I have called it a hall, for so it had certainly been in old times, and the squire had evidently endeavored to restore it to something of its primitive state.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

“Thy wife,” saith he, “even Ethne the Longsided, daughter of Dunlang king of Leinster.”
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Eppie had a larger garden than she had ever expected there now; and in other ways there had been alterations at the expense of Mr. Cass, the landlord, to suit Silas's larger family.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

me lo permitiese, le recomendaría hiciera matricular a su hijo en el Tribunal de Comercio.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"I can't say what I should do in such a case; but it always seemed to me that a man should have energy enough to save himself, and not expect the 'weaker vessel,' as he calls her, to do it for him," answered Christie, with a conscious look, for Mr. Fletcher's face made her feel as if something was going to happen.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

So it was that he entered abruptly upon a lean period, wherein he continued selling his earlier efforts to publications that would not pay and submitting his later work to magazines that would not buy.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Entwicklung im der Kommunikation the communcations revolution die richtige Anschrift feststellen to ascertain the proper address die Richtigkeit überprüfen verify die Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit ablehnen to decline arbitration die Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit fördern to encourage arbitration die Schlichtung fördern to encourage conciliation die schlimmsten Reibungsursachen the worst causes of friction die sich befassen mit which are concerned with die sich hieraus ergebende Entwicklung the resultant development die Sicherheit vorziehen prefer the certainty of die sofort überwiesen werden kann which can immediately be remitted die Spur verfolgen; einer Spur nachgehen keep track die ständige Fortentwicklung the continuing revolution in die streitenden Parteien the parties to the dispute die streitenden Parteien anhören to hear the parties of the dispute die strittige Frage the question in dispute die tatsächlichen Gegebenheiten the realities die Übergabe der
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

This greater stability has even enabled the archaic system of phratries to maintain itself in America with a clearness and a relief no longer to be found in Australia.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Still she had energy enough to bring about the union of Denise Tascheron and Gregoire Gerard, gave her son into their keeping, left important bequests destined to keep alive her memory, and died during the summer of 1844 after confessing in public in the presence of Bianchon, Dutheil, Granville, Mme.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The voice was so sweet, the music was so plaintive, that, without knowing it, and though she sang in a low and subdued tone, the singer had every ear turned to listen.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

For months long, his most faithful and affectionate allies, such men as the Elector of Hesse and the Duke of Wirtemberg, as well as the less trustworthy Augustus of Saxony, had earnestly expressed their opinion that, under the circumstances, his best course was to sit still and watch the course of events.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) by John Lothrop Motley

[Pg 229] XXX A MARKED MAN The unexpected energy displayed by her charming guest in bustling all over the country had surprised and a little perplexed Miss Peterkin, but she now decided that it was only a passing phase, for on the day following his visits to Keldale and Stanesland he exhibited exactly the same leisurely calm she had admired at first.
— from Simon by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

"Yes—everything's settled—" his embrace expressed the satisfaction of the man returning from an accomplished task to the joys of his fireside.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

The spider heard everything, even the agreement that the Englishmen should take the injunction to go off to their island literally, and seclude themselves in the English island of his Lordship, until such time as Flamin and her Ladyship were ready to embark with them all for their greater island,–the workshop of freedom, the classic soil of erect men.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

Thereat she gathered up her gown into her girdle ready for the way, and smiled as she saw his eyes embrace the loveliness of her feet; and she spake as she moved them daintily on the flowery grass: "Sooth to say, Knight, I am no weakling dame, who cannot move her limbs save in the dance, or to back the white palfrey and ride the meadows, goshawk on wrist; I am both well-knit and light-foot as the Wood-wife and Goddess of yore agone.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

We have pleasant little glimpses in her Majesty's journal, and Prince Albert's letters, of what was necessarily of the utmost moment to all concerned; nay, as the contracting parties were of such high estate, excited the lively sympathies of two great nations.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

Labouring to say "two days" in accents suitable to a monarch's ear, she had evolved: Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torches his diurnal ring, Ere twice in murk and accidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quenched his sleepy lamp; Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass, What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley