Fallen is the sun who gave us light, Our lordly moon is veiled in night.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Petrov got up, leaning on his stick, and looked shyly at the prince.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He had not been seated in the parlour, where the company was expecting the dinner summons, four minutes, when, a pause in the conversation ensuing, he got up, looked out of window, and pulling down his ruffles—an ordinary motion with him—observed, "it was a gloomy day," and added, "Miss Blandy must be hanged by this time, I suppose."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The sudden trumpet sounded as in a dream To ears but half-awaked, then one low roll Of Autumn thunder, and the jousts began: And ever the wind blew, and yellowing leaf And gloom and gleam, and shower and shorn plume Went down it. Sighing weariedly, as one Who sits and gazes on a faded fire, When all the goodlier guests are past away, Sat their great umpire, looking o'er the lists.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening building, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the street and the gutter.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

van Liegegeld demurrage Liegegeldbetrag demurrage amount Liegenschaften landed property limitierter Auftrag limit order linear straight proportional lineare Abschreibung linear depreciation lineare Erhöhung linear increase lineare Programmierung linear programming linearer Akkord straight piecework linearer Akkord straight piecework system linearer Akkord straight proportional scheme Linie; Branche; Artikel; Telephonverbindung line Linienführung line management liquid solvent Liquidation dissolution Liquidation liquidation Liquidation; Auflösung liquidation Liquidationstag pay day Liquidator liquidator liquide Aktivposten quick assets liquidieren; auflösen liquidate Liquidität liquidity Liquidität solvency Liquiditätsengpaß liquidity bottleneck Liquiditätsklemme liquidity sqeeze Liquiditätsproblem liquidity problem Liquiditätsquote liquidity ratio Liquiditätsumschichtung change in liquidity Liquiditätsvorschriften liquidity requirements List der Gläubiger list of creditors Liste list Liste der Aktionäre list of stockholders Liste der Aussteller list of exhibitors Liste der Direktoren register of directors Liste der engeren Wahl short list Liste der getätigten Umsätze list of sales Liste der Hersteller list of manufacturers Liste der Inserenten list of advertisers Liste der Käufer list of buyers Liste der Kaufinteressenten list of prospectice customers Liste der Kunden list of customers Liste der Lieferanten list of suppliers Liste der Mitglieder list of members Liste der Mitglieder register of members Liste der Schiffsabfahrten sailing list Liste zur Überprüfung check-list Listenpreis list price Listenpreis listprice Listenpreis scheduled price Literaturbeilage; literarische Beilage literary supplement Lizenz licence Lizenz royalty Lizenz (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Wee are yongue, thou spoilst our pleasure; Goe to sea and slumber, Darknes only gives us leasure Our stolne joyes to number. 〈Ad Solem.〉 Ed : no title , Add.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

“Thou didst give us life, O Lord,” they say, “and scarcely had we looked upon it when
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Defoe, in the Memoirs , gives us less of this side of the history of the times than might have been expected.
— from Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

Their cry is 'Give us our Constitutional rights; give us liberty or death.'
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

—It is interesting to observe that although the peace-offering itself stands third in order, yet "the law" thereof is given us last of all.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

In our days we do our best to supply the place of a reluctant Eros by the gilded, grinning Mammon-figure which we try to consider as superior to any silver-pinioned god that ever descended in his rainbow car to sing heavenly songs to mortals; but it is an unlovely substitute,—a hideous idol at best; and grasp its golden knees and worship it as we will, it gives us little or no comfort in the hours of strong temptation or trouble.
— from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul by Marie Corelli

I remember nothing further till a day and a half later, when we got under lee of Crete, and the ship showed a tendency to resume the perpendicular.
— from Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

On Feb. 12, 1825, a treaty had been signed by a few Creek chiefs without the authority or consent of the nation, by which they purported to give up lands of the tribe in Georgia.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

H'mn—a valued possession, then, not likely to be given up lightly, or even lent, much less left about like this.
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew

The unfortunate child whose infancy was passed in the midst of baleful example, whose heart received no instruction from parents' lips, grows up like one stumbling in the dark, and the darkness deepens as he advances; observers cannot tell—he himself cannot tell—what it is at which he stumbles.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton