The lieutenant in his turn looked searchingly at Kryukov and laughed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And when they were in prison, Sir Tristram asked a knight and lady whom they found therein wherefore they were so shamefully dealt with; “for,” said he, “it was never the custom of any place of honour that I ever came unto to seize a knight and lady asking shelter and thrust them into prison, and a full evil and discourteous custom is it.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

At that time, indeed, he kept them all in custody, but still bound the king's sons and kinsmen, and led them with him to Rome, in order to make them hostages for their country's fidelity to the Romans.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Selbstkostenrechnung cost accounting Selbstversicherung self-insurance Selbstwählfernverkehr (Br.); STD subscriber trunk dialing selten seldom Seltenheitswert scarcity value senden Sie uns einige Muster let us have some samples Sendung von Wertgegenständen consignment of valuables Sendung; Kommission consignment senior senior Senkung der Kosten lowering of costs Serie series Serie von Mahnbriefen colection sequence Serienfertigung serial production Serienfertigung series manufacturing serienmäßige Herstellung batched flow production Seriennummer serial number Serienrabatt series discount serienweise rückzahlbare Obligationen instalment bonds sesshafte Bevölkerung resident population setzen set setzen Sie den Betrag in Worten ein fill in the amount in words Show Business; Unterhaltungsgewerbe show business sich als ein anderer ausgebend passing off as sb. else sich als Kandidat aufstellen lassen offer oneself as a candidate sich an das Gesetz halten abide by the law sich an den Vertrag halten to abide by the contract sich an den Vertrag halten to stand to the contract sich an die Regeln halten abide by the rules sich an die Regeln halten to stand to the rules sich an die Vereinbarung halten to stand to the agreement sich an die Vorschrift halten abide by the regulation sich an die Vorschriften halten to stand to the regulations sich an eine Entscheidung halten abide by a decision sich an eine Frist halten adhere to a time limit sich an einen Vertrag halten abide by a contract sich an einen Vertrag halten to stand to a contract sich ändern vary sich ändernde Umstände altering circumstances sich ändernde Umstände changing circumstances sich angliedern affiliate sich anhäufen accumulate sich anstellen queue up sich auf einen Präzedenzfall berufen to quote a precedent sich auf etwas spezialisieren specialize in sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Sancho kept spitting from time to time, and his spittle seemed somewhat ropy and dry, observing which the compassionate squire of the Grove said, "It seems to me that with all this talk of ours our tongues are sticking to the roofs of our mouths; but I have a pretty good loosener hanging from the saddle-bow of my horse," and getting up he came back the next minute with a large bota of wine and a pasty half a yard across; and this is no exaggeration, for it was made of a house rabbit so big that Sancho, as he handled it, took it to be made of a goat, not to say a kid, and looking at it he said, "And do you carry this with you, senor?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

So up, and Creed and I to my wife again, and after a game or two at cards, to the Cockpitt, where we saw “Claracilla,” a poor play, done by the King’s house (but neither the King nor Queen were there, but only the Duke and Duchess, who did show some impertinent and, methought, unnatural dalliances there, before the whole world, such as kissing, and leaning upon one another); but to my very little content, they not acting in any degree like the Duke’s people.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But the Boii, having got intelligence of his approach, prepared an ambuscade; and as soon as his army had entered a certain wood, they rushed out upon it from every side and killed a large number of his men.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The famous navigator Cook, whose voyages were remarkable for the freedom from illness which his sailors enjoyed and the absence of scurvy, always kept a large supply of sauerkraut on hand.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

But I was aye hame at nicht, and she aye keepit a licht in the window when the nicht was dark and her shadow fell upon it, for she aye cam' oot to meet me when she heard me lilt the sang.
— from St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

Others, when lesson-time's begun, Go, half inclined to cry, Some in a walk, some in a run; But these went in a—Fly. I give to other little maids A smile, a kiss, a look, Presents whose memory quickly fades, I give to these—a Book.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

Do you wonder that I bought all my clubs of him, had a collection of his best scores, and kept a large 'photo of him in my room?
— from Torchy As A Pa by Sewell Ford

Wickersham shot at Keith a level glance from under his half-closed lids.
— from Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page

He writes with a sad sincerity a hundred years cannot hide: 'How shall a man obscurely situated, never in his life delighting in public entertainments, nor in his youth able to frequent them from narrowness of fortune; one of the most attentive of men to the calls of business—his situation for many years producing little but prospects of a numerous family—a business that seldom called him abroad when he might in the course of it see and know a little of the world, as some employments give opportunities to do—naturally shy and sheepish, and wanting more encouragement by smiles to draw him out than anybody thought it worth their while to give him
— from Res Judicatæ: Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell

The Esquimaux alone, he added, inhabit its shores, and kill a large fish that is found in it, which is a principal part { 263} of their food; this, we presumed, must; be the whale.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

To this old haunt he skated, and kindling a little fire, as an old campaigner loves to do, he sat down and lunched heartily on Mrs. Purtett's cold leg,—cannibal thought!—on the cold leg of Mrs. Purtett's yesterday's turkey.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He then permitted contracts to be made with the Jews, who are the only traders in the country; and the provisions stopped at Kowno at last arrived at Wilna, but the army had already left it.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de