahoolagh entertainment, don’t be talking.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Balty tells me the case of The Henery; and it was, indeed, most extraordinary sad and desperate.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

These obviously ought to be made extremely slender and delicate, for when they are large, their weight carries them down, and they cannot support themselves.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

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

Susan's journal contains many entries such as, "Did a large washing to-day....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

It was the habit of Dr. Tichenor to preach to the slaves of Montgomery, every Sunday afternoon, during his long pastorate in that city.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

I have no doubt that these are sufficiently accurate at least for all practical purposes of geographical exploration in this country, until more exact surveys are demanded by the opening of some industry or commerce, should that time ever come.
— from Along Alaska's Great River A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Schwatka

That’s why they make every State a different color; it ain’t to deceive you, it’s to keep you from deceiving yourself.”
— from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

"In it we discover a firm grasp of Divine truth, marked expository skill, a deeply spiritual and reverent manner of approaching the subject....
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton

Two alternatives were offered him—he must either swear a dreadful oath that he would not issue a line of his poetry while he was in the Czar’s dominions, or else remain under guard on board the ship until we were safe at Constantinople again.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

"But there's one thing, child, that troubles me and always has troubled me, especially since Abram died.
— from The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall

Miss Mary C. Hinkley , Miss Mary E. Smith and Dr. H. H. Hunt L.Ms 33.41 Limerick.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 2, February, 1882 by Various

Of this writer's works a very small proportion survives in the original Greek; but that little is such as might well make every scholar and divine lament the calamity which theology and literature have sustained by the loss of the author's own language.
— from Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

As a fact, the missionary everywhere sees arrested development, imperfect communion with God; for the different forms of religion realise the end of religion in different degrees.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons