Ihre Rechnung und Gefahr for your account and risk für Inkassi for collections für irgendwelche nicht gedeckten Risiken for any risks not being covered für Irrtümer for errors für jede Akzeptleistung remboursieren to reimburse for any acceptance für jede Negoziierung remboursieren to reimburse for any negotiation für jede Zahlung remboursieren to reimburse for any payment für laufende Rechnung on open account für Rechnung des auslämdischen Händlers for the foreign dealer's account für Rechnung des Bezogenen for account of the drawee für Rechnung des letzteren for the account of the latter für Rechnung des Überseehändlers for the overseas dealer's account für Rechnung von for account of für Rechnung von for the account of für Waggonladungen for wagon loading für Zahlung sorgen provide for payment
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
She blamed herself for the extent of her fears, and resolved never to think so seriously on the subject again.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
My griefs not only pain me As a lingring disease, But finding no redress, ferment and rage, Nor less then wounds immedicable 620 Ranckle, and fester, and gangrene, To black mortification.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, caustic, ironic, and cynical; Mr. Home, a model teacher, the essence of the sedate and discreet: somewhat conventional, perhaps, too strict, limited, and scrupulous, but still the pink and pattern of governess-correctness; whilst another person, Professor Paul Emanuel, to wit, never lost an opportunity of intimating his opinion that mine was rather a fiery and rash nature—adventurous, indocile, and audacious.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
I do not find what Sextus Peduceus did, in faithfully restoring the treasure that C. Plotius had committed to his sole secrecy and trust, a thing that I have often done myself, so commendable, as I should think it an execrable baseness, had we done otherwise; and I think it of good use in our days to recall the example of P. Sextilius Rufus, whom Cicero accuses to have entered upon an inheritance contrary to his conscience, not only not against law, but even by the determination of the laws themselves; and M. Crassus and Hortensius, who, by reason of their authority and power, having been called in by a stranger to share in the succession of a forged will, that so he might secure his own part, satisfied themselves with having no hand in the forgery, and refused not to make their advantage and to come in for a share: secure enough, if they could shroud themselves from accusations, witnesses, and the cognisance of the laws: “Meminerint Deum se habere testem,
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
On that occasion I had stopped some days with a Colonel Tumlin, to see some remarkable Indian mounds on the Etowah River, usually called the "Hightower:" I therefore knew that the Allatoona Pass was very strong, would be hard to force, and resolved not even to attempt it, but to turn the position, by moving from Kingston to Marietta via.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
And when a man who is wealthy and is also accused of being an enemy of the people sees this, then, my friend, as the oracle said to Croesus, ‘By pebbly Hermus’ shore he flees and rests not, and is not ashamed to be a coward 11 .’ 11 Herod.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
That part of his face which protruded under the goggles was what is generally termed “strong”; rolls of not undignified fat had collected near his chin; somewhere above was a wide thin mouth and the rough model for a Roman nose, and, below, his shoulders collapsed without a struggle into the powerful bulk of his chest and belly.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Amongst these the Marcomanians are most signal in force and renown; nay, their habitation itself they acquired by their bravery, as from thence they formerly expulsed the Boians.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus
But of woman it is always and only “a woman,” meaning simply a female, and recognizing no personal distinction: “As much pity to see a woman weep as to see a goose go barefoot.”
— from Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It has more than once been remarked by tourists that, in their peculiar fondness for a religious nomenclature, the early French settlers of Quebec must have exhausted the saintly calendar in adapting names to their public highways, places and institutions.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
Accidents by fire are rather numerous, especially in those districts where wood is used as fuel.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir
The drag was so arranged that many of the jumps could be seen from a ridge near.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey
At which Myra's charity stumbled and fell and ran no more.
— from The Helpers by Francis Lynde
She had escaped from a rather noisy wedding-party, which was feasting and clapping hands in the room below, while the bridal couple had retired and the shimadai , an emblematic group of pine and bamboo, crane and tortoise, remained for a symbolic centre of festal joy.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards
Office, 175, Chambers Street, near Greenwich." (From a recent number of the New York Herald .
— from Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural by John Netten Radcliffe
The conjunctions of deflection originate chiefly in imperative moods (as all save one , all except one ); participles used like the ablative absolute in Latin (as all saving one , all excepting one ); adverbs (as so ); prepositions (as for ); and relative neuters (as that ).
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
"Old scandals bore him, but if, by good fortune, a rich new bit comes your way, save it for our Rowley, whisper it in his ear and forget it.
— from The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II by Charles Major
A few evenings ago, in a low café in Belleville, M. NOKASHIKOFF, who left St. Petersburg lately to escape his creditors, and who conceived the happy idea of raising a little money by walking to Paris in a sack composed of the French and Russian national flags stitched together, was entertained to supper by his Gallic admirers.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 by Various
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