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an erroneous view still
He contends that while indeed the day on the stage is merely artificial, the architecture only symbolical, and the metrical dialogue purely ideal in character, nevertheless an erroneous view still prevails in the main: that it is not enough to tolerate merely as a poetical license that which is in reality the essence of all poetry.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Adonai Echad VOICES Sighing
Shema Israel Adonai Elohenu Adonai Echad. VOICES: (Sighing.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

aptum est vitare salaces
Nec minus erucas aptum est vitare salaces, Et quicquid veneri corpora nostra parat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

and every virtuous senator
The dignity, the freedom, the authority of the senate was restored; and every virtuous senator might approach the person of the emperor without a fear and without a blush.
— 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

aire either vpon Sea
They can rayse stormes and tempestes in the aire, either vpon Sea or land, though not vniuersally, but in such a particular place and prescribed boundes, as God will permitte them so to trouble: Which likewise is verie easie to be discerned from anie other naturall tempestes that are meteores, in respect of the suddaine and violent raising thereof, together with the short induring of the same.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

angry el verme siempre
Mas ya me irrita, por Dios, But, by God, I grow angry el verme siempre burlado, knowing I’m always tricked, corriendo desatentado always the one who’s picked siempre de sombras en pos.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

agreement einen Vertrag schließen
einen Text kürzen abbreviate a text einen Überseemarkt erschließen to develop an overseas market einen Unfall erleiden to meet with an accident einen Vergleich annehmen accept a compromise einen Vergleich annehmen to accept a compromise einen Vergleich erreichen to reach a settlement einen Vergleich schließen; sich einigen to come to a compromise einen Vergleich schließen; sich einigen to make a compromise einen Vergleich vorschlagen offer a compromise einen Verlust abdecken cover a loss einen Verlust erleiden incur a loss einen Vertrag als richtig anerkennen; bestätigen to affirm a contract einen Vertrag aufheben to annul a contract einen Vertrag aufkündigen to cancel a contract einen Vertrag auslegen construe a contract einen Vertrag entwerfen draw up a contract einen Vertrag entwerfen drawing up a contract einen Vertrag schließen conclude a contract einen Vertrag schließen contract einen Vertrag schließen enter into a contract einen Vertrag schließen enter into an agreement einen Vertrag schließen make an agreement einen Vertrag schließen to conclude an agreement einen Vertrag schließen to enter a contract einen Vertrag übernehmen to adopt a contract einen Vertrag unterzeichnen sign a contract einen Vertrag verlängern to renew a contract einen Vertreter bestellen to nominate a representative einen Vertreter bestellen; einsetzen to appoint an agent einen Vertreter einsetzen; bestellen appoint an agent einen Vorschlag annehmen accept a proposal einen Waggon beladen to load a wagon einen Waggon beschaffen to order a wagon einen Wechsel akzeptieren accept a bill einen Wechsel akzeptieren to accept a bill of exchange einen Wechsel aufnehmen take up the bill einen Wechsel ausstellen make out a bill einen Wechsel bei Vorlage einlösen honour a bill on presentation einen Wechsel bezahlen; eine Tratte bezahlen to pay a bill of exchange einen Wechsel diskontieren discount a bill einen Wechsel einlösen encash a bill einen Wechsel einlösen honour a bill einen Wechsel einlösen to answer a bill of exchange einen Wechsel nicht einlösen dishonour a bill einen Wechsel nochmals ziehen redraft a bill of exchange einen Wechsel verlängern renew a bill einen
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

an exhalation vapour smoke
Ἀτμίς, ίδος, ἡ, an exhalation, vapour, smoke, Ac. 2.19.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

ac enatando vel Scapha
Quidam evadunt, vel tabula , 7. ac enatando, vel Scapha , 8.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Atra elytris vittâ sanguineâ
Blatta (Phoraspis) Picta. Atra; elytris vittâ sanguineâ thoracisque margine antico flavescenti.
— from Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3 by Dru Drury

all events very small
But the rate of subsidence is at all events very small, and therefore the encroachments of the ocean upon the coast are mainly to be ascribed to the erosion and transportation of the soil by marine waves and currents.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

almost every vacant spot
The interior, when I arrived, was lit by three candles stuck in bottles, which showed officers in almost every vacant spot, with the exception of one corner, where a telephone orderly was situated with his apparatus.
— from Mud and Khaki: Sketches from Flanders and France by Vernon Bartlett

an English vessel should
The captain then inquired what English ships were in the harbour, but we could not make out a word of what was said in reply; still, of course, taking her for Spanish, this did not surprise us, except that it seemed somewhat strange that an English vessel should not have been stationed at the mouth of the harbour.
— from The Loss of the Royal George by William Henry Giles Kingston

and every victor s
What then must it have been in those cruel and vindictive days eight hundred years ago, when every man's hand was ready to strike, and every victor's sword was quick to destroy.
— from Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks

as every valiant soldier
In the hour of his death he said, in the Spanish language, to those around him: "Here I, Richard Grenville, die with a joyous and quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honor, my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant soldier is in his duty bound to do."
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

an entire vessel So
The north-country term keel means an entire vessel: "So many keels touched the strand."
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

Atticorum exemplarium vestigia secutus
II. 9) boldly expresses the opinion: "Atque omnino Plautus multo pressius Atticorum exemplarium vestigia secutus est quam hodie vulgo arbitrantur".
— from The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton W. (Wilton Wallace) Blancké

and experienced visitors should
At the same time she strongly recommends that only orderly and experienced visitors should e
— from Elizabeth Fry by Emma Raymond Pitman

accuracy English veracity solidity
A man full of English accuracy; English veracity, solidity, simplicity; by whom this universal Jail-commission, not to be paid for in money but far otherwise, is set about, with all the slow energy, the patience, practicality, sedulity and sagacity common to the best English commissioners paid in money and not expressly otherwise.
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle


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