He had wandered into a maze of narrow and dirty streets.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

We know not at all precisely what are all the conditions most favourable for the multiplication of new and dominant species; but we can, I think, clearly see that a number of individuals, from giving a better chance of the appearance of favourable variations, and that severe competition with many already existing forms, would be highly favourable, as would be the power of spreading into new territories.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

sämtliche Meldungen oder Nachrichten all documents sent for collection alle zum Inkasso übersandten Dokumente all other stipulations of the credit alle anderen Bedingungen des Kredits all parties concerned alle beteiligten Parteien all-time peak absoluter Höchststand allocation Zuteilung allocation of foreign exchange Devisenzuteilung allocation of funds
— from Mr. Honey's Small Banking Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

He unhobbled the beast, hung on by the mane, mounted, and set off bare-back for the road to Gambrevault. XXVIII Dawn climbing red over pinewoods piled on the hills; dawn optimistic yet ominous, harbinger of war and such perils as set the heart leaping and the blood afire; dawn that cried unto the world, "Better one burst of heroism and then the grave, than a miserable monotony of nothingness, a domestic surfeiting of the senses with a wife and a fat larder."
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

The coffee tree here begins to flower in the months of March and April, and the berry ripens in the plains of San Jose in the months of November and December, strongly resembling a wild cherry in form and appearance, being covered with a similar sweet pulp.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

Presently she was gone, all the warmth and comfort and hope of the world expiring in her descent: there was no more a Shining Light ; and we three folk were cast away on a broad pan of ice, in the midst of night and driving snow.
— from The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan

Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 124: "The beautiful species of clematis called aristata, which may be seen in the months of November and December, spreading forth its milk-white blossoms over the shrubs . . .
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

in ing , (" The books continue SELLING") — Verbs , Modifications of, named —Moods of, named and defined; (see Infinitive Mood, Indic.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown