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Christian duty grew clearer every
While fully recognising the right of others to come to a different conclusion from his own, and while uniformly basing his total abstinence on the ground of Christian expediency and not on that of absolute Divine law, his view of it as a Christian duty grew clearer every year.
— from Principal Cairns by John Cairns

calamités des guerres civiles et
Votre Majesté a bien raison si elle regarde avec quelque inquiétude l'état agité de l'Europe, mais je partage aussi avec elle le ferme espoir, que le mal peut être beaucoup amoindri, tant que la France et l'Angleterre s'entendent, et j'y ajouterai, tant que cette entente a pour but désintéressé de préserver au monde la paix et à chaque nation ses droits et ses possessions, et d'adoucir des animosités, qui menacent de produire les plus graves calamités, des guerres civiles et des luttes de races.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Christiano De gradibus cleri ecclesiæ
Talbot, Nicholas Zouch, Walter Midford, & such like in great multitude: sentence was pronounced by Iohn Wels, doctor of the canon law against the books of Iohn Wickliffe doctor of diuinitie, intituled De sermone in monte, Triologorum de simonia, De perfectione statuum, De ordine Christiano, De gradibus cleri ecclesiæ: and to these was added the third treatise, which he compiled of logike or sophistrie.
— from Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV by Raphael Holinshed

cerca di gratificare ciascuno e
[735] "Di natura benignissima, e cerca di gratificare ciascuno, e massime gl' Italiani quanto più gli è possibile, ed è tanto amato, non solamente da tutta la corte, ma da tutto il regno che è cosa incredibile."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

cantares Del gótico castillo el
El puñal de Catón, la adusta frente 50 Del noble Bruto, la constancia fiera Y el arrojo de Scévola valiente, La doctrina de Sócrates severa, La voz atronadora y elocuente Del orador de Atenas, la bandera 55 Contra el tirano macedonio alzando, Y al espantado pueblo arrebatando; El valor y la fe del caballero, Del trovador el arpa y los cantares, Del gótico castillo el altanero, 60 Antiguo torreón, do sus pesares Cantó tal vez con eco lastimero ¡Ay! arrancada de sus patrios lares, Joven cautiva, al rayo de la luna, Lamentando su ausencia y su fortuna; 65
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

call darn good custom East
"Which I call darn good custom, East or West!"
— from Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory

cash drain Geldabfluss cash entry
Kassenbestand cash balance Kassenbestand cash before delivery Kasse vor Lieferung cash book Kassabuch cash box Geldkassette cash business Bargeschäft cash cheque Barscheck cash credit Barkredit cash deposit Bareinzahlung cash diary Kassenkladde cash disbursement Barzahlung cash dispenser Geldautomat cash discount Barzahlungsskonto cash drain Geldabfluss cash entry Kassenbuchung cash flow Geldfluß cash in Kasseneingang cash in bank Bankguthaben cash in hand Kassenbestand cash in transit durchlaufende Gelder cash in vault Kassenbestand cash journal Kassenbuch cash less discount bar abzüglich Skonto cash letter Brief mit eingelegten Barmitteln cash loan Kassendarlehen cash market Kassamarkt cash note Auszahlungsanweisung cash on delivery gegen Nachnahme cash on deposit Festgeld cash on hand Kassenbestand cash only nur gegen bar cash order Kassenanweisung cash out Kassenausgang cash payments Barzahlungen cash position Kassenstand cash price Kassakurs cash purchase Barkauf cash register Registrierkasse cash reserves Geldreserven cash shortage Mangel an Bargeld cash stock taking Kassenrevision cash transaction Bargeschäft cash up Kasse machen, die Kasse abrechnen cash with order zahlbar bei Auftragserteilung cashier in charge Hauptkassier cashier's cheque Bankscheck, Banktratte cashless bargeldlos category of securities Wertpapiergattung cats and dogs verrufene spekulative
— from Mr. Honey's Small Banking Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig


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