Only think—ill as she was, Aunt Rina embroidered these for me.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

jem. anstellen engage sich verrechnen miscalculate sich verschlechternde Zahlungsbilanz deteriorating balance of payments sich versichern lassen have one's life assured sich vorbehalten reserved to himself sich widersprechend; conflicting sich wiederholendes Arbeitselement repetitive element sich zurückhalten abstain from sich zurückziehen retire sich zurückziehen von back out of sich zusammentun to joint together sicher safe sicher angelegt safely invested sicher aufbewahren keep in safe custody sicher und einfach (adv.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

There are so many such habitual actions that it is difficult to say where actual reflexes end and habits begin.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

To and fro, amid those lamp-galaxies of the Elysian Fields, the Royal Carriage slowly wends and rolls; every where with vivats, from a multitude striving to be glad.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Whether this opinion is correct or not, it is superfluous here to discuss; since whatever aid religion, either natural or revealed, can afford to ethical investigation, is as open to the utilitarian moralist as to any other.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

When silence was again restored, Earl Sigurd said, "It is King Hakon's will to give way to you, the bondes, and never to separate himself from your friendship.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Starting with a relative equality of the social elements, certain elements gain greater significance; within the circle of influence thus constituted certain especially powerful individuals differentiate themselves until this development accommodates itself to one or to a few heads.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This name, so Vollmer claims, has been added to the book by medieval scholars without any reason except conjecture for such action.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Take of red Roses, Liquorice of each two drams and five grains, Gum Arabic and Tragacanth, of each two drams and two scruples, Sanders white and red, each four scruples, juice of Liquorice, white Starch, the seeds of white Poppies, Purslain, Lettuce, and Endive, of each three drams, the four greater cold seeds husked, of Quinces, [325] Mallows, Cotton, Violets, Pine-nuts, fistic Nuts, sweet Almonds, pulp of Sebestens, of each two drams, Cloves, Spodium, Cinnamon, of each one dram, Saffron five grains, Penids half an ounce, being beaten, make them all into a soft electuary with three times their weight in Syrup of Violets.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

For instance, a pair of twin souls, dwelling in perfect unity, would like to see again for a thousand years the delightful hours passed together on the Earth; they would rush into space with a rapidity equal to that of light, [124] in order to have always before their eyes the same hours of joy.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion

“The profits of my expected posts will be,” he was saying, with a reckoning eye cast upward into his cranium for accuracy, when Laura returned, and Vittoria ran out to the duchess.
— from Vittoria — Complete by George Meredith

Our choice will be left perfectly free; but if we choose to reject His paternal guidance, we shall find that all we have secured for ourselves is merely the contemptible honour of figuring in our small way as reprobates (Exod.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

It was during this siege that the light was first distinguished, which, broadening more and more, and blazing brighter and brighter, was at length to fill with its lustre the whole hemisphere of Europe, and was then to set with a rapidity equal to that with which it had arisen.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

Perhaps you now grasp my duty of concentrating all my time and energy on this single work and ruthlessly eliminating whatever interferes with it."
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

They started with a Royal escort, but at the top of the park Fife sent it back, and they made their entry into Sheen in his carriage only.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

{311} She would not accept the small alleviation, having, with her eyes open and with a full sense of what she was about, resigned everything else.
— from Neighbours on the Green by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It was Lowell the writer whom Gay wished most to attach to the paper for the added weight and influence he would bring, and Lowell in making and holding to his agreement was not indifferent to the gentle stimulus which a regular engagement afforded.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

[230] John Stewart, with a rough exterior, had a sensitive heart.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 by Various