Mary took the picture back to the house when she went to her supper and she showed it to Martha.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

At all events,’ walking me briskly on, ‘I have bought a boat that was for sale—a clipper, Mr. Peggotty says; and so she is—and Mr. Peggotty will be master of her in my absence.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Her fur coat is in such a state she is ashamed to show herself in the street.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Was the soul a shadow seated in the house of sin?
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The young sparks, it is true, were as full of extravagancies as overgrown children: the words of their tumultuary discussions were difficultly understood and not often nice: their testiness and outrageous mots were such that his intellects resiled from: nor were they scrupulously sensible of the proprieties though their fund of strong animal spirits spoke in their behalf.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Steuerjahr tax year Steuerkasse tax collector's office Steuerklasse tax bracket Steuerklasse tax class Steuerlast tax burden Steuern erlassen; mindern to abate taxes Steuerparadies tax haven steuerpflichtig taxable Steuerpolitik fiscal policy Steuerprivileg tax privilege Steuerrückerstattung tax refund Steuersatz rate of taxes Steuersenkung tax cutting Steuertabelle tax table Steuerumgehung evasion of taxes Steuerveranlagung tax assessment Steuervorschriften tax regulations Steuerwohnsitz fiscal domicile Steuerzahler tax-payer Steuerzahler taxpayer Steuerzuschlag surtax Stewardess air hostess Stichprobe random sampling Stichprobe; Muster sample Stichprobenanteil sampling rate Stichprobenentnahme sampling Stichprobenerhebung sampling survey Stichprobenprüfer sampler Stichprobentheorie theory of sampling Stichprobenumfang sample size Stichprobenverfahren sampling Stichprobenverfahren durch Tätigkeitsauswahl work sampling Stichprobenverfahren für Tätigkeiten activity sampling Stichtag key date Stichtag; Gebührenverzeichnis test day stiften endow Stiftung endowment Stiftung; Grundlage foundation Stiftungsurkunde deed of foundation still silent stille Reserve inner reserve stille Reserven hidden assets stille Reserven hidden reserves stille Reserven secret reserves Stillegung closedown Stillegung eines Betriebs closing down of a factory stiller Teilhaber dormant partner stiller Teilhaber silent partner stiller Teilhaber sleeping partner stillschweigend tacit stillschweigend genehmigen to approve tacitly stillschweigend übereinstimmen agree tacitly stillschweigend übereinstimmen to agree tacitly stillschweigend unterstellt implicit stillschweigend zustimmen to consent tacitly stillschweigende Übereinkunft tacit consent stillschweigende Übereinstimmung tacit agreement stillschweigende Vereinbarung tacit agreement stillschweigende Vollmacht; implizierte implied authority stillschweigende Zusage implied engagement stillschweigende Zustimmung implicit consent stillschweigende Zustimmung silent consent stillschweigende Zustimmung tacit approval stillschweigende Zustimmung tacit consent Stillstand deadlock Stillstand standstill Stillstandskosten cost of idleness Stillstandszeit dead time Stillstandzeit time of nonuse Stimme voice stimmen; Stimme vote Stimmenabgabe casting of votes Stimmenwerbung; Kundenwerbung canvassing Stipendium grant Stohmann man of straw Stoppuhr stopwatch Stoppunkt; bedingter Stop breakpoint störanfällig accident sensitive stören interfere stornieren cancel Stornierung einer Buchung cancellation of an entry Stornierung; Annullierung cancellation Stornierungsgebühr cancellation fee Störung interference störungsfreier Betriebsablauf failure-free operation Störungssuche trouble shooting Störungssucher trouble shooter strafbare Handlung criminal offence strafbare Handlung penal offense Strafe penalty Strafgesetzbuch penal code Strandgut flotsam and jetsam
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Public Sale Of The Empire To Didius Julianus By The Prætorian Guards—Clodius Albinus In Britain, Pescennius Niger In Syria, And Septimius Severus In Pannonia, Declare Against The Murderers Of Pertinax—Civil Wars And Victory Of Severus Over His Three Rivals—Relaxation Of Discipline—New Maxims Of Government.
— 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

We will enter very softly and stand still in the open doorway, without awaking the glossy-brown setter who is stretched across the hearth, with her two puppies beside her; or the pug, who is dozing, with his black muzzle aloft, like a sleepy president.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

As she glanced from the table to the fireplace, where the smallest of all possible kettles was singing a small song in a small voice, her inward satisfaction evidently increased,—so much so, indeed, that Mrs. Corney smiled.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

he sat; and she said it when, the wine having made all his companions drunk, he found no alteration in himself at all; it may have been said of me from my infancy, that I had either folly or quicksilver in my feet, so much stirring and unsettledness there is in them, wherever they are placed.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When a few years ago Admiral Cervera was ordered to fight the United States with ships armed with obsolete guns and shells that did not fit them, every one said, and still says, if the subject is spoken of, that officials in the Government stole [298] the money that ought to have been spent on the Navy.
— from Spain from Within by Rafael Shaw

Have you anything to suggest?" "Ah," she sighed, "it goes hard with me to have her disciplined at all; why will she not be good without it, poor, dear child!"
— from The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley

He is much thought of by the old women, who consider him as a kind of conjurer because he has two or three stuffed alligators hanging up in his shop and several snakes in bottles.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

To be suddenly and swiftly swept into the maelstrom of a mighty love, and then to be confronted by the possible loss of the girl who aroused this feeling.
— from A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

It was thus that a dignity was imparted to natural ties which surpassed among the Israelites the same sentiment among the Gentiles, but which was but a foreshadowing of their sacred and sacramental state in the church of God.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

It is easy to perceive in this incident, where a disposition to exaggerate looking through the lens of fear, magnified a group of slight and slender savages into terrific giants, how many a legend has come to birth.
— from Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest, Sir

"Well, rats swarm aboard such ships if they are not kept down, and I suppose that when this craft drifted in here to the Sargasso, and her crew deserted her, that the rats just naturally multiplied till they ate the holds clean of sugar and gnawed into the water tanks.
— from The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon by John Henry Goldfrap

Cecily was uncertain how far her sister-in-law had progressed from the old standpoint, and she saw in her even an increase of the wonted reticence.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing