It is now thoroughly known and admitted that if some such presumptions exist, no such presumption is infallible.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

[255] Tunc subito, nulla præcedente significatione, prorsus exui nudarique se omni gaudio sentiret.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

[178] "Hérédité de la Couleur des Yeux dans l'espèce humaine," Archives des Sciences physiques et naturelles , sér.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

[80] Laws of William the Conqueror, De Suppliciorum modo: “Interdicimus eciam ne quis occidatur vel suspendatur pro aliqua culpa, sed enerventur” (other texts have “eruantur”) “oculi, et abscindantur pedes, vel testiculi, vel manus, ita quod truncus remaneat vivus, in signum prodicionis et nequicie sue: secundum enim quantitatem delicti debet pena maleficis infligi.
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks

Kassageschäfte spot transaction Lokogeschäft, Kassageschäft squeeze Klemme staff Belegschaft staff pension fund Pensionskasse stale cheque abgelaufener Scheck stamp Briefmarke, Stempel, Steuermarke stamp duty Stempelsteuer standard price Einheitspreis, Normalpreis standardization Standardisierung standardize standardisieren stand-by credit Stand-by Letter of Credit standing Ansehen standing credit laufender Kredit standing customer Dauerkunde standing order
— from Mr. Honey's Small Banking Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

The constitutions and affairs of Italy, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, England, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Turkey, Greece, United States, Mexico, the South American Republics, and even of the African and Asiatic races, are discussed with moderation and an effort for impartiality, which is laudable, if not always successful.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

The streets were deserted, the great city was sleeping, the thoroughfares he had seen crowded with brilliant equipages and hurrying masses of foot passengers, were still and vacant; and as Mark turned from side to side to gaze on the stately public edifices now sleeping in their own shadows, he thought of the dreadful conflict which, perchance, it might be his own lot to lead in that same city—he thought of the wild shout of the insurgent masses, as with long-pent-up, but now loosened fury they poured into the devoted streets—he fancied the swelling clangour which denoted the approach of troops, ringing through the various approaches, and the clattering sounds of distant musketry as post after post in different parts of the town was assailed.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

Sedentary persons especially need systematic exercise.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg