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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

brechen unterbrechen break breite Schrift
Bullen bull market Börsenspekulant stock exchange speculator Börsenspekulation gambling on the stock exchange Börsentermingeschäft time bargain Börsenumsatzsteuer stock exchange tax Börsenumsatzsteuer (US) stock tax Börsenwert stock exchange value Börsenzentrum in New York Wall Street bösartige Sachbeschädigungen malicious damages böswillig malicious Böswilligkeit malice Botengang errand Botschaft embassy Boykott boycott Boykottierung boycotting brach liegen to lie idle brachliegendes Kapital inactive capital brachliegendes Kapital loose capital brachliegendes Kapital unemployed capital Brainstorming-Methode brainstorming Branchenadressbuch classified directory Brandschaden fire loss Brandstiftung arson Brauch custom Brauch; Gepflogenheit usage Brauereiaktien breweries shares brechen infringe brechen; unterbrechen break breite Schrift; doppeltbreite Schrift expanded type breites Angebot offer of a variety of goods Brennpunkt; Blickpunkt focal point Brief letter Brief mit eingelegten Barmitteln cash letter Brief; Drucktype; Buchstabe letter Briefgeheimnis secrecy of letters Briefkasten letter-box Briefkasten mail box Briefkasten (Br.) pillar box
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

by us both be spent
The time 'twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

by us both be spent
The time ’twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

backed up bi bank stock
Joe, for heaven's sake don't marry for pedigree; thare aint much in pedigree, unless it iz backed up bi bank stock; a family, with nothing but pedigree, generally lacks sense; they are like a kight with tew much tail; if they would only take oph sum ov the tail, they mite possibly git up, but they are always tew illustrious to take off any tail.
— from Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things by Josh Billings

Boats up be boats safe
Boats up be boats safe.
— from A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds

but usually by bad shoeing
Caused sometimes by weakness and fatigue, but usually by bad shoeing, and a good blacksmith is the best adviser.
— from Horsemanship for Women by Theodore H. (Theodore Hoe) Mead

been used before by someone
But if the air has been used before by someone in breathing it has become bad and the blood does not get the benefit from contact with it in the lungs that nature intended.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 1900 by Various

before Uncle Brownwood Bear started
He had a number of playthings, too, and plenty of nice things to eat, and every morning, before Uncle Brownwood Bear started out he would put out enough to last Cousin Redfield all day—some ripe berries, and apples, with doughnuts, and such things, and always some bread and butter and molasses to finish up on.
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine

but upheld by birth Since
This is as it should be, when— "Some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth." Since leaving Attok, we had been accompanied by an escort of Sikhs, under Sirdar Lana Singh, [Pg 277] who, it was expected, would have met the commander-in-chief on the frontier with an invitation to visit Maharajah Kurruk Singh (the reigning monarch of the country) at Lahore.
— from Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Vol. 1 (of 2) Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6. by Daniel Henry MacKinnon

Back uniform brownish black scarcely
Back uniform, brownish black, scarcely paler beneath; cheeks nearly black; underside of wings, and interfemoral membrane with lines of hairs; heel bone elongated, slender; ears moderate rounded; tragus oblong blunt; fore-arm bone, 1 10-12; shin bone, 9-12 of an inch.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George, Sir

by us but being small
In the meantime we saw a sail pass by us, but being small we regarded it not.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr


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