Care was taken to instruct him in all the branches of useful knowledge cultivated at that period, and to give him those mental and personal accomplishments deemed proper for a prince.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

They had quickly run back, and met, and embracing most unpremeditatedly, kissed close and long.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht reich —Great industry and little conscience make one rich.
— 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.

Church and Nares take uneath to mean "beneath" or "underneath"; Kitchin conjectures "almost."
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

‘It’s no use knocking, coachman.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The unexpected Karamazov case agitated him profoundly: “It was a case that might well be talked about all over Russia.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The power of the Ionians was advancing with rapid strides, when it came into collision with Persia, under King Cyrus, who, after having dethroned Croesus and overrun everything between the Halys and the sea, stopped not till he had reduced the cities of the coast; the islands being only left to be subdued by Darius and the Phoenician navy.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Kofferschreibmaschine portable typewriter Kohlenabbaugebiet coal district Kohlepapier carbon paper Kohlevorkommen coal deposirs Kollektion range of articles Kollektion von Ausfallmustern collection of patterns kollektiv collective Kollektivbesitz collective ownership Kollektivprämie colective bonus Kolonnenführer gang leader Kombination combination Kombination; Verbindung combination kombinierte Transportdokumente combined transportdocuments kombinierter Tarif combined rate kombinierter Transport combined transport Kommanditgesellschaft limited partnership Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien association limited by shares Kommanditist partner liable to a fixed amount kommen zusammen; treffen sich are brought into contact kommerziell commercial Kommission commission Kommission committee Kommission für internationales Handelsrecht der Vereinten UNCITRAL Kommissionär commission agent Kommissionär factor Kommissionsgeschäft commission business Kommissionsnummer commission number Kommissionsware goods on consignment Kommissionsware goods on sale or return Kommunalabgaben local rates Kommunalanleihe municipal loan Kommunalobligation municipal bond Kommunalobligationen municipal debentures Kommunalobligationen municipals
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Weisungen unclear instructions Unkosten business expentiture Unkostenaufstellung cost account unkündbar non-redeemable unkündbar not subject to call unkündbares Darlehen uncallable loan unkündbares Kapital capital not to be withdrawn unlauter unfair unlautere Handlungen unfair practices unlauterer Wettbewerb unfair competition unlauteres Unternehmen racket unleserlich illegible unmittel bevorstehend; drohend imminent unmittelbare Gefahr imminent danger unmittelbares Ziel immediate object unmöbliertes Zimmer unfurnished room unmodern out of fashion Unmöglichkeit der Erfüllung impossibility of performance unpassend unsuitable unpolitisch non-political unprivilegierte Bevölkerung unprivileged population unproduktive Zeit nonproductive time unproportional unproportional unpünktlich unpunctual unrechtmäßig wrongful unredlich dishonourable unredliche Vereinbarung einer Scheinauktion knock-out agreement unregelmäßig irregular unregelmäßige Beschäftigung irregular employment unregelmäßige Schwankungen erratic fluctuations Unregelmäßigkeit irregularity unrentabel gainless unrentabel unprofitable unrentabel unremunerative unrentable Preise unprofitable prices unrichtig incorrect Unrichtigkeit incorrectness Unruhe riot unsachgemäße Verpackung improper packing unscharfer Druck unsharp impression unscharfer Druck unsharp print unser ganzes Geld liegt auf dieser Bank all our money is in this bank unser Sortiment our range of products unsere Aktien sind im
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Thankful begged her to stay until Kenelm came, when he might harness the horse and drive her to her destination, but she would not wait.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

At an Inn at Collins’ End, where the unfortunate King Charles, while a prisoner at Caversham, is said to have played at bowls, are these lines:― Stop, traveller, stop; in yonder peaceful glade, His favourite game the royal martyr played; Here stripped of honours, children, freedom, rank, Drank from the bowl and bowled for what he drank; Sought in a cheerful glass his cares to drown, And changed his guinea ere he lost his crown.
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke

According to them it was the Saracens, side by side with the knights of Leon, who wrought this havoc upon King Charles.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

On careful examination, it is found that the materials of which each of these layers of more or less hard rock are composed are, for the most [Page: 021] part, of the same nature as those which are at present being formed under known conditions on the [Page: 022] surface of the earth.
— from American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley

However, upon King Charles's claim the States disowned the title, but resumed it during our confusions.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 30: August/September 1664 by Samuel Pepys

Lináwa ang ímung kaugalíngun, ayaw ug katarantar, Compose yourself.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[118] is entirely similar to two metals forming a homogeneous alloy, [21] and under known circumstances (for instance, on cooling the alloy, or in the case of aqueous solution when the two metals are simultaneously liberated from the solution), definite crystalline compounds are separated.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Utanata kai , Ceram kai , wood.
— from Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

The bodies united by means of the compromise do not, like the United Kingdom, constitute the centre of a world-wide Empire.
— from England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey