at Rome you spent fifty thousand piastres in furnishing your apartments, but I presume that you are not disposed to spend a similar sum every day.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Sonderausbildung specific training Sonderausgabe special edition Sonderausschuss special committee Sonderausstattung optional equipment Sonderbestimmungen exceptional provisions Sonderbestimmungen special provisions Sondereinsatzgruppe flying squad sondern eher but rather Sonderplatzierung preferred position Sonderprämie special bonus Sonderpreis exceptional price Sonderrabatt additional discount Sonderrabatt extra discount Sonderrevisor special auditor Sonderurlaub special leave Sondervergütung bonus Sondervergütung special allowance Sonderzoll; Sonderabgabe extra duty Sonderzulage special bonus Sonderzulage; Sondervergütung extra allowance Sonntagslohn sunday pay sonst in gutem Zustand otherwise in good condition
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Now let’s go on a further step to the fact that the words men speak are simply sounds, each different sound being a symbol for a different meaning.
— from Prehistoric Men by Robert J. (Robert John) Braidwood

There is not so much one science as several sciences, each distinguished by an autonomous method, and divided into two great kingdoms.
— from A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Edouard Le Roy

Steam and smoke slowly escape during the first hours, but later the entire heap, including the outer covering of earth, [Pg 52] is heated to a dull red glow.
— from Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Alva Agee

In spite of her sorrow and anguish, her beauty blossomed in the shade, and she seemed each day to grow more lovely, while her heart became more sad, and her despair more poignant.
— from Prince Zilah — Complete by Jules Claretie

Nationality: noun: Sahrawi(s), Sahraoui(s) adjective: Sahrawian, Sahraouian Ethnic divisions: Arab, Berber Religions: Muslim Languages: Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic Literacy: total population: NA% male: NA% female: NA% Labor force: 12,000 by occupation: animal husbandry and subsistence farming 50% *Western Sahara, Government Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Western Sahara Digraph: WI Type: legal status of territory and question of sovereignty unresolved; territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed a government in exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976, with Morocco acquiring northern two-thirds; Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control; the Polisario's government in exile was seated as an OAU member in 1984; guerrilla activities continued sporadically, until a UN-monitored cease-fire was implemented 6 September 1991 Capital: none Administrative divisions: none (under de facto control of Morocco)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The water of crystallisation is held by the salt with more or less stability, and some salts even do not retain it at all; some part with water easily when exposed to the air, others when heated, and then with difficulty.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Nationality: noun: Sahrawi(s), Sahraoui(s) adjective: Sahrawian, Sahraouian Ethnic divisions: Arab, Berber Religions: Muslim Languages: Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic Literacy: total population: NA% male: NA% female: NA% Labor force: 12,000 by occupation: animal husbandry and subsistence farming 50% @Western Sahara, Government Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Western Sahara Digraph: WI Type: legal status of territory and question of sovereignty unresolved; territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed a government in exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR); territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976, with Morocco acquiring northern two-thirds; Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control; the Polisario's government in exile was seated as an OAU member in 1984; guerrilla activities continued sporadically, until a UN-monitored cease-fire was implemented 6 September 1991 Capital: none Administrative divisions: none (under de facto control of Morocco) Executive branch: none Member of: none Diplomatic representation in US: none US diplomatic representation: none @Western Sahara, Economy Overview: Western Sahara, a territory poor in natural resources and having little rainfall, has a per capita GDP of roughly $300.
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Ne quis igitur solem adoret, sed solis effectorem desideret.”—Clemens
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach