“But the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of a fellow diplomat, “that the Chancellor told him flatly that his appointment to
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is of no colour known in this life and has a corrugated wooden crook for a handle, with a metallic object let into its prow, or beak, resembling a little model of a fanlight over a street door or one of the oval glasses out of a pair of spectacles, which ornamental object has not that tenacious capacity of sticking to its post that might be desired in an article long associated with the British army.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Only the eldest member of a family is cremated, the rest being buried.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

a man or a fish?
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

"You think her sensitive because she has soft little white hands, and big blue eyes with long lashes, and all manner of affected, fantastical ways, which you stupid men call fascinating.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

For these stitches, use either one material only, a fleecy thread like Coton à repriser D.M.C for instance, or else two, such as Coton à repriser D.M.C for the grounding, and a material with a strong twist like Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C or Fil à pointer D.M.C for the stem stitch.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Unlike the Essenes, they were not gathered together in convents as members of a fraternity, but lived apart as anchorites, though in the same neighbourhood.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In the second place, there are variations of point of view, of appeal of objects, and of mode of attack, from person to person.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Repeated meditations led me first to suspect,—(and a more intimate analysis of the human faculties, their appropriate marks, functions, and effects matured my conjecture into full conviction,)—that Fancy and Imagination were two distinct and widely different faculties, instead of being, according to the general belief, either two names with one meaning, or, at furthest, the lower and higher degree of one and the same power.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

a required right ein Etikett anbringen affix a label ein Exemplar dieses letztgenannten Dokuments a copy of this latter document ein Fach als Hauptfach studieren major in a subject ein Formblatt ausfüllen fill in a form ein Formblatt ausfüllen make out a form ein Formblatt ausfüllen to complete a form ein geeignetes Angebot a suitable offer ein Gehalt zahlen to pay a salary ein Geheimnis preisgeben to disclose a secret ein gemeinsames Ziel erreichen to achieve a common purpose ein genügendes Gewicht a sufficient weight ein geregelter Warenfluss; stetiger a steady flow of goods ein Gericht wird sich weigern a court will refuse to ein Gerichtsverfahren unterbrechen; aussetzen to abate legal proceedings ein
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

If it had been the case that, having a wife living, he had betrayed my sister into all the misery of a false marriage, and had made her the mother of a nameless child, I should have felt myself bound to punish him to every extent within my power.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

Compressors built on this system have shown the highest isothermal results, that is, by means of a finely divided spray of cold water the heat of compression has been absorbed to a point where the compressed air has been discharged at a temperature nearly equal to that at which it was admitted to the cylinder.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 by Various

A literary man or a flunkey, as you like.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

It is an ancient story, consecrated by the undying verse of Homer, that a ship, with all its canvas spread, was suddenly changed into a rock at the very mouth of a frequented harbor; and thus the instrument of commerce became an impediment to commerce:— “Fixèd forever, a memorial stone, Which still may seem to sail, and seem alone.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

If you pay it on the initiatory matriculation of a first journey, you may depend upon never getting any of it back; when on having studied anew the "art of self-defence," to protect you against another art, which you must also study, in close connexion with the " belle arti ," you are become really an adept, and duly qualified for that diploma.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

De Blenau well knew that this person, who was by birth just within the rank of a gentleman (which word was then in France one of great significance), had been placed in the service of Anne of Austria for the purpose of acting as a spy upon her, from Richelieu’s fear of her correspondence with Spain; but informed, as the Count now was, of the Queen’s wishes, it was perfectly indifferent to him who appeared on her behalf; his only object being, that his mistress’s commands, publicly expressed, should, in the minds of all, free him from the imputation of having betrayed her.
— from Richelieu: A Tale of France, v. 3/3 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Bake in moderate oven at first, then increase the heat; bake slowly.
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

“The enemy,” says Pottinger, “opened a heavy fire on them until they found out who they were, when they tried to drive them back with sticks and stones; but Naib Dustoo, to whom the business was entrusted, liker a fiend than a man, opened a fire upon the wretched citizens from the works, and the Persians thus let them pass.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir