Of the other half of the red and green, (that is of the deep dark red and willow green) about one quarter will fall within this Circle, and three quarters without, and that which falls without will be spread through about four or five times more space than that which falls within; and so in the gross be rarer, and if compared with the whole Light within it, will be about 25 times rarer than all that taken in the gross; or rather more than 30 or 40 times rarer, because the deep red in the end of the Spectrum of Colours made by a Prism is very thin and rare, and the willow green is something rarer than the orange and yellow.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton
The inhabitants of the cavern, moreover, were unlovely personages, dark, smoke-begrimed, generally deformed, with misshapen feet, and a glow of dusky redness in their eyes as if their hearts had caught fire and were blazing out of the upper windows.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
On their side the mother and daughter retired into the embrasure of a window to read eagerly the following letter: “Dear Wife,--We have now reached the moment of decision.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
The captain of my dreams Ruled in the eastern sky.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
p. 384,) mentions another dream, to which, before the event, he gave credit; of a stately tree thrown to the ground, of a small plant striking a deep root into the earth.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
There seems to be no direct reference in this expression to any definite body of truths either written or oral, but ὁ λόγος τοῦ Χριστοῦ denotes the presence of Christ in the heart, as an inward monitor: comp.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
On my departure from Lyons, I saw nothing but an agreeable future, the content I now with reason enjoyed was as great as my discontent had been at leaving Paris, notwithstanding, I had not during this journey any of those delightful reveries I then enjoyed.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Schuld discharge of a debt Begleitbrief accompanying letter begleiten accompany begleitende Werbung accessory advertising begleitet von accompanied by begleitet von Handelspapieren accompanied by commercial documents begleitet von Zahlungspapieren accompanied by financial documents Begleitpapiere accompanying documents Begleitpapiere accompanying papers Begleitschreiben covering letter Begleitschreiben covering note begrenzen; Grenze limit begrenzt haftende Teilhaberschaft limited partnership begrenzte Garantie limited guarantee begrenzte Haftung limited liability begrenzte Mittel limited means begrenzter Kredit limited credit begrenzter Markt limited market begrenzter Scheck limited cheque Begrenzung limitation Begriffsbestimmungen definitions begründen found begründen give reasons Begründer originator begründet justified begründet eine feststehende Verpflichtung constitutes a definite understanding begründet keine Verpflichtung does not constitute any undertaking begünstigen; Gunst favour Begünstigter beneficiary Begünstigter eines Kreditbriefes beneficiary of a letter of credit Begünstigungsklausel benefit clause begutachten pass an expert opinion begutachten; ein Gutachten liefern render an expert opinion begütert of considerable means Behälter; Abfallbehälter bin Behälter; Container container behandeln treat Behandlung; Bearbeitung handling behaupten assert behaupten claim behaupten maintain Behauptung assertion Behauptung; Anspruch; Forderung claim Behausung; Wohnungswesen housing beherrschendes Unternehmen controlling company behindern encumber behindern; Behinderung handicap behindert handicapped behindert; belastet encumbered Behinderter handicapped person Behinderung; Belastung encumbrance Behörde board Behörden public authorities bei Anlieferung durch den Verkäufer when tendered by the seller bei Abschluß des Kaufvertrags at the time of the contract of sale bei anziehenden Preisen; anziehenden Kursen in a rising market bei der Ausübung dieses Rechts in the exercise of such liberty bei der Beschaffung der Dokumente in obtaining the documents bei der Besorgung irgendwelcher Dokumente in ob
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
During this time, Gideon Spilett and the sailor hoisted themselves over the palisade, leaped into the enclosure, threw down the props which supported the inner door, ran into the empty house, and soon, poor Herbert was lying on Ayrton’s bed.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
‘The plague raged at Aleppo when we were there, and the Ansarey were doubly rigid in their exclusion of all strangers from their country.’
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Laurentius de Rodulphis insists that equality must be observed;[2] and Angelus de Periglis de Perusio, the first monographist on the subject, does not throw much more light on the question.
— from An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching by George Augustine Thomas O'Brien
Then Fate willed that a blissful secret in its owner's breast demanded just such a hiding-place in which to dream the strangest fantasy ever imagined by woman since Danæ rested in the embrace of Jove.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
But more than all this they are now Jacobins, and after nearly three years of preaching, the dogma of popular sovereignty has taken deep root in their empty brains.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine
If we examine it from time to time, we find it sending down rootlets into the earth, and stems and leaves upward into the air.
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton
At last it was knocked down under them, driven right into the earthen floor, and the two blackened pegs were left sticking upright over it.
— from Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story by Eleanor Stredder
The democratic poor imagined ideal possession on the part of those more prosperous than themselves, and the democratic rich imagined the extreme of unpossession on the part of those poorer than themselves; and both forgot, or [Pg 45] had never discovered, what Horace knew two thousand years ago, that the poor man was seasick in the hired skiff the same as the rich man in his private trireme.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various
You may have believed the report of my death rather inconsiderately than eagerly.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy
If the foreign body be sharp, as a piece of steel or flint is likely to be, it may be driven right into the eyeball.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler
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