I had bought two sashes and a nice little stiletto for piercing eyelet-holes in my stays, trifles that I really did not want, so that I have less than that slow-coach Agathe, who is so economical, and hoards her money like a magpie.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I 86) looked to it to change.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

May wouldnt a thing like that simply bore you stiff to extinction actually too stupid even to take his boots off now what could you make of a man like that Id rather die 20 times over than marry another of their sex of course hed never find another woman like me to put up with him the way I do know me come sleep with me
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, / Rests never on the track till it reach / Delinquency.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

i retornoronno et ne diſſero lo tuto iL re de mazaua q̃ era
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Preis zahlen pay the price den Stand halten to maintain a position den Tatsachen entsprechend in accordance with the facts den Transport beschaffen contract for the transport den Umstand daß the fact that den Umständen entsprechend as the case may be den Verkäufer ordentlich benachrichtigen give the seller due notice den Verlust ausgleichen make up for losses den Versuch aufgeben to abandon an attempt den vorgeschlagenen Vergleich akzeptieren to accept the settlement proposed den Vorsitz führen in the chair den Vorsitz führen to act as chairman den Weg ebnen smooth the way den Weisungen entsprechen comply with the instructions den Weisungen nach according to instructions den zeitlichen Umständen the circumstances of the time den Zinssatz herabsetzen lower the interest rate dennoch eingebrachte
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

“I just remembered that I really did call you stupid, but you weren’t there then, so they must have repeated it.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Repeat Sales Besides the two immediate results desired by the skillful salesman, there is a permanent result to be worked for—an enduring consequence desired from the present gains made.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

However, I’m lucky to have breath left in my body, and when I get back my memory, I’ll prove that I really did fall through the earth, and I’ll find out where I fell in.”
— from The Man Who Fell Through the Earth by Carolyn Wells

There, in rising day, On the grass they play; Parents were afar, Strangers came not near, And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
— from Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience by William Blake

“That is right, dame.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Isn't that it?” Robert drew up with a very hard smile.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

This law, that impressions received during the immaturity of the powers become the unalterable habit of the after life, is perhaps the most momentous of all the laws in whose power we find ourselves.
— from Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey

I cannot believe that there is real danger in sleeping next to the bricked-up room, or even my selfishness would hardly have induced me to put dear Bruce in a post of peril.
— from The Haunted Room: A Tale by A. L. O. E.

I had reason to suppose they would acquaint their relatives of having been questioned in their own speech, and would greatly exaggerate my knowledge of it; for I always observed that the individuals with whom I conversed were at first impressed with a belief that I knew much more of it than I really did.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson