But it 'ud look more like what used to be, to stay at the mill than to go anywhere else; and if you'll only think–if you was to bid for the mill and buy it, my husband might be struck worse than he was before, and niver get better again as he's getting now."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Mitteilungen über elektronische Systeme communication by electronic systems Mittel funds Mittel means Mittel median Mittel aufbringen raise of funds Mittel und Wege ways and means Mittel; Geldmittel means Mittel; Staatspapiere funds mittelbar indirect mittelbare Kosten indirect costs Mittelbeschaffung finding of means mittelfristig middle-term mittellos indigent mittellos out of funds mittellos; ohne Geld; ohne einen Pfennig flat broke Mittellosigkeit indigence Mittellosigkeit lack of means mittels by means of mittels Auktion verkaufen; versteigern to sell by public sale mittels eines besonderen Dokuments by means of a separate document Mittelsmann intermediary Mittelsmann middleman Mittelsmann; Vermittler middleman Mittelstand middle classes Mittelwert mean mittlere Abweichung mean deviation mittlere Führungsebene middle management mittlere Qualität middling quality mittlere Schublade centre drawer mittlerer Preis middle price mittlerer Preis; Durchschnittspreis middle price mittlerer Stichprobenumfang average sample size mittleres Alter middle age Mitunterzeichner joint undersigner mitwirken; zusammenarbeiten co-operate Mitwirkung; Zusammenarbeit co-operation Möbelwagen removal van mobile Gerätschaften mobile equipment Mobilität; Beweglichkeit mobility möblierte Unterkunft lodgings möbliertes Zimmer furnished apartment möchten alle Handelsbarrieren abschaffen we want all trade barriers abolished Mode fashion Mode vogue Modeartikel fancy article Modeartikel fancy goods Modeartikel fashion articles Modeartikel fashion goods Modeartikel; Luxusartikel; Galanteriewaren fancies Modeberater fashion adviser Modefotograf fashion photographer
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

If I am very much in earnest and quite determined to be unselfish, let me take care of him .'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

O universal lights Most glorious!
— from The Georgics by Virgil

ATHENIAN: Then the unjust life must not only be more base and depraved, but also more unpleasant than the just and holy life? CLEINIAS: That seems to be implied in the present argument. ATHENIAN: And even supposing this were otherwise, and not as the argument has proven, still the lawgiver, who is worth anything, if he ever ventures to tell a lie to the young for their good, could not invent a more useful lie than this, or one which will have a better effect in making them do what is right, not on compulsion but voluntarily.
— from Laws by Plato

Li occhi ha vermigli, la barba unta e atra, e 'l ventre largo, e unghiate le mani; graffia li spirti, ed iscoia ed isquatra.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Here is our deepest organ of communication with the nature of things; and compared with these concrete movements of our soul all abstract statements and scientific arguments—the veto, for example, which the strict positivist pronounces upon our faith—sound to us like mere chatterings of the teeth.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

‘They may be wrong of course,’ returned the mother, ‘I can’t tell about that, though I don’t think it’s at all unlikely that they’re in the right, for the talk is that the old gentleman had put by a little money that nobody knew of, not even that ugly little man you talk to me about—what’s his name—Quilp; and that he and Miss Nell have gone to live abroad where it can’t be taken from them, and they will never be disturbed.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

One day within that holy wood By saint Sutíkshṇa Ráma stood, And thus the prince with reverence meek To that high sage began to speak: “In the wide woodlands that extend Around us, lord most reverend, As frequent voice of rumour tells, Agastya, saintliest hermit, dwells.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

They perished and sank away and immense forests sprang up like magic.
— from Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Mary E. Bradley Lane

For many a month and year the refrain, a play upon the Bride's name, kept singing itself through my memory:— "Long may the Whitecross banner wave, By the battle blasts unriven; Long may our Brother and Sister brave Rejoice in the light of Heaven."
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton

“I dreamed I saw him abusing a harmless, overworked and underfed little monkey on the streets of New York.”
— from Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon

Indeed in such cases, after the apparatus is full, it becomes almost essential to move the trays lower, because if fresh green herbs, particularly those which are somewhat wet, be placed at the bottom of the series, the air will become so charged with moisture from them that the upper layers may for a time actually absorb this moisture and thus take longer to dry.
— from Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

His unkempt elf-locks were more wild, his uncleanly linen more disordered, his eye more bright and restless, than of yore.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 2 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

With these helps a country day, what with going to bed early and getting up late, may be frittered away as aimlessly as a day in town.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton