share, stock certificate; coupon, bond coupon.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

it was cloudy generally.—Wind from N. E.—saw a great abundance of fowls, brant, large geese, white brant sandhill Cranes, common blue crains, cormarants, haulks, ravens, crows, gulls and a great variety of ducks, the canvas back, duckinmallard, black and white diver, brown duck—&c &c H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

SYN: Contract, compact, bond, concord, concurrence, conformity, harmony, unison, consonance, bargain, covenant, obligation, undertaking, treaty.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And this program shall continue, city by city, until there has been deposited on Venus a sufficient vanguard of citizens to protect our manifest rights in that planet.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

, q. , 629 Carter Bros. & Co., 507 Carter, Macy & Co., 480 Carter, Mann & Co., 501 Cartons ( see Containers ) Casanas, Ben. C., 503 , 513 , 535 ; q. , 415 Case, Howard E., 496 Caseneuve, pat.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In like manner and spirit Mr. Justice Chase had previously declared that "an act of the legislature contrary to the great first principles of the social compact cannot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority."
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

For great intellectual merit, wherever it has been steadily contemplated, cannot but conciliate some personal regard: and for my own part I acknowledge that, abstracting altogether from the use to which a man [Pg 155] of splendid endowments may apply them—or even supposing the case that he should deliberately apply them to a bad one, I could no more on that account withhold my good wishes and affection from his person—than, under any consideration of their terrific attributes, I could forbear to admire the power and the beauty of the serpent or the panther.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

All elasticity, as seen in springs, collision, &c. belongs chiefly to repulsion.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 by Various

Yet they go down to the very roots of the sanitary condition of the people of London, and show how great is the task to be accomplished before the sanitary condition can be considered satisfactory or even safe.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

Scheck cheque book Scheckbuch; Scheckheft cheque to bearer Überbringerscheck cheque to order Orderscheck cheque transactions Scheckverkehr chief Chef chief accountant Hauptbuchhalter chief executive leitender Angestellter chief of an agency (US) Leiter einer Vertretung; Abteilung child allowance Kinderermäßigung choice Wahl; Auswahl choice of occupation Berufswahl church tax Kirchensteuer circulation of money Geldumlauf cipher Chiffre circular letter Rundschreiben circular note Reisekreditbrief circular ticket Rundreisefahrkarte circular trip Rundreise circulate in Umlauf sein circulating capital Betriebskapital circulation of bank notes Notenumlauf circulation Umlauf; Zirkulation circumstances Umstände city Innenstadt; Geschäftsstadt City Weltwirtschaftszentrum London City of London Stadt London city limits Stadtgrenzen city planner Stadtplaner city transportation städtische Verkehrsmittel civil servant Beamter civil service öffentlicher Dienst; Staatsdienst claim Anspruch; Forderung; Klage claim for damages
— from Mr. Honey's Small Business Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig

Not that Mr. Temple," she continued, "could be called a dark and mysterious character, no, for he gave one the idea of being naturally of a disposition clear and open as the day; but there was a mystery and impenetrability about his coming to Wales, and his former history.
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey

—Owing to their hard outer skeleton, Coleoptera can be collected, handled, and preserved with greater safety and with less trouble than most other orders of insects.
— from Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Charles V. (Charles Valentine) Riley

When the British Government wakes up to a recognition of the fact that we have interests to protect in the region between the Black Sea and the Caspian, the consulate in Tiflis (abolished in 1881, “because the objects for which it was founded were not accomplished”) may, perhaps, be re-established, and in that case no more able and sympathetic consul could be chosen than Mr. D. R. Peacock, who for so many years has upheld the honour of our flag in the fever-stricken swamps of Poti and Batum.
— from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song by John Oliver Wardrop