“We need not undress,” he added, “as we mean to leave very early, but you can take off your clothes, sir, because you are not going with us, and you will like to remain in bed to-morrow morning.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This alteration, it has been supposed by many people, might very easily be brought about.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Fairfax, whose name in armes through Europe rings Filling each mouth with envy, or with praise, And all her jealous monarchs with amaze, And rumors loud, that daunt remotest kings, Thy firm unshak'n vertue ever brings Victory home, though new rebellions raise Their Hydra heads, & the fals North displaies Her brok'n league, to impe their serpent wings, O yet a nobler task awaites thy hand; Yet what can Warr, but endless warr still breed, 10 Till Truth, & Right from Violence be freed, And Public Faith cleard from the shamefull brand Of Public Fraud.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

But it is conceivable that the now utterly lost branchiae might have been gradually worked in by natural selection for some quite distinct purpose: in the same manner as, on the view entertained by some naturalists that the branchiae and dorsal scales of Annelids are homologous with the wings and wing-covers of insects, it is probable that organs which at a very ancient period served for respiration have been actually converted into organs of flight.
— 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

I grew very excited by this inspection of her increasing charms, and determined to have a fuck on the rug before the fire.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Ausfuhrprämie export bonus Ausfuhrrechnung export invoice Ausführung execution Ausführung performance Ausführung eines Vertrages execution of a contract Ausführungsanzeige advice of deal Ausfuhrvergütung bounty on exports Ausfuhrzoll export duty ausfüllen fill in ausfüllen; vollständig complete Ausgabe issue Ausgabe einer Anleihe issue of a loan Ausgabe von Banknoten issue of notes Ausgabe; Aufwand expenditure Ausgabe; Auslage outlay ausgabebereit ready to spend Ausgabegerät output device Ausgabegewohnheit spending habit Ausgabekurs issue price Ausgaben expenses Ausgaben machen incur expenditures Ausgabenschätzung estimation of expenditure Ausgabenumfang volume of expenditure Ausgabeort place of issue Ausgabeposten element of expenditure Ausgabetag date of issue Ausgang exit Ausgangsbasis starting basis Ausgangsdeklaration clearance outwards Ausgangsfracht freight outward Ausgangsposition starting position Ausgangspost outgoing mail Ausgangstelex outgoing telex Ausgangsware outgoing goods ausgearbeitet elaborate ausgeben dispense ausgeben spend ausgeben; aufwenden lay out ausgeben; emittieren issue ausgebeutet exploited ausgebildet trained ausgedehnt vast ausgedrückt expressed ausgefallene Idee gimmick ausgegebene Aktien issued capital ausgegebenes Kapital issued capital stock ausgeglichen; gestaffelt equated ausgeglichene Entwicklung balanced development ausgeglichener Etat balanced budget ausgehendes Gespräch outgoing call ausgelegt construed ausgeloste Wertpapiere called bonds ausgenommen except ausgenommen; erlassen exempt ausgenommene Risiken excepted perils ausgeschlossen von barred from ausgesetzt; ausgestellt exposed ausgesondert und bezeichnete Ware ascertained goods ausgestellt issued ausgestellt an den Absender issued to the consignor ausgestellt in drei Originalen issued in three originals ausgestellt von einer beschriebenen Person issued by a person so defined ausgewählter Zeitwert selected time ausgewertet evaluated ausgewiesener Preis marked price Ausgleich der Bewegungen balance of motions Ausgleich einer Differenz adjustment of a difference Ausgleich einer Rechnung settlement of an account Ausgleich; Liquidation; Abrechnung settlement ausgleichen equalize ausgleichen equate ausgleichen to make up for sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Not a very enthralling book; but at the first glance you could see there a singleness of intention, an honest concern for the right way of going to work, which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a professional light.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

This novel mode of tormenting a fellow-creature was immediately put into practice, and the unhappy victim expired beneath the torments, which seemed to delight his inhuman persecutors.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

BYRON (2 Vols.) Edited by Mathilde Blind.
— from The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

Lord St. Jerome was quite proud of receiving his letters and newspapers at Vauxe earlier by far than he did at St. James’s Square; and, as all were supplied with their letters and journals, there was a great demand, for news, and a proportional circulation of it.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"Mon cœur, qui vous est bien dévot, Et que vous réduisez en cendre, Vous le tenez dans un cachot Comme un prisonnier qu'on va pendre.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various

If the visitor enters by the great western doors, he cannot fail to be impressed by the grand view which presents itself, the fine Nave, the broad Transepts, the lofty Reredos, more than 400 feet distant; and, as he paces eastward, at every step some fresh beauty reveals itself.
— from Views of St. Paul's Cathedral, London by W. J. (William John) Sparrow-Simpson

It has two square towers at its west end, which are not so high as those of Westminster Abbey; they are, however, very richly ornamented externally, and the sculptured work about the grand entrance is very elaborate, but it is so much blackened and defaced by time as to have become almost unintelligible.
— from Peregrine in France: A Lounger's Journal, in Familiar Letters to His Friend by William Bromet

“A pretty villa, embowered by trees!
— from Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin by William Henry Giles Kingston

He claimed also that he could put me to sleep very easily, but I feel that he cannot." "Excellent!
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

At earlier times, when the penal laws against Nonconformists were in vigorous exercise, Bunyan had to hold his meetings by stealth in private houses and other places where he might hope to escape the lynx-eyed informer.
— from The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables

Yes, it might be, villages, villages everywhere, but ships—ships below!
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye

Des Barres led the van, English bowmen, Norman knights.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett