We said the country should be ours from the place where the water runs up no longer on this stream, to a river twenty sun's journey toward the summer.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

When a man does not fulfil his contract, he being under no legal or other impediment, the case shall be brought before the court of the tribes, if not previously settled by arbitration.
— from Laws by Plato

Let the rumour of our rage beacon forth: boldly let us grind to powder the column of the foe; nor let the battle be long and chafe us; nor let our onset be shattered in rout and be still.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

But as mere representations, they stand under no law of conjunction except that which the conjoining faculty prescribes.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The chamber was full—but there was no Protector; and there was an austere discontent manifest on the countenances of the leaders, and a whispering and busy tattle among the underlings, not less ominous.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

One thing I can say, my uncle never left off speaking.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

And under no latitude of construction will the term comprehend consuls.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

ungeswuncen not laboured over, not well done , WW 430 11 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Transaktionen particular partnership Gesellschaft leisten keep company Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung limited liability company Gesellschaft mit unbeschränkter Haftung unlimited company Gesellschafter associate Gesellschafter partner in a firm Gesellschafter; Partner partner Gesellschaftskapital joint capital of a company Gesellschaftsregister register of joint stock companies Gesellschaftsvermögen assets of a company Gesellschaftsvertrag contract of association Gesellschaftsvertrag der oHG deed of partnership Gesetz Act of Parliament Gesetz statute Gesetz betreffend den Verkauf von Waren Sale of Goods Act Gesetz der Ausnahme law of exception Gesetz der großen Zahl law of large numbers Gesetz der Ökonomie der Zeit law of economy of time Gesetz des komparativen Nutzens law of comparative advantages Gesetz gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb Fair Trade Law Gesetz vom abnehmenden Ertrag law of diminishing returns Gesetz von Angebot und Nachfrage law of supply and demand Gesetz von Ursache und Wirkung law of cause and effect Gesetzesübertretung breach of law Gesetzesübertretung malfeasance Gesetzgebung legislation gesetzlich legal gesetzlich festgelegt statutory gesetzlich; rechtsgültig legal gesetzliche Rücklagen legal reserves gesetzlicher Höchstzinssatz legal rate gesetzlicher Mindestsatz legal minimum rate gesetzlicher Schadensersatzanspruch damages at law gesetzlicher Vertreter statutory agent gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel legal tender gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel (US) lawful money gesetzwidriger Vertrag illegal contract gesicherte Verbindlichkeiten secured liabilities gesichertes Darlehen secured credit gesperrte Guthaben frozen assets gesperrte Schuld; verjährte Schuld barred debt gesperrter Kredit; eingefrorener Kredit frozen credit gesperrtes Konto blocked account gesperrtes Konto frozen account gesponserte Sendung; geförderte Sendung sponsored broadcast Gespräch mit dem Festland continental call Gesprächsgebühr call-charge gestaffelte Steuer graded tax gestaffelter Preis graduated price Gestalter designer gestalterische Arbeit creative work gestattet nach geltendem Recht authorized by the law in force Gestell rack gestern yesterday gestern morgens yesterday morning gestufte Prämien stepped bonus gestundete Fracht respited freight gestützt auf based on gestützter Preis pegged price gesunde Währung sound currency gesunder Wettbewerb fair competition Gesundheit health Gesundheitsbescheinigung bill of health
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Let us not lose our laughing at him, for God’s sake!
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 2 by John Marston

But the bad do not love wisdom any more than the good; for, as we have already seen, neither is unlike the friend of unlike, nor like of like.
— from Lysis by Plato

A wise man sávio uómo never leaves off learning mai tralasciáre imparáre whilst he lives; finchè vivere for he who has great wisdom, perchè è dotato di grande sapere has still need of ancora bisógno more knowledge.
— from Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language by Ferdinando Bottarelli

It was very picturesque, with its flags, banners, gayly bedecked booths, and mammoth placards, there being, as usual, no lack of color or objects.
— from The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

This springs from no spirit of envy or uncharitableness, nor lack of pride in the great industrial achievements that have placed this country at the head of the nations struggling for commercial supremacy.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

Here it was market-day, too, and, as usual, no lack of attendants: swarms of peasants in their blue cloaks, squatting by their stalls here and there.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

the vanguards are engaged Let us not leave one man to guard the walls; Both old and young, the coward and the brave, Be summoned all, our utmost fate to try, And as one body move, whose soul am I. [Exeunt.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden

There is much evidence showing that while inventions greatly diminish the amount of labor necessary to accomplish a certain result, on the other hand they open up new lines of industry which fully compensate laborers for the loss which would otherwise fall upon them.
— from American Inventions and Inventors by William A. (William Augustus) Mowry