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discretionary income verfügbares Einkommen disposable
Ware goods on hand verfügbares Einkommen discretionary income verfügbares Einkommen disposable income Verfügbarkeit availability verfügen; verkaufen dispose Verfügung disposal Verfügungsgewalt power of disposition Verfügungsgewalt über die
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

do I vow eternal duty
how grateful to her are the blessings you pour upon her head!-You commit me to my real parent,-Ah, Guardian, Friend, Protector of my youth,-by whom my helpless infancy was cherished, my mind formed, my very life preserved,-you are the Parent my heart acknowledges, and to you do I vow eternal duty, gratitude, and affection!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

divitum in voluptatibus et deliciis
Vitiosum quum soli pauperum liberi educantur ad labores, nobilium et divitum in voluptatibus et deliciis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

disorder is very easily detected
The existence of such a disorder is very easily detected, particularly in the men, in their open style of dress; yet in the whole route down the Columbia, we have not seen more than two or three cases of gonorrhœa, and about double that number of lues venerea.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

doubt in very early days
There is no record of when receptacles for ladies' work were first introduced, although, no doubt, in very early days small oak boxes, carved, and bearing the owner's initials, and other indications of ownership, would be the chosen receptacles for the numerous oddments which are required in the practice and pursuit of every home handicraft, and especially those connected with plying the needle.
— from Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

decreasing in value every day
But what was offered to the husbandman in exchange for his hard toil? Assignats , scraps of paper decreasing in value every day, promises of payment, which could not be kept.
— from The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

days I visited every day
During our stay, which lasted about ten days, I visited every day among the people, and at nightfall we would meet together in one of their wigwams for reading the Scripture and prayer.
— from Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians by Edward Francis Wilson

displayed in various elegant devices
The ladies wore robes of Indian muslin, girdles of gold thread, interwoven with silk of the Fas manufacture; and their shawls of silk and gold were displayed in various elegant devices.
— from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

double it vntil Easter day
Wherefore vpon this determination we went vnder a point of this Island, because it was a fit place to carene the ship: and in recouering the same we spent Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday till noone, and yet for all that wee could not wel double it, vntil Easter day about noone.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

down in value every day
“He gave a disgusted shrug, and added: “‘But now diamonds are going down in value every day.
— from Gobseck by Honoré de Balzac

De inflatione vesice et dolore
The following section, " De inflatione vesice et dolore ejus ," discusses the retention of urine in fevers, and its treatment.
— from Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson


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