The following is a classification of the characteristics of the person which affect his social status and efficiency: ( a ) physical traits, as physique, physiognomy, etc.; ( b ) temperament; ( c ) character; ( d ) social expression, as by facial expression, gesture, manner, speech, writing, etc.; ( e ) prestige, as by birth, past success, status, etc.; ( f ) the individual's conception of his rôle.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Wahrscheinlichkeit des Erfolgs probability of success Wahrscheinlichkeit des totalen Verlusts probability of total failure Wahrscheinlichkeit des Überlebens probability of survival Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Ereignisses probability of an event Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Schadensfalles probability of a loss Wahrscheinlichkeitsberechnung calculation of probabilities Wahrscheinlichkeitsberechnung maximum likelihood estimate Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichte probability density Wahrscheinlichkeitskontrolle probability control Wahrscheinlichkeitskurve probability curve Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung probability calculation Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung probability calculus Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung theory of probability
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

It being late in the season, we encountered every possible difficulty on our way: the small streams overflowed, and the ice was so bad on the rivers as to preclude travelling on them.
— from Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. by John McLean

SPAHR, WALTER E. Economic principles and problems.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

To do so would entail explanations, possibly arguments on the subject of his filial duties.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

Boringdon had taken Barbara to the further side of the great stone gateway, and she was enjoying every [pg 159] moment of the time which seemed to many of those about her so tedious.
— from Barbara Rebell by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Every road was then strewed with emeralds, every path covered with rubies.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various

But these payments for such wicked ends, either particularly specified and expressed in the very act appointing them, or openly avouched by the exactors, are of another nature than impositions fundamentally appointed for the public good; and the after misapplication thereof, made by such as are entrusted therewith, is no more imputable unto the land or payers, than is the theft of a collector stealing or running away with the same, without making count or reckoning to superiors.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

In this day of easy divorces and quick remarriages is it not your duty to heed the teaching of the Christian Church, which stands as the champion of the sacrament of marriage?" Constance's mien during the delivery of this exhortation suggested that of a prisoner of war listening to sentence of death, one who yearned to live, but who was trying already to derive comfort from the consequent glory; yet a prisoner, too, who clung to life and who was not prepared to accept his doom, however splendid, without exhausting every possibility of escape.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant