An old fellow with a very long gray beard came to meet her, and told her that if she would be his servant and do everything he bade her, she might live, if not he would kill her.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The walls of Narbonne had been shaken by the battering engines, and the inhabitants had endured the last extremities of famine, when Count Litorius, approaching in silence, and directing each horseman to carry behind him two sacks of flour, cut his way through the intrenchments of the besiegers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“I know that the king of France is well served,” returned the unmoved Scotsman, as soon as Duncan ended his translation; “but my own royal master has as many and as faithful troops.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

To him, in that moment, it seemed the most shattering and dislocating experience he had ever known, so that his heart emptied itself of all feeling whatsoever as by a sudden draught.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

All she could see was that his former stern and determined expression had altered to one of timidity and submission.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Then prithee, how was it known?” “Certain witness did see them wending thither, good your Majesty; this bred the suspicion, and dire effects have since confirmed and justified it.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

But chief ’twere sweet to think such life (Though but escape from fortune’s strife), Something most matchless good and wise, A great and grateful sacrifice; And deem each hour to musing given A step upon the road to heaven.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

So we boiled my son, and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Druck pressure Druck auf den Geldmarkt pressure on the money market drücken sqeeze down drucken; Druck print drückende Hypothek burden of a mortgage drückende Last heavy burden drückende Schulden burden of debts drückende Steuern burden of taxes Druckerei print shop Druckerei printers' shop Druckerei printing plant Druckerei printing shop druckfertig printable Druckort place of printing druckreif ready for press Drucksache printed matter Dubiose bad debt Dubiose bad debts Dubiose doubtful accounts Dubiose dubious debts Dubiose uncollectible receivables dubiose Außenstände doubtful debts Dubiosekonto delinquent account Dumping; Preisschleuderei dumping Dumping; Unterbietung dumping Dünndruckausgabe der Zeitung air edition Duplikat; zweifach duplicate durch by the use of durch Abstammung erworbene Staatsbürgerschaft nationality by descent durch Akzeptleistung by acceptance durch Angabe by indicating durch automatische Datenverarbeitung by automatic data processing durch automatische Datenverarbeitung by methods of automated data processing durch das Löschen by reason of the unloading durch den Vertrag bedingt involved in the contract durch die avisierende Bank through the advising bank durch die Benennung einer Bank by nominating a bank durch die bisherigen Richtlinien by existing rules durch die Einfuhr by reason of the importing durch die Hintertür through the back-door durch die Zulassung der Negoziierung by allowing for negotiation durch diese Grenze getrennt separated by that frontier durch Dokumente belegt documentary durch eigene Arbeit verdientes Einkommen earned income durch ein drittes Land through another country durch ein oder mehrere Drittländer through one or more countries durch ein Telekommunikationsmittel beauftragen instruct by any teletransmission durch eine andere Bank through another bank durch eine Hypothek abdecken cover by a mortgage durch einen bevollmächtigten Beauftragten by a duly accredited agent durch einen einzigen Schiedsrichter by a sole arbitrator durch einen Hinweis in dem Kredit by wording in the credit durch einen Schiedsrichter by one arbitrator durch einen Zusatz by adding words to this effect durch einfache Übergabe by simple delivery durch elektronische Datenverarbeitung by methods of electronic data processing durch Erfüllung by performance durch Ermächtigung einer Bank zu handeln by authorizing a bank to act durch Ersuchen einer Bank zu handeln by requesting a bank to act durch Frachtführer by public carrier durch Geburt erworbene Staatsbürgerschaft nationality by birth durch Handschlag by handshake durch Handzeichen show of hands durch hinausgeschobene Zahlung by deferred payment durch Indossament begeben; übertragen negotiate by endorsement durch Indossament oder auf anderem Wege by endorsement or otherwise durch Indossament sicherstellen providing by endorsement durch Indossierung by endorsement durch irgendeine Bank by any bank durch mehrere Schiedsrichter by more arbitrators durch Negoziierung by negotiation durch nichtbegebbare Dokumente by non-negotiable instruments durch Sichtzahlung by sight payment durch Testament by will durch unerlaubte Mittel; auf unerlaubte Weise by unfair means durch Unfall verursacht accidental durch Unmöglichkeit der Erfüllung by impossibility durch Vereinbarung by agreement durch
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Marlowe would fain have waited to learn the culmination of the train of action thus set in motion, but he knew that every move had been for his benefit; and so, as darkness enveloped him, he drew back the tapestry and pressed upon a mullion of the walled window.
— from It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

He might not have been as pleased to know that his extraordinary performance had solved a difficulty, effaced his other graces, and enabled them to place him on the moral pedestal of a mere musician, to whom these eccentricities were allowable and privileged.
— from A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

As soon as Don Estevan had left him, Don Fernando threw himself into the hammock, and closed his eyes.
— from The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure by Gustave Aimard

Note high, wide forehead, prominent at brows; keen, shrewd and determined expression; high, wide head; height of head just above temples; square jaw and chin; firm mouth; short upper lip, and well-built, prominent nose.
— from Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life by Arthur Newcomb

The manner in which the Indians declare war against each other, is by sending a slave with a hatchet, the handle of which is painted red, to the nation which they intend to break with; and the messenger, notwithstanding the danger to which he is exposed from the sudden fury of those whom he thus sets at defiance, executes his commission with great fidelity.
— from Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 by Jonathan Carver

Artists in life, if that expression may be used for those who have beautified social and domestic existence, have appealed continually to these lower senses.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 12: 2 Kings by Anonymous