And] as they do not count it any shame to run away in battle, they will [sometimes pretend to] do so, and in running away they turn in the saddle and shoot hard and strong at the foe, and in this way make great havoc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I expressed surprise at seeing him and said that I had not expected him to go.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Frederic de Nucingen received him as such and served him as sponsor, when, in the summer of 1842, the death of Ferdinand d'Orleans necessitated the presence of M. de la Baudraye at Luxembourg.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Dreadful omens appear to him: perhaps he sees a stork holding a snake in his beak and hesitating to swallow it.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thence home, and there I find letters from my brother, which tell me that yesterday when he wrote my mother did rattle in the throat so as they did expect every moment her death, which though I have a good while expected did much surprise me, yet was obliged to sup at Sir W. Pen’s and my wife, and there counterfeited some little mirth, but my heart was sad, and so home after supper and to bed, and much troubled in my sleep of my being crying by my mother’s bedside, laying my head over hers and crying, she almost dead and dying, and so waked, but what is strange, methought she had hair over her face, and not the same kind of face as my mother really hath, but yet did not consider that, but did weep over her as my mother, whose soul God have mercy of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This art, "so ancient, so honourable, and so profitable," to use the words of Jean Tabourot, was long in esteem in the highest social circles, and the old men liked to display their agility, and the dames and young ladies to find a temperate exercise calculated to contribute to their health as well as to their amusement.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Against the interest of her own individual comfort, Mrs. Dashwood had determined that it would be better for Marianne to be any where, at that time, than at Barton, where every thing within her view would be bringing back the past in the strongest and most afflicting manner, by constantly placing Willoughby before her, such as she had always seen him there.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

He forgets that perhaps they represent something, and so have a spiritual dignity which things living and powerful never have unless they too become representative and express some ideal.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Arbeiter workers' representative for bonus Akkordzeit incentive time Akkordzeit; Vorgabezeit standard time Akkordzettel job sheet Akkreditiv letter of credit Akkreditivantrag application for a letter of credit Akkreditiv-Bedingunen credit terms Akkreditive sind getrennte Geschäfte credits are separate transactions akkumuliertes Kapital accumulated capital Akte; Datei file Aktenschrank filing cabinet Aktentasche briefcase Aktenzeichen reference number Aktien besitzen hold shares Aktien der Elektronikindustrie electronics shares Aktien der Gummiindustrie rubber shares Aktien der Maschinenbauindustrie engineering shares Aktien der Nahrungsmittelindustrie foods shares Aktien der Schiffsbauindustrie shipbuilding shares Aktien für die Direktoren management shares Aktien hereinnehmen to take in shares Aktien mit garantierter Dividende debenture stock Aktien zeichnen subscribe for shares Aktien zuteilen allot shares Aktienbank joint stock bank Aktienbank joint-stock bank Aktienbesitz holding of shares Aktienbesitz shareholdings Aktienbesitz stockholding Aktienemission issue of shares Aktiengesellschaft joint stock company Aktiengesellschaft joint-stock company Aktiengesellschaft public limited company Aktiengesellschaft (US) corporation Aktienindex index of stocks Aktienkapital capital stock Aktienkapital equity Aktienkapital joint-stock capital Aktienkapital share capital Aktienkurs price of shares Aktienmarkt shares market Aktienmehrheit majority of shares Aktiennotierung stock quotation Aktienpaket block of shares Aktienübertragung stock transfer Aktienübertragung ohne Namensnennung blank transfer Aktienverkauf ohne Beschränkung open market Aktienzertifikat share certificate Aktionär shareholder Aktionär stock holder Aktionär stockholder Aktionärsvereinigung association of shareholders Aktiva und Passiva assets and liabilities Aktivbilanz favourable balance aktive Handelsbilanz active trade balance aktive Handelsbilanz favourable balance of trade aktiver Teilhaber active partner aktiver Teilhaber general partner aktives Unternehmen operating company aktivieren activate aktivieren capitalize Aktivierung der Geschäfte activation of trade Aktivität; Handlung activity Aktivität; Tätigkeit; Arbeit; Handlung activity Aktivitätsdauer activity duration
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

You heard what the Court Godmother said about seeing him as soon as he returns?
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

Hence the picture which Scipio Aemilianus, sane Hellenist and stout Roman, gazed at with astonished eyes and described in the vigorous and uncompromising language suited to a former censor.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

Maggie makes sunniness and shinyness herself, and so does Bessie; and they try all they can to think people wouldn't do bad things."
— from Belle Powers' Locket by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

However, this I could bear; but the carriage, built by some man nobody ever heard of, is called to the door, the steps are so hard and stiff there is hardly any pulling them down; my mistress having thick legs and no daughters, makes things worse, and after having rammed and jammed an infernal brass fist with a stick in it, which my master considers elegant, by way of handle to his coach, till I get it fast, up I mount and away we go, and anybody may see my calves in cotton (no silk in the morning) shaking like elongated moulds of blancmange all the way we rattle along,—all the fault of the builder, no Leader, no Goddal, Baxter and Macklew, no Houlditch, but some goth in Whitechapel.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

" "Ha!" exclaimed the Major, rising hastily, "someone comes, I think!" Sure enough, in due time, a somewhat languid but herculean footman appeared, who perceiving the Major, faltered, stared, pulled himself together and, approaching at speed, bowed in swift and supple humility and spoke: "Four gentlemen to see your ladyship!" "Only four?
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

We all thought he was done for, but some of the beams had got jammed, and not five minutes after he steps out of a window all right—only a scratch or two, not worth mentioning; yet that same man fell down a flight of stairs at the same fire, with a boy on his shoulder, and sprained his ankle so bad that he’s bin laid up for three weeks; but he saved the boy.”
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

" "By and by will not do, for my money is there," returned the marquise, pointing out the coffer to the superintendent, and showing him, as she opened it, the bundles of notes and heaps of gold.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

Whether the principal figure in the group felt her dignity hurt, or her modesty offended, by such an exhibition of her charms to the rude ribaldry of a mob, or whether instigated by the rational motive of seeking ease by change of position, it may not be an easy matter to determine, but certain it is, that straining every nerve to liberate her captive limbs, she at length succeeded, bursting the cord by which she was fastened to the pillion, and tumbled in a heap to the ground, where, as if inspired by the genius of perseverance she again struggled hard and soon shook off every remnant of her hempen gyves; and in all the pride of high achievement and newly acquired freedom, ran with all her might through p. 98
— from The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti Descriptive of Life in Wales: Interspersed with Poems by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

“If I’d driven home a harpoon with such a sure hand and steady aim as his, I’d be so proud that my hat wouldn’t fit me.”
— from The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove; Or, The Missing Chest of Gold by Spencer Davenport