LA MÉFIANCE EST MÈRE DE LA SÛRETÉ Un particulier avait la réputation de bien faire le café.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

8 men, Say 30 inhabitents- Those people are friendly gave us to eate fish Beries, nuts bread of roots & Drid beries and we Call this the friendly Village We purchased 12 dogs of them & 4 Sacks of Pounded fish, and Some fiew Dried Berries and proceeded on at 4 miles further we landed to Smoke a pipe with the people of a village of 11 houses we found those people also friendly Their Village is Situated imediately below the mouth of a River of 60 yards water which falls in on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

There has not been the slightest attempt at rhetorical display, but only an endeavor to tell in plain, simple language the story of the life and work of one who was born into the simplicity and straightforwardness of the Society of Friends and never departed from them.
— 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

when they have collected a considerable quantity of these roots or 20 30 bushels which they readily do by means of stick sharpened at one end, they dig away the surface of the earth forming a circular concavity of 21/2 feet in the center and 10 feet in diameter; they next collect a parsel of split dry wood with which they cover this bason in the grown perhaps a foot thick, they next collect a large parsel of stones of about 4 or 6 lbs.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The functions of this tribunal did not differ much from those of the royal châtellenies: its jurisdiction embraced quarrels between individuals, assaults, revolts, disputes between the universities and the students, and improper conduct generally ( ribaudailles ), in consequence of which the provost acquired the popular surname of Roi des Ribauds .
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

ist nicht verpflichtet zu the bank has no obligation to die Bank muss benachrichtigen the bank must advise die Bank muß dies mitteilen the bank must give notice to this effect die Bank muss entscheiden the bank must determine die Bank öffnet wieder the bank reopens die Bank schließt the bank closes die Bedeutung des Streitfalls the importance of the dispute die Bedingungen eines Vertrags übernehmen to adopt a contract die Bedingungen sind erfüllt the conditions are complied with die Bedingungen sind erfüllt the terms are complied with die Beförderung der
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

“Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling,” replied De Bracy; “but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was ev'ry thing by Starts, and nothing long; But, in the Course of one revolving Moon, Was Chemist, Fidler, Statesman, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking: Besides ten thousand Freaks that dy'd in thinking.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

South Africa has, it is true, some striking peculiarities; but they are absolutely unimportant as compared with the great and radical differences between tropical Africa and tropical Asia.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

The good Gordons steeped hose and shoes in the blood of the English; the Lindsays flew about like fire till the battle was ended, and Percy and Montgomery fought till the blood ran down between them.
— from Stories of the Scottish Border by William Platt

When, in 1515, this Prince succeeded his father-in-law on the throne, he promised the young Duke of Lorraine the hand of Louis XII.'s widow, Mary of England; but the fair Dowager had already plighted her troth to Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Antoine consoled himself with another Princess of the blood royal, Renée de Bourbon, daughter of Gilbert de Montpensier and Chiara Gonzaga.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

This will at once be perceived to express the remaining distinction between the lower and the higher stages of positive knowledge.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Aunt Hannah ( e.An. ), the white arabis, Arabis alpina ; Bloody Warrior (common), the dark-coloured wallflower; Bobbin Joan ( Nhp. ), the wild arum; Bouncing Bess ( Dev. ), the red valerian, Centranthus ruber ; Delicate Bess ( Dev. ), the white valerian, Valeriana celtica ; Bridget in her bravery ( Lin. ), the rose-campion, Lychnis chalcedonica ;
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

In this case AT = AB / sin(A T B) * sin( A B T), and hence it will only be necessary to multiply the range reading on the galvanometer by the sine of the angle A B T, which can be read directly by the observer at B. This multiplication is not difficult, but by suitably arranging his electrical appliances Lieutenant Fiske has succeeded in getting rid of it, so that the reading of the galvanometer always gives the range by direct reading, no matter what the angle at B may be.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

Ellos no han de vivir en esta tierra; ¿para qué interesarse por sus montañas rosadas de bizarras formas, y sus calles blancas, con dobles filas de altos cocoteros?
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

Holding up with one strong arm the naked body of the poor child—she had drawn the clothes over her head—the infuriated woman was raining down blows from a short piece of rattan upon the quivering flesh, already covered with welts and bruises.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur