Countervening factors included the presence of Chinese agitation both Kuomintang and Communist in leadership, guerrilla operations throughout Southeast Asia, and the ruinous economic effects of American submarine and Fourteenth Air Force anti-shipping operations. — from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
But the beacons were not fired, because it had been usual to look for them lighted from the east onwards, and nobody had observed them from the east coast; and besides King Hakon had set heavy penalties for giving false alarm, by lighting the beacons without occasion. — from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
come a better knight
Anon came in King Arthur also, and prayed him of his courtesy to help her, saying, “I require you for the love of Lancelot.” “My lord,” said he, “ye require the greatest thing of me that any man can ask, for if I do this battle for the queen I shall anger all my fellows of the Table Round; nevertheless, for my lord Sir Lancelot’s sake, and for yours, I will that day be the queen’s champion, unless there chance to come a better knight than I am to do battle for her.” — from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
contained and because Kit
In this way they travelled on until near midnight, when they stopped to supper, for which meal the single gentleman ordered everything eatable that the house contained; and because Kit’s mother didn’t eat everything at once, and eat it all, he took it into his head that she must be ill. — from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
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Bezug auf solche Verträge reference to such contracts Bezüge; Dienstbezüge emoluments bezüglich in respect of bezüglich re bezüglich regarding bezüglich respective bezüglich respectively Bezugnahme reference Bezugnahme; Referenz reference Bezugsbedingungen; Kaufbedingungen terms of purchase bezugsgfertig ready for occupancy Bezugsleistung performance of comparison Bezugsleistung reference performance Bezugssystem frame of reference Bietender; Kaufinteressent bidder Bietungsgarantie bid bond Bietungsgarantie tender guarantee Bilanz balance sheet Bilanzanalytiker financial analyst bilanzieren make up the balance Bilanzposten item of the balance sheet Bilanzprüfung balance-sheet audit Bilanzstichtag date of balance Bilanztag; Abschlusstag balance date Bilanzverschleierung cooking of balances Bilanzverschleierung doctoring of balances bilaterales Monopol bilateral monopoly Bilddokumentation pictorial documentation Bilder auf Banknoten denominational portraits Bilderarchiv; Bildarchiv picture library Bilderbeilage; bebilderte Beilage pictorial supplement Bildschirm screen Bildung von Reserven creation of reserves Bildungsaufwand cost of education Bildungsstand educational background billig cheap billig und schäbig gebautes Haus jerry-built house billig verkaufen sell cheap billigen; akzeptieren approve billiger Preis knock-out price billiger werden cheapen billiges Darlehen cheap credit billiges Geld cheap money billiges Geld wegen billiger Zinsen cheap money billiges Geld; billiger Kredit easy money Billigkeit cheapness Billigkeit; Gerechtigkeit equity Billigprodukt cheap article billigst kaufen buy at cheapest billigst kaufen buy best billigst kaufen buy cheapest Billigung approval Bimetallismus bimetalism bindende Wirkung binding effect Bindfaden string Binnenhandel domestic commerce Binnenhandel domestic trade Binnenhandel home trade bis auf weiteres pending further notice bis auf Widerruf until cancelled bis der Wechsel fällig wird until the bill matures bis die Fracht bezahlt ist until the freight has been paid bis die Gebühren bezahlt sind until the charges are paid bis die letzte Rate bezahlt ist until the final instalment is paid bis sie plaziert sind until they have been placed bis zu dem Punkt; an dem to the point where bis zu dem Zeitpunkt; in dem until such time as bis zu deren Ankunft until their arrival bis zum endgültigen Bestimmungsort to the point of final destination bis zum genau angegebenen Datum by specified date bis zum Zeitpunkt der Verladung up to the time of loading blanko akzeptieren accept in blank Blankoabtretung transfer in blank Blankoakzept acceptance in blank Blankoakzept blank acceptance — from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
After that the libraries and reading-rooms, small for the smaller cities, are cleaner and better kept, show signs of care and intelligence; until at last, in Calgary, you find a very neat and carefully kept building, stocked with an immense variety of periodicals, and an admirably chosen store of books, ranging from the classics to the most utterly modern literature. — from Letters from America by Rupert Brooke
Once more Clerambault found himself wrapt in solitude; but this time she appeared to him as never before, calm and beautiful, kindness shining from her face, with eyes full of affection and soft cool hands which she laid on his fevered forehead. — from Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland
called affectionately Bruder Klaus
Nicolas von der Flüe (often called affectionately Bruder Klaus; his real name was Löwenbrugger) was born at Flühli, where the Melch Thal joins the Aa valley, in 1417; and after many years of active life, including some experience of war, retired, in about his fiftieth year, to a hermitage in the gorge of the river a few minutes' walk distant from his native village, where he is said to have subsisted solely on the Sacramental Wafer, of which — from The Lake of Lucerne by Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest) Morris
He could show the lieutenant where the opening was in the cliff, and by knowing that it would be easy to track out the land entrance. — from Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn
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