Amongst a nation where aristocracy predominates in society, and keeps it stationary, the people in the end get as much accustomed to poverty as the rich to their opulence.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

jem. anstellen engage sich verrechnen miscalculate sich verschlechternde Zahlungsbilanz deteriorating balance of payments sich versichern lassen have one's life assured sich vorbehalten reserved to himself sich widersprechend; conflicting sich wiederholendes Arbeitselement repetitive element sich zurückhalten abstain from sich zurückziehen retire sich zurückziehen von back out of sich zusammentun to joint together sicher safe sicher angelegt safely invested sicher aufbewahren keep in safe custody sicher und einfach (adv.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

They took charge of everything that was submitted in writing to the plebs, to the populace, and to the senate, and kept it, so that nothing that was done escaped their notice.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Some odd methods of locomotion were practised in this part of the country, such as children riding in nets of coarse cord suspended from opposite ends of a pole carried by a man on his shoulder, women riding in pairs on packhorses, and in the flat plain between Séki and Kuwana in small open omnibuses, not unlike the costermonger's carts in which fruit is hawked about the streets of London, but drawn by a man instead of a donkey; perhaps half-a-dozen grown-up persons in one of these small vehicles, the precursors of the jinrikisha [pg 214] which came into vogue in 1869.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

First stooping and kissing it, she put it into my trousers with some difficulty, buttoned me up, and we strolled towards the house.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I beg you, be so good as to mark me for a pass, because...” The argument which all the sluggards bring forward on their own behalf is always the same; they have passed well in all their subjects and have only come to grief in mine, and that is the more surprising because they have always been particularly interested in my subject and knew it so well; their failure has always been entirely owing to some incomprehensible misunderstanding.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Athos, on horseback, without his sword and kept in sight by Comminges, followed the cardinal in silence.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

When such a king, in such a strife, By his own people lost his life, Full many a gallant man must feel The death-wound from the people's steel.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Seeing Alyosha, Katerina Ivanovna said quickly and joyfully to Ivan, who had already got up to go, “A minute!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Scarcely any kampong is so small as not to have a mosque.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Do you feel that you can be trusted with a secret, and keep it so well and so closely that even your mother herself shall not know that you have a secret to keep?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The clincher was the problem of how Katha had reached Terra City ahead of Garrity, to begin with, and whether there was still a Katha in Serco.
— from Garrity's Annuities by David Mason

Nothing is your own, if you haven't made it so, and kept it so."
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The men at the table smiled, a kindly, indulgent smile.
— from Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis

For brute nature under all its forms—beasts and birds, reptiles and fishes—can be subjected and kept in subjection by human nature.
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, James by Richard Francis Weymouth

"No," admitted Gideon, "not to us; but a treasure is a treasure, and just for the sake of swizzling a kid it seems a pity to spoil a valuable tiger-skin worth three or four pounds at least, and perhaps more."
— from The Human Boy Again by Eden Phillpotts

While on shore at Kohimarama I saw but comparatively little of him, except at meals; but during the voyage I saw of course a great deal of him, and learned much from him—learned to admire his unselfishness and simplicity of mode of life, and to respect his earnestness and abilities.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge