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be understood for for example
God knows with how great difficulty most of these things are to be understood: for (for example) how shall the physician find out the true sign of the disease, every disease being capable of an infinite number of indications?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Br unfrei freight forward Empfänger
Empfänger bezahlt die Fracht (Br.); 'unfrei' freight forward Empfänger bezahlt die Fracht (US); 'unfrei' freight collect Empfänger einer Lizenz; Lizenznehmer licensee Empfänger einer Pension holder of a pension Empfänger eines Stipendiums holder of a scholarship Empfänger unbekannt addressee unknown Empfangsanzeige advice of arrival Empfangsanzeige advice of receipt Empfangsbescheinigung receipt voucher Empfangsbestätigung acknowledgement Empfangsbestätigung acknowledgement of receipt Empfangsdame receptionist Empfangsquittung receipt of delivery empfehlen commend empfehlen recommend Empfehlung letter of recommendation Empfehlung recommendation Empfehlungen regards Empfehlungsschreiben commendatory letter Empfehlungsschreiben testimonial Empfehlungsschreiben; Einführungsschreiben recommendatory letter empfindlich sensitive empfohlen recommended empfohlener Einzelhandelsabgabepreis recommended retail selling price empfohlener Preis recommended price empirische Untersuchung empirical study empor schnellen; plötzlicher Anstieg jump en detail by retail en gros verkaufen to sell wholesale Endabrechnung final invoice Endalter age at expiry endbearbeiten finish Endbearbeitung finishing operation Endbescheid; endgültiger Bescheid definite decision Endbestand final stock Endbetrag final amount Ende April end of April Ende; beenden finish endgültig sein to be final endgültig; letzte final endgültiger Bestimmungsort place of final destination endgültiger Entwurf final draft Endkontrolle final inspection endlos endless Endmontage final assembly Endprodukt end product Endprodukt end-product Endprodukt final product Endprüfung final insprection Endstation terminal Endsumme final total Endurteil final judgement Endverbrauch final consumption Endverbraucher end-consumer Endverbraucher final consumer Endverbraucher ultimate consumer Endwert final value Endzweck end in itself Energieeinsparung saving of energy eng; knapp tight Engagement; Beschäftigung engagement enge Auslegung narrow interpretation enge Spanne narrow margin enger Markt narrow market enger Markt; geringer Umsatz narrow market engerer Bereich narrower range Engpass bottleneck engstirnig narrow-minded enorme Nachfrage nach Aktien run on stocks entbehrlich dispensable entbinden absolve entehren; nichtachten; nicht einlösen dishonour enteignen dispossess Enteignung dispossession entfernen; sich entfernen; umziehen remove entfernter Verwandter remote relative entflechten decartelize Entflechtung decartelization Entfremdungskoeffizient alientation coefficient Entführung abduction entgangener Gewinn loss of profit entgangener Gewinn lost profit Entgegenkommen accommodation entgegenkommen accommodate Entgelt money consideration entgelten recompense entgeltliche
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

black ugly faces flabby ear
Their slight graceful figures, supporting chatties on [Pg 399] their heads, were perfect models of beauty; but they had black ugly faces, flabby ear-lobes, and large studs stuck in their noses.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

be unfit for future experiments
As a preliminary experiment, it raised eight men from the ground, and, on the 12th of September, 1783, it ascended, in the presence of the Royal Academy, with a load of from 400 to 500 pounds; but, in consequence of an injury it received in rising from a violent gust of wind, it did not present the same interesting spectacle as the public experiment previously made, and, upon its descent, it was found to be so seriously damaged, as to be unfit for future experiments.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

but unresting flows for ever
From its source, at which a little bright spring bubbles up with a low, softly singing sound, from amid stones and moss and grass, until it becomes merged into the immensity of ship-bearing ocean, our Thames, unhasting but unresting, flows for ever onward between source and sea.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

bring us flowers from eight
Yet we too triumph in the day That bare, to entrance our eyes and ears, To lighten daylight, and to play Such notes as darkness knows and fears, The child whose face illumes our way, Whose voice lifts up the heart that hears, Whose hand is as the hand of May To bring us flowers from eight full years.
— from Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc. From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Algernon Charles Swinburne

bubbles up fountainlike from every
I should have wished to identify myself with this joy in the beauty of the world which bubbles up fountainlike from every one of these sparkling Roman transcripts, why called “Sospiri” I hardly know.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

be used for furthering ends
Because the gold was to be used for furthering ends against one of the South American governments, the gold shipment was not insured and, in consequence, no recovery could be made.
— from Tom Swift and His Undersea Search; Or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Victor Appleton

been under fire for eight
She and Janet and Dr. Wilson had been under fire for eight
— from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

been used for fire engines
The south wing on the lower floor has been used for fire engines until the companies were disbanded prior to the war; but, for several years in the past, they have been used for the public schools of the city, while the large room on the second floor is used for an armory.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

by unnecessary fiction for example
And I venture to remind her that it is fatal in this kind of story to replace known facts by unnecessary fiction; for example, to speak, as she does, of a German warship in the Indian Ocean as the Blücher , when all the world knows that that particular vessel was elsewhere.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 by Various


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