When they entered, she turned and shut the door and locked it.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Remove the element so thoroughly and solely complained of—liquor—and there would not be one to gainsay the qualities of beauty and enthusiasm which would remain.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The expression struck the author so forcibly that the words were recorded as spoken.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“I knew him to the very depths of his childlike heart, which was only too easily seen through and sounded, and I loved him as some old bachelor uncle loves a nephew who plays him tricks, but who knows how to coax him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

For ten minutes I experienced such horrible fright that ever since then a sort of constant terror has remained with me.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It is only in the earlier stages that any stand can be successfully made against the encroachment.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Sterling Gebiet sterling area Sterling Silber sterling Sterlingblock sterling block stetige Inflation steady inflation Stetigkeit consistency Stetigkeit steadiness Stetigkeit; Folgerichtigkeit; Gleichheit consistency Stetigkeit; Stabilität steadiness Steuer tax Steuer erheben raise a tax Steuer; Abgabe levy Steuerabzug tax deduction Steueraufkommen national revenue Steuerbefreiung tax exemption Steuerbehörden tax authorities Steuerberater tax advisor Steuerbestimmungen tax regulations Steuereinkommen; Einkünfte des Staates revenue Steuereinnahmen inland revenue Steuereinnehmer tax collector Steuereintreiber; Steuereinnehmer tax collector Steuererklärung tax return Steuererlass; erlassene Steuer tax abatement Steuererleichterung tax relief Steuererleichterung für Exportschäfte export tax relief Steuerermäßigung relief Steuerflucht tax evasion steuerfrei free of tax steuerfrei non assessable steuerfrei tax-free Steuerfreibetrag tax allowance Steuerhinterzieher tax dodger Steuerhinterzieher tax evader Steuerhinterziehung tax avoidance Steuerhinterziehung tax evasion
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The great solidity and compactness of the valanca, the vast extent of it in length, breadth and heighth, together with the snow, that still continued to fall in great quantities, eluded all their efforts; so that after some days’ labour, they thought proper to desist from their trials, finding that it was throwing away their time and trouble to no purpose.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

By the side of the Egyptians stood the Alexandrians, somewhat as the English in India stand alongside of the natives of the country.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

Going from doubt to doubt, David began to see his real position more clearly; and to himself he said, as the Cointets had said to old Sechard, as Petit-Claud had just said to Eve, "Suppose that all should go well, what does it amount to in practice?
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

It was a dog, of what species I cannot tell, never having seen the like before or since; the head was large and round; the ears so tiny as scarcely to be discernible; the eyes of a fiery red: in size it was rather small than large; and the coat, which was remarkably smooth, as white as the falling flakes.
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

He wrote, through Stephen Jannan, to Essie Scofield that afternoon, stating the generous terms of his final arrangement with her, making it plain that all personal contact between them had reached an end.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

“That’s what I’ve heard the Britishers looking forward to ever since the armistice,” said Bob.
— from Captain Lucy in the Home Sector by Aline Havard