Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, 1905, X: 118–121.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
The Englishman thinks it the voice of a German, and ‘ does not understand German. ’
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe
Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, 1911, XXI: 102–109.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Zeitschrift für Untersuchung der Nahrungs- und Genussmittel, 1906, XII: 60.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
But when he signed his name, right in between Roderick and MacCallum, he wrote two Gaelic words that meant 'all lies' and the German censor did not understand Gaelic and thought it was all part of Roddy's name.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
“He did not understand German.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
Children do not usually generalize; but Eva was an uncommonly mature child, and the things that she had witnessed of the evils of the system under which they were living had fallen, one by one, into the depths of her thoughtful, pondering heart.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I do not understand 'going anywhere,'" said Don Quixote; "explain thyself more clearly, Sancho, if thou wouldst have me give an answer to the point."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
That bravery and cruelty do not usually go together was amply demonstrated in Polavieja’s case and by the volunteers.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig
Men did not use God.
— from The Jesus of History by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
On the whole, while the world does not usually gain by war, but loses through the destruction of capital and through industrial deterioration, an individual nation may clearly gain.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl
But one does not usually go to an industrial place, large or small, in search of the picturesque.
— from Canada and the British immigrant by Emily P. (Emily Poynton) Weaver
My purpose in revealing these words is to cause all men to draw nigh unto God, the All-Glorious, the All-Praised.
— from The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh
Even the corrosion of the cork of an acid bottle caught his eye, and he wondered that the doctor did not use glass stoppers.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle
By the vicarious influence of this suffering, peace is to be acquired for mankind; and since this object is based upon the divine nature, upon God's mercy, the choice of the means also, by which alone it could be attained (for, without a violation of the divine character, sin could not remain unpunished), must be traced to the divine character.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
The best Greek linguist that now exists does not understand Greek so well as a Grecian plowman did, or a Grecian milkmaid; and the same for the Latin, compared with a plowman or a milkmaid of the Romans; and with respect to pronunciation and idiom, not so well as the cows that she milked.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
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