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could earn a living
Only, one time these visits became a bit too frequent, I began to tell him off for it, we started talking and I became interested how it was that he could earn a living just by painting, and then I learned to my amazement that his main source of income was painting portraits.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Countrey except a little
Elk & Buffalow is verry plenty, Scercely any timber in Countrey except a little on the river in the Points.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Charles Estienne and Liébault
It was so imperfectly cultivated in the northern provinces, that, in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bruyérin Champier speaks of the Languedocians as alone knowing how to produce excellent sucrins --"thus called," say both Charles Estienne and Liébault in the "Maison Rustique," "because gardeners watered them with honeyed or sweetened water."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

capital Einkommen aus Land
Ladenstraße shopping centre einklagbare Forderung recoverable claim einklammern; Klammer bracket Einkommen income Einkommen aus Kapitalvermögen income from capital Einkommen aus Kapitalvermögen income from investment of capital Einkommen aus Land- und Forstwirtschaft income from agriculture and forestry Einkommen der Familie family income Einkommensgruppe income bracket Einkommensklasse income group Einkommensniveau level of income Einkommensquelle source of earnings Einkommensteuer income tax einkommensteuerabzugsfähig deductible from income tax Einkommensteuerberechnung computation of income tax Einkommensteuererklärung income tax return Einkommensteuerzahler income tax payer Einkommensverteilung distribution of income Einkommensverzögerung earnings lag einkopieren superimpose Einkünfte earnings Einkünfte proceeds Einkünfte revenue Einkünfte aus freiberuflicher Tätigkeit professional earnings Einkünfte aus Kapitalvermögen income from capital Einkünfte aus Miete und Verpachtung income from property Einkünfte aus nichtselbständiger Arbeit income from dependent work Einkünfte aus selbstständiger Arbeit income from independent work einladen invite Einladung; Aufforderung invitation Einlage deposit Einlage mit mehrfacher Ziehungsberechtigung alternate deposit Einlage; Anlage enclosure Einlagekapital capital paid up Einlagekapital deposit capital Einlagen deposits Einlagen von Privatpersonen individual deposits Einlassgeld gate money einlaufen; ankommen come in einlegen deposit einleitend introductory einleitender Satz opening paragraph Einleitung introduction einlösbar collectible einlösen encash einlösen honour einlösen; kassieren cash Einlösung encashment Einlösung eines Wechsels discharge of a bill einmal im Monat once a month einmalig one-time einmaliges Verkaufsargument unique selling proposition Einmanngeschäft one-man business Einmannunternehmen one-man concern Einmannunternehmen; Einzelfirma one-man business Einmischung interference Einnahmen receipts Einnahmen takings Einnahmen und Ausgaben receipts and expenditures Einnahmen- und Ausgabenrechnung cash basis accounting Einnahmen; Ertrag returns Einnahmenstrom cash inflow Einnahmequellen means of income einordnen; klassifizieren classify einpacken; eintüten; Beutel; Tasche bag einprägen impress einrahmen; Rahmen frame einreichen hand in einreichen to hand in Einreicher presentor Einreicher- und Inkassobanken remitting and collecting banks Einreisevisum entry visa einrichten institute einrichten set-up Einrichtungen facilities Einrichtungen zur Förderung des Handels commercial facilities einrücken to insert einsacken; Sack sack Einsatz input Einsatz der modernen Technologie employment of modern technology einsatzbereit fir for service einschalten switch on einschätzen estimate Einschätzen der Leistung performance rating Einschätzung der Geschwindigkeit speed rating Einschätzung der Kreditwürdigkeit acid ratio test Einschätzung der Leistung performance rating Einschätzung des Leistungsgrads rating einschiffen embark einschließen enclose einschließen include einschließen; umfassen; beinhalten include einschließlich including einschließlich inclusive einschließlich aller Abgaben including any taxes einschließlich aller Exportabgaben including any export duties einschließlich aller Gebühren including any fees einschließlich aller Kosten including any charges einschließlich Containertransport including container traffic einschließlich der Kosten für including the costs of einschließlich des multimodalen Transports including multi-modal operations einschließlich des Transits including their passage in transit einschließlich Dividende cum dividend einschließlich Ro-Ro Verkehr including roll-on roll-off traffic einschränken restrict einschränkend restrictive einschränkend; beschränkend restrictive Einschränkung; Beschränkung restriction Einschreibbrief registered letter einschreiben enroll Einschreiben registered mail einseitig one-sided einseitig unilateral einsetzen appoint einsetzen to utilise Einsetzung eines Ausschusses appointment of a committee Einsetzung eines Vertreters appointment of an agent Einsicht gewähren allow inspection Einsicht in Akten searching of documents Einsicht; Information intelligence einsparen economize Einsparung saving Einsparung; Ersparnis saving Einspruch objection Einspruch erheben to raise an objection einstellen recruit einstellen; nachstellen; anpassen adjust Einstellung der Verbraucher consumer attitude Einstellung einer Klage abandonment of an action Einstellung überflüssiger Arbeitskräfte feather-bedding Einstellung überflüssiger Arbeitskräfte featherbedding Einstellung von Personal engagement of new staff Einstellung weiterer Entwicklung suspension of further development Einstellung zu etwas attitude towards sth.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Christian era at least
Whatever respect may be due to their attitude in the earlier stages of their history, at the Christian era at least they have ceased to deserve our sympathy; for their position has become mainly negative .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

concert except at Leipsic
This highly-important piece of information decided Blücher and Schwarzenberg to effect a junction of their armies, which the plainest principles of strategy had never previously brought to act in concert except at Leipsic and Brienne.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

conditions extent and limits
In this manner, then, the a priori principles of two faculties of the mind, the faculty of cognition and that of desire, would be found and determined as to the conditions, extent, and limits of their use, and thus a sure foundation be paid for a scientific system of philosophy, both theoretic and practical.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Christian era Argias led
In the year 685 before the Christian era, Argias led a colony from Megara, which he settled at the mouth of the Bosphorus.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

courteously enough and listened
Then he looked up courteously enough, and listened till Sweetwater was done.
— from Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

castigated excoriated and leaked
He was half a boy and half a man and this newly begotten half called a "man" was having manhood castigated, excoriated, and leaked from him.
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills

cannot endure any longer
He has fled from his reservation because, he says, he cannot endure any longer the persecutions and wrongs he has received at the hands of the agent who has charge of the tribe.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various

can entertain anything like
The practical conclusions at which Taylor arrives, in his noble work on the Liberty of Prophesying , bear a close resemblance to those of Locke's Letters on Toleration , while the theoretical considerations on which he mainly founds them, namely, the difficulty of discovering religious truth, and the small number of theological propositions of which we can entertain anything like certainty, might be regarded as anticipating, to no small extent, some of the views expressed in the Reasonableness 165 of Christianity .
— from Locke by Thomas Fowler

continued exposure and lack
Long continued exposure and lack of food had engendered diseases and reduced the poor creatures to the most pitiable condition.
— from Escape from the Confederacy by Benjamin F. Hasson

Col Engineers and Liaisons
Col. Engineers and Liaisons.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

could earn a livelihood
Regarding, with no small curiosity and interest, all the busy preparations for the coming day which every street and almost every house displayed; and thinking, now and then, that it seemed rather hard that so many people of all ranks and stations could earn a livelihood in London, and that he should be compelled to journey so far in search of one; Nicholas speedily arrived at the Saracen’s Head, Snow Hill.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Colonel Easton at Lavaltrie
For, on the 22d, as already stated, the eleven vessels captured by Colonel Easton at Lavaltrie were brought into Montreal with Colonel Prescott and the military prisoners and the released Thomas Walker.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton


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