The style of these buildings evinces that the architect possessed neither the art of using lime or cement of any kind, nor the skill to throw an arch, construct a roof, or erect a stair; and yet, with all this ignorance, showed great ingenuity in selecting the situation of Burghs, and regulating the access to them, as well as neatness and regularity in the erection, since the buildings themselves show a style of advance in the arts scarcely consistent with the ignorance of so many of the principal branches of architectural knowledge.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

A universal liberty of conscience took place; and in this new colony the natural rights of mankind were, for the first time, established.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Hence we see that modifications of structure, viewed by systematists as of high value, may be wholly due to unknown laws of correlated growth, and without being, as far as we can see, of the slightest service to the species.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Some of these masses displayed green veins, as if scrawled with undulating lines of copper sulfate.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

unbeschränkte Lieferung unrestricted supply unbeschränkter Kredit unlimited credit unbesetzt; leer vacant unbesetzte Zeit unoccupied time Unbesonnenheit indiscretion unbeständig unstable unbeständig unsteady Unbeständigkeit unsteadiness unbestätigt unconfirmed unbestätigtes Akkreditiv unconfirmed letter of credit unbestimmt vague unbewachter Bahnübergang unmanned crossing unbeweglich immovable unbeweglich machen; festlegen immobilize unbewegliche Güter; Immobilien immovables Unbeweglichkeit immobility Unbeweglichkeit des Industriestandorts industrial inertia unbewohntes Gebäude unoccupied building unbezahlbar priceless unbezahlbar unpayable unbezahlt unpaid unbezahlte Rechnung; Außenstände outstanding money unbezahlte Rechnungen outstanding accounts unbezahlte Werbung unpaid advertising unbezahlter Helfer unpaid helper unbezahlter
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Chapter III Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable of Surprising Us When Maggie was at home again, her mother brought her news of an unexpected line of conduct in aunt Glegg.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

My heartiest thanks are due to my good friend Mr Mu Hsüeh-hsün, a scholar of wide learning and generous disposition, for having kindly allowed me to use his very large and useful library of Chinese books.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Her eyebrows lift, her eyes shine with tears and all her face is illumined as with light, with the familiar, but long unseen, look of confidence.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

By eight o’clock next morning, the traveller is at the end of his journey, which is performed by steamboat upon Lake Ontario, calling at Port Hope and Coburg, the latter a cheerful, thriving little town.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

It seemed actually like the laughter of young things, the uncontrollable laughter of children who were trying not to be heard but who in a moment or so—as their excitement mounted—would burst [Pg 370] forth.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Valentine, who still seemed to be in an unusually lazy or careless mood, laughed easily.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

to let Great Britain know, that there is in Canada but one mind and one heart, and that all Canadians stand behind the mother country, conscious and proud that she had engaged in this war, not from any selfish motive, for any purposes of aggrandisement, but to maintain untarnished the honour of her name, to fulfill her obligations to her allies, to maintain her treaty obligations and to save civilization from the unbridled lust of conquest and power.”
— from Sir Wilfrid Laurier by Peter McArthur

Lignite brown coal Lignite is more compact than peat, and is found buried to some depth under layers of clay or sandstone.
— from Field Book of Common Rocks and Minerals For identifying the Rocks and Minerals of the United States and interpreting their Origins and Meanings by Frederic Brewster Loomis

Wherever the settler may be, he is never very far from the wires or the railway; the railway meets the ocean steamer; and we can form no conception of the utter lack of communication in the old world of our immediate forefathers.
— from Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies

In the center of some of these were found the charred remains of a stake, and about them the usual layer of coals and ashes, but, in this instance, immediately around where the stake stood were charred fragments of human bones.
— from The Problem of the Ohio Mounds by Cyrus Thomas

An almost unbroken line of Carmelite Fathers appointed by the Pope filled the Vicariate till 1875, though the Archbishop of Goa and the Bishop of Cochin now and then declined to consecrate the nominee, and thus made [ 432 ] feeble attempts on behalf of their Faithful King to recover their lost position.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

exquisite : used literally: outsearching; 'consider not too curiously.'
— from An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty. by John Milton

And it was with Leila's help that I dressed the toys and trimmed the tree and between us, late on Christmas Eve, we toted a big basket on and off the cars, up the dingy stairs where Maggie kept house for "me brudder" while their mother went out to work....
— from My Actor-Husband: A true story of American stage life by Anonymous

Flax seed ; Lini semina , L. The seed of Linum usitatissimum (Linn.), or common flax.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Among the former were those fascinating ones, usually low of ceiling and dark with coal-dust, where grimy men in leather aprons tried shoes on horses; and those horrifying places past which she always drove with closed eyes—places where, scraped white and head downward, hung little pigs, pitiful husks of what they once had been, flanked on either hand by long-necked turkeys with poor glazed eyes; and once she had seen a wonderful shop in which men were sawing out flat pieces of stone, and writing words on them with chisels.
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates