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a delay einen Auftrag für
eine Weisung erteilen to issue an instruction eine Weisung zum Einzug von Zinsen an instruction to collect interest eine Wohnung mieten to rent a flat eine Wohnung mieten to rent an apartment eine Zahlung anweisen authorize a payment eine Zahlung leisten make a payment eine Zahlung leisten to make a payment einem Begünstigten avisiert advised to a beneficiary einem Dritten oder mehreren Dritten to one or more other parties einem Frachtführer übergeben delivered to a carrier einem Konto gutschreiben credit an account einem Prozess als Nebenkläger beitreten to join an action einen Antrag stellen to make an application for einen Anspruch anerkennen to admit a claim einen Anspruch erheben lodge a claim einen Anspruch erheben raise a claim einen Anspruch erwerben; ein Anrecht to acquire a title einen Anteil am Geschäft verkaufen sell an interest einen Antrag ablehnen dismiss an application einen Antrag ablehnen to dismiss an application einen Antrag ablehnen to reject an application einen Antrag annehmen; genehmigen; bewilligen to allow an application einen Antrag direkt stellen to apply direct einen Antrag einreichen to submit an application einen Antrag genehmigen allow an application einen Antrag genehmigen to allow an application einen Antrag stellen make an application einen Antrag unterstützen to seconf a motion einen Artikel auszeichnen label an article einen Artikel führen keep an artricle einen Artikel schreiben write an article einen Aufkäuferring binden corner the market einen Aufschub bewilligen to grant a delay einen Auftrag für jemanden platzieren place an order for sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

and doing everything a feller
This comes of playing hookey and doing everything a feller’s told not to do.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

and Dorothy entered and found
So the Scarecrow led her through the trees until they reached the cottage, and Dorothy entered and found a bed of dried leaves in one corner.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

a dolphin embowed azure finned
["Or, a dolphin embowed azure, finned and langued gules"].
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

a distemper eminently armed from
But we were not to expect that the physicians could stop God's judgements, or prevent a distemper eminently armed from heaven from executing the errand it was sent about.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

a delightful endless appetite for
They had a delightful endless appetite for passages in my own history, to which I had again and again treated them; they were in possession of everything that had ever happened to me, had had, with every circumstance the story of my smallest adventures and of those of my brothers and sisters and of the cat and the dog at home, as well as many particulars of the eccentric nature of my father, of the furniture and arrangement of our house, and of the conversation of the old women of our village.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Anonymus de Expeditione Asiaticâ Fred
tom. i. p. 406—416, edit Struv.,) and the Anonymus de Expeditione Asiaticâ Fred. I. (in Canisii Antiq.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

a deterrent effect at first
This was very well so far, for furmity, as the woman had said, was nourishing, and as proper a food as could be obtained within the four seas; though, to those not accustomed to it, the grains of wheat swollen as large as lemon-pips, which floated on its surface, might have a deterrent effect at first.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

a dolphin embowed azure finned
The Dauphin of France bore the Royal Arms undifferenced but never alone, they being always quartered with the sovereign arms of his personal sovereignty of Dauphiné: "Or, a dolphin embowed azure, finned gules."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

acts did Edith Archbold for
These virtuous acts did Edith Archbold for love for a young man.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

and denied everything and finally
The Piegans were humble and apologetic and denied everything, and finally Ross returned their property and gave them a little tobacco and ammunition.
— from Beyond the Old Frontier: Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders by George Bird Grinnell

a drugstore entrance a few
I edged Maxwell toward a drugstore entrance a few feet to the left, but the men from the sedan were at our side in an instant.
— from The Telenizer by Don Thompson

all day except at food
"So can I," said Lissa drily; for the great moaning hum of the thresher filled the air, went on and on as it would all day except at food-times, sounding like some vast wasp held captive and booming unceasingly—some great dragon of a wasp, as Jimmy put it.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

a delightful evening and finally
This was received with great applause; then every one said good-night, assuring each sister that it had been a delightful evening; and finally the last carriage rolled off into the darkness, and the Misses Woodhouse were left, triumphantly exhausted, to discuss the dinner and the guests.
— from John Ward, Preacher by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

and debait engendris and feil
so, 15 With lust of wyne nor warkis veneryane; Thai febill the strenth; revelys secrete bath two Stryfe and debait engendris, and feil hes slane; Honeste, prowes, dreid, schame and luk ar gane
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

and drive every American from
The directors insisted upon the enforcement of their stringent rule, which was, to starve and drive every American from the country.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

a dreadful emergency and following
Even in his false excitement he was dimly aware that he was facing a dreadful emergency, and following an instinctive desire for solitude so characteristic of those in his condition, he took a room in an obscure hotel and gave himself up to thoughts that grew more and more painful as the unnatural dreams inspired by opium shaped themselves gradually into accord with the actualities of his life.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe


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