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a rush at Christy knocks
He makes a rush at Christy, knocks him down, and begins to beat him.]
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

aufnehmen raise a credit Kredit
Kostenaufstellung cost report Kostenaufstellung specification of costs Kostenberechnung calculation of costs Kostenberechnung computation of costs Kostenberechnung für einen Auftrag job costing Kostenbestandteil element of costs kostenbewusst cost-conscious Kostendämmung cost reduction Kostendenken thinking in terms of cost Kosteneffizienz cost efficiency Kosteneinsparung saving Kostenentwicklung development of costs Kostenermittlung costing Kostenersparnis durch Massenproduktion economies of scale Kostenerstattung compensation for outlay Kostenfaktor expense factor kostengünstigste Losgröße minimum-cost batch size Kostenkomponente cost component Kosten-Leistung Analyse cost-performance analysis kostenlose Anzeige free insertion kostenlose Lebensversicherung free life insurance kostenlose Probe free trial Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnung cost-benefit calculation kostenpflichtig liable for costs Kostenrechnung bill of charges Kostenrechnung cost accounting Kostenrechnung eines Produkts product costing Kostenrechnung für einen Auftrag job costing Kostenreduzierung reduction of expenses Kostensicherung cost assurance kostensparend cost saving Kostenstelle burden centre Kostenstelle cost centre Kostentabelle cost schedule Kostentabelle scale of charges Kostentabelle table of costs Kostenüberwachung control of costs Kostenvergleich comparison of costs Kostenvoranschlag calculation Kostenvoranschlag machen give an estimate for Kostenvorkalkulation estimating Kostenwirksamkeit cost effectiveness Kostenzuordnung cost allocating kostspielig costly Krach crash kraft des Gesetzes by act of law kraft Geburt by birth kraft Gesetzes by operation of law Kraft; zwingen force Krangebühr cranage Krankengeld sick benefit Krankengeld sick pay Krankengeld sickness allowance Krankenversicherung health insurance Krankheitsurlaub sick leave kreativ creative Kredit credit Kredit an Privatpersonen private credit Kredit aufnehmen raise a credit Kredit begrenzt auf credit limited to Kredit eröffnen open a credit Kredit mit kurzer Laufzeit short-term credit Kreditabteilung credit department Kreditabteilung loan department Kreditabteilung loan division Kreditanstalt credit institution Kreditantrag borrowing request Kreditantragsteller credit applicant Kreditaufnahme borrowing Kreditaufnahme raising of credit Kreditauskunft credit information Kreditauskunftei commercial credit agency Kreditausweitung credit expansion Kreditbank credit bank Kreditbedarf demand for advances Kreditbetrug obtain credit by false pretences Kreditbremse credit squeeze Kreditbrief an eine bestimmte Bank direct letter of credit Kreditbrief; Akkreditiv letter of credit Kreditbrief; Reisekreditbrief circular letter of credit Kreditbürge guarantor of a credit Kreditbürgschaft credit guarantee Kreditbüro credit agency Krediteinschränkungen credir restrictions Krediterleichterung credit accomodation
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

and raved and cried Keep
After a little while Mary recovered from her swoon, but only to fall into strong hysterics, in which she laughed and wept and raved and cried, 'Keep him from me—from me, Joshua, my husband,' and many other words of entreaty and of fear.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

and reigned a certain King
Over seas there dwelt and reigned a certain King in Sweden; there farmed, and walked musing by the shores of the Ouse in Huntingdonshire, a certain man;—there was a Gustav Adolf over seas, an Oliver Cromwell over seas; and "a company of poor men" were found capable of taking Lucifer by the beard,—who accordingly, with his Lammerleins, Hyacinths, Habernfeldts and others, was forced to withdraw, after a tough struggle!— H2 anchor Chapter XVI.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

around right again continued Kate
“And so that's why I was particularly anxious to bring things around right again,” continued Kate.
— from Miss Billy by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

and respect a cheerful knave
I admire and respect a cheerful knave, but let there be moderation in all things.
— from A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay

and rings and costly knickknacks
He was far too profusely set about with pretty things, lockets and rings and costly knickknacks; on the other hand his handkerchief was tied with a more than Byronic negligence.
— from Chronicles of Dustypore: A Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society by Cunningham, H. S. (Henry Stewart), Sir

a receivership and Chadwick knows
Dunton can't stand for a receivership, and Chadwick knows it.
— from The Wreckers by Francis Lynde

after retained a considerable knowledge
[6] Lord Robert Manners , the youngest son of the Marquis of Granby and the Lady Frances Seymour, daughter of Charles Duke of Somerset, was born the 5th of February, 1758; and was placed with his brother, the late Duke of Rutland, at Eton-School, where he acquired, and ever after retained, a considerable knowledge of the classical authors.
— from Poems by George Crabbe

and rávals are called kuvars
The sons of rájás , ránás , rávs , and rávals are called kuvars and their sons thákurs .
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

a right auncient custome kept
Howbeit, some doe say, that before Aristinus was borne, these ceremonies were observed about those Histropotmi , and that this {11} was a right auncient custome kept in the semblable case: and therefore no marvell it is, that the Romans also thought, that such as were supposed to have beene once buried, and raunged with the dead in another world, ought not to enter in at the same porch, out of which they goe, when they purpose to sacrifice unto the gods, or at which they reenter when they returne from sacrifice: but would have them from above to descend through the tiles of the roufe into the close house, with the aire open over their heads: for all their purifications ordinarily they performed without the house abroad in the aire.
— from Plutarch's Romane Questions With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans by Plutarch

away rested a copper kettle
On a trivet provided with lizard feet that threatened to crawl away, rested a copper kettle bereft of its top, once the idol of three generations of Darringtons, to whom it had liberally dispensed "hot water tea," in the blessed dead and embalmed era of nursery rule and parental power; now eschewed with its despised use, and packed to the brim with medicinal "yarbs," bone-set, horse mint, life everlasting, and snake-root.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans


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