But precisely because sailors' luck has led me into these seas on March 21, it will be easy to get our bearings if the noonday sun does appear before our eyes."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Where there is no specific difference, as between round and square, all definition must be more or less arbitrary.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

to his bank seine Beschwerde vortragen to state one's grievance seine Bestätigung hinzuzufügen to add one's confirmation seine eigenen Transportmittel benutzen use his own means of transport seine Familie verlassen abandon one's family seine Pflicht erfüllen to carry out one's duty seine Stelle verlieren to lose one's job seine Verpflichtung erfülle fulfil his obligation seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen to earn a living seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen to earn one's livelihood seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen to get a living seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen to make a living seinen Unterhalt verdienen to earn one's keep seinen Zweck erreichen to gain one's end seit 1980 since 1980 seit deren Einführung im Jahre since their introduction in Seitennummer page number seitens der avisierenden Bank on the part of the advising bank seitens Dritter on the part of any third partes Seitenschublade side drawer Sekretär; Sekretärin secretary Sekretariat secretariat Sekretärinnenschreibtisch secretarial desk Sektor sector Sekundawechsel second bill of exchange Sekundawechsel second of exchange selbst wenn even if selbständig self-dependent selbständige Einzelhändler independent shops selbständiger Kaufmann established merchant Selbstbedienung self-service Selbstbedienungsladen self-service outlet Selbstbedienungsladen self-service shop Selbstbedienungsladen self-service store Selbsterhaltung self-preservation Selbstfinanzierung auto-financing Selbstfinanzierung self-financing selbstgemacht home made selbstklebender Umschlag self-seal envelope selbstkontrollierter
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Upon the slightest and most unreasonable pretences, as well as upon accusations the most absurd and groundless, their persons and property were exposed to every turn of popular fury; for Norman, Saxon, Dane, and Briton, however adverse these races were to each other, contended which should look with greatest detestation upon a people, whom it was accounted a point of religion to hate, to revile, to despise, to plunder, and to persecute.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Natínà sa dugù ang bindáhi, The bandage is stained with blood.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nagtampuug sa dálan ang buldúsir, The bulldozer is looming large on the road.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She felt she would give her hand to be cut off rather than hurt this miserable girl who had sinned and suffered, and now stood desperately at bay.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Each branch is armed with two opposite lateral rows of numerous small denticles, and bears a terminal spathilla with six to eight recurved radial teeth.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

It made Peggy quite sad to think that the little creatures were mostly bought for the mines, and that, once broken and trained, they would never see daylight again, but spend their lives drawing trucks up and down the low galleries underground, having said good-bye to their native moorlands for ever.
— from A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil

But that, I felt again, would scarcely account for it; for, however sincere may be Jack’s attachment to his shipmates whilst they are alive and with him, they are no sooner dead and buried than, from his quickly acquired habit of promptly casting behind him all disquieting memories, he forgets all about them and their fate.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

De Lord wudn't whip a w'ite man no sooner dan a brack one—He tinks de w'ite juss so good as de brack (good Southern doctrine, I thought).
— from Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time by James R. (James Roberts) Gilmore

Never surely did a book appear so aptly.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 by Various