As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

I will explain as briefly as possible: Some here think that, in view of the scarcity of labor in the South, and the probability that a part, at least, of the able-bodied slaves will be called into the military service of the rebels, it is of the greatest importance to open outlets by which these slaves can escape into our lines, and they say that the route you have passed over should be made the route of escape, and Savannah the great place of refuge.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But as they could feel this only instinctively, not by a systematic view of all the forces in play, they would attach their voluminous sense of fatality to some chance external indication or to some ephemeral impulse within themselves; so that what was essentially a profound but inarticulate science might express itself in the guise of a superstition.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

We certainly may dismiss the consideration of those men who admit that which is the most difficult point in the whole question, namely, that a soul can exist independently of the body, and yet refuse to grant that which is not only very easy to believe, but which is even the natural consequence of the concession which they have made—that if they can exist for a length of time; they most likely do so forever.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Einzelfall individual case Einzelfertigung jobbing production Einzelfertigung jobbing work Einzelfirma sole proprietorship Einzelhandel retail Einzelhandel retail trade Einzelhandelsabgabepreis retail selling price Einzelhandelsgeschäft retail outlet Einzelhandelsgeschäft retail shop Einzelhandelsgeschäft (US) retail store Einzelhandelskette retail store chain Einzelhandelskostenindex index of retail prices Einzelhandelskunde retail customer Einzelhandelspreisindex retail price index Einzelhandelsrabatt retail discount Einzelhandelsspanne retail margin Einzelhandelsumsatz retail sales Einzelhandelsumsatz retail turnover Einzelhandelsunternehmen retail business Einzelhandelsunternehmen retail establishment Einzelhändler retail dealer Einzelhändler retailer Einzelheit detail Einzelheiten particulars Einzelkaufmann sole prprietor Einzelkosten individual costs Einzellohnverhandlung individual bargaining einzeln individual einzeln single einzeln aufführen specify einzeln oder insgesamt any or all of which einzelner Verbraucher individual consumer Einzelposten single item Einzelspalte single column Einzelstück; Einzelposten individual item Einzelstückfertigung; Einzelfertigung piece production Einzelteil component Einzelverträge individual contracts Einzelzeit subtracted time Einzelzeitmessung flyback timing Einzelzeitverfahren flyback timing method Einzelzeitverfahren snap-back timing method Einziehung von Außenständen collection of outstanding debts Einziehung von Forderungen collection of debts Einziehung von Schulden collection of debts einzige Beschwerde sole complaint einziger Absatzweg exclusive outlet Einzug eines Schecks collection of a cheque Einzug von Außenständen collection of outstanding amounts Einzugskosten encashment charges einzuschiebendes Arbeitselement intermittent element Eisenbahn railway Eisenbahnbehörde railway authority Eisenbahnfahrkarte railway ticket Eisenbahngesellschaft railroad company Eisenbahnknotenpunkt railway junction Eisenbahnnetz network of railroads Eisenbahnnetz railroad network Eisenbahnnetz railway network Eisenbahntransport rail transport Eisenbahnunglück railway disaster
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The counterpropaganda to the British Broadcasting Corporation is slight; chief emphasis is on entertainment value of the German radio programs.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

When the procession had arrived in front of Cortes' quarters, they assisted the prince out of the sedan, and swept clean every inch of ground before him, and then introduced him into the presence of our commander.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

There were in the Philippines no large states, nor even great rajas and sultans such as were found in the Malay Archipelago, but instead on every island were a multitude of small communities, each independent of the other and frequently waging war.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

However improbable these stories may appear, they point to the notion that spirits can exist independently of the body.
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen

“On the contrary,” replied Cole: “I have walked with you the more gladly from my desire of telling them to you; for we all love to seem consistent, even in our chimeras.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He needed no persuasion, and thereafter he seemed more than ever lapsed in the serenities of the storm centre, ensconced in one of the great square upper bedrooms, with the spare furnishing of heavy mahogany that gave an idea of so much space, the order of the day when the plethora of decoration, the "cosy corner," the wall pocket, the "art drapery," the crowded knickknackery, did not obtain.
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

The main results of this criticism may be briefly summarized as follows: First, in industry, the persistence, and, in some cases, even increase, of petty industries; second, in agriculture, the failure of large-scale farming, and the decrease of the average farm acreage; third, in retail trade, the persistence of the small stores, despite the growth in size and number of the great department stores; fourth, the fact that concentration of industry does not imply a like concentration of wealth, the number of shareholders in a great industrial combination being frequently greater [Pg 122] than the number of owners in the units of industry prior to the combination.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

After some slight conversation, entered into on his part, I am certain, with an intention of discovering on what terms of confidence I stood with my uncle, he paused, and said gravely— “I am sent here with a message to you, sir, from a woman to whom you have shown kindness, and who is one of my penitents, in Antwerp—one Bridget Fitzgerald.”
— from Round the Sofa; vol. 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell