Ware clause about condition of the goods Klausel betreffend die Qualität clause about the quality Klausel betreffend die Quantität clause about the quantity Klausel betreffend die Vertragsstrafe penalty clause Klausel die sofortige Zahlung fordert acceleration clause Klauseln welche ablehnen clauses which disclaim Klauseln; Punkte; Artikel; Paragraphen articles Klebeband adhesive tape Kleidergeld clothing allowance Kleidergeld dress alowance klein petty Kleinanzeige classified advertisement Kleinanzeige small ad Kleinanzeige small advertisement
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

For a child knows as certainly before it can speak the difference between the ideas of sweet and bitter (i.e. that sweet is not bitter), as it knows afterwards (when it comes to speak) that wormwood and sugarplums are not the same thing.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

His first ailment, called kaynagola , comprises pains in the body, such as (speaking from our point of view) would be brought about by rheumatism, general cold, influenza, or any incipient disease.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Tanis apparently enjoyed the companionship of the dancing darlings; she bridled to their bland flirtation and casually kissed them at the end of each dance.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

She felt a curious kind of pleasure in lingering among these houses of the dead, and read the inscriptions on the tombs of the good people (a great number of good people were buried there), passing on from one to another with increasing interest.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I am sure,’ with many other short speeches of the same familiar and confiding kind, purporting to have been addressed by the single gentleman to himself, and to form the staple of their ordinary discourse, neither Mr Brass nor Miss Sally for a moment questioned the extent of his influence, but accorded to him their fullest and most unqualified belief.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

That cannot be, if the proverb hold; for 'A crafty knave needs no broker.' Brai.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Not only do we try to find a certain kind of explanation as the cause, but those kinds of explanations are selected and preferred which dissipate most rapidly the sensation of strangeness, novelty and unfamiliarity,—in fact the most ordinary explanations.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Of course it must suit her, as she said; for all Cranford knew that she had her sister’s bedroom at liberty; but I am sure she wished the Major had stopped in India and forgotten his cousins out and out.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

But such statements, though they make me know truths about the colour, do not make me know the colour itself any better than I did before so far as concerns knowledge of the colour itself, as opposed to knowledge of truths about it, I know the colour perfectly and completely when I see it, and no further knowledge of it itself is even theoretically possible.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

There was no shame in it so far as Chatty knew.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

There is only one means of safety for all classes— Keep away from the gaming table altogether .
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

"You know I am always glad to see you, Roy," she said, giving him both her hands and putting up her red lips for a cousinly kiss.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

This was wholly different from the custom then; for ancient conquerors killed or made slaves of those whom they defeated in battle.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

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— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

There is only one means of safety for all classes— Keep away from the gaming table altogether.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

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— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Two forms of instruments were at length developed, composed of a wire-strung psaltery, played from a chromatic keyboard like that of the organ.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

Then the lady told him the secret, and demanded her reward, which was that the king should find some fair and courtly knight to be her husband.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Now, since I shall have much to tell of this well-beloved kinsman and of his kith and kin, I will here take leave to make mention that all the Stromers were descended from a certain knight, Conrad von Reichenbach, who erewhile had come from his castle of Kammerstein, hard by Schwabach, as far forth as Nuremberg.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers