Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions. — from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
apart from everybody else she
She was at the station, standing just a little apart from everybody else; she was sitting in the open taxi outside; she was at the garden gate; walking across the parched grass; at the door, or just inside the hall. — from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
all farther experiences equally satisfactorily
Expedient in almost any fashion; and expedient in the long run and on the whole of course; for what meets expediently all the experience in sight won't necessarily meet all farther experiences equally satisfactorily. — from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
and forgetting everything else she
The sight of it made her start; and, forgetting everything else, she stood gazing on it in motionless wonder, while these thoughts crossed her: “This is strange indeed! — from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
and from enrolling Egyptian strangers
Moreover if you advise men of worth to live un 375 known and in obscurity, you say to Epaminondas, Do not be a general; and to Lycurgus, Do not be a legislator; and to Thrasybulus, Do not be a tyrannicide; and to Pythagoras, Do not teach; and to Socrates, Do not discourse; and first and foremost you bid yourself, Epicurus, to refrain from writing letters to your friends in Asia, and from enrolling Egyptian strangers among your disciples, and from dancing attendance on the youths of Lampsacus, and sending books to all quarters to display your wisdom to all men and all women, and leaving directions in your will about your funeral. — from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
A Favour Extemporaneous Effusion Song
The Lave O't My Eppie Adair On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary The Kirk Of Scotland's Alarm Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents Sonnet On Receiving A Favour Extemporaneous Effusion Song—Willie Brew'd — from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
a fee Erlass einer Schuld
Erkennungskode identifying code Erkennungs-Symbole anbringen to place identifying symbols Erkennungszeichen anbringen to place identifying marks erklären declare erklären explain erklären; Kommentar comment Erklärung declaration Erklärung explanation Erklärung statement Erklärung der Absicht; Absichtserklärung declaration of intent Erklärung der Dividende declaration of dividend Erklärung der Zahlungsunfähigkeit declaration of inability to pay Erklärung einer Absicht; Willenserklärung declaration of intention erlangen; erhalten obtain Erlass einer Gebühr waiver of a fee Erlass einer Schuld release of a debt Erlass; Anweisung writ erlauben allow erlauben; Erlaubnis permit Erlaubnis allowance Erlaubnis concession Erlaubnis permission Erlaubnis; Urlaub leave Erläuterung; Anmerkung annotation erledigen; handhaben handle erledigte Arbeit; vollbrachte Arbeit work done Erledigung der Aufgabe job completion Erledigung der Dienstleistung service completion erleichtern facilitate erleichtern lighten erleichtern; Erleichterung ease Erleichterung; Nachlassen der Belastung easing — from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
and finding everyone entirely satisfactory
Well, shall we get home by evening?” “Eh, we must!” On reaching home and finding everyone entirely satisfactory and particularly charming, Darya Alexandrovna began with great liveliness telling them how she had arrived, how warmly they had received her, of the luxury and good taste in which the Vronskys lived, and of their recreations, and she would not allow a word to be said against them. — from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
This was a most happy plan for Ferdy, and for everybody, especially so far as the carving lessons were concerned, for Mr. Brock could only come in the evening, and but for Miss Lilly's presence there might have been difficulties in the way, Mrs. Ross was so terribly afraid of overtiring Ferdy, and nervous about his straining himself or doing too much in any way. — from The Oriel Window by Mrs. Molesworth
available for extraordinary expenses such
[102] supply of cash available for extraordinary expenses, such as mending the roads or entertaining distinguished visitors. — from The Story of Madras by Glyn Barlow
and form every extravagant Species
Nor is this all I learnt from him, tho' I cannot part with this, till I have publisht a Memento Mori , and told 'em what I had discovered of Nature in these remote Parts of the World, from whence I take the Freedom to tell these Gentlemen, That if they please to Travel to these distant Parts, and examine this great Master of Nature's Secrets, they may every Man see what cross Strokes Nature has struck, to finish and form every extravagant Species of that Heterogenious Kind we call Wit . — from The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe
a fine Early English structure
St. James' Cathedral, near Yonge Street, is a fine Early English structure, with a noble clock and a grand spire rising three hundred and sixteen feet. — from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook
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