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genormter Artikel Standardartikel standardized
Bewegungen motion time standards genormter Artikel; Standardartikel standardized product Genossenschaft cooperative society genossenschaftlich cooperative genossenschaftlich corporate genossenschaftliche Basis cooperative basis genossenschaftliche Basis mutual basis genossenschaftliche Landwirtschaft cooperative farming genossenschaftlicher Vertrieb cooperative marketing genossenschaftliches Absatzwesen cooperative marketing genossenschaftliches
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

gastu A student spends
Ang kadakù sa aláwans sa istudiyanti mauy makaswiltu (makapaswiltu) niíni ug gastu, A student spends money freely if he gets a big allowance.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

ghastly and she seemed
She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something alarming at the other extremity of the room.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

goes about straightway seeking
For I think that Homer was very right in saying that 'When two go together, one sees before the other (Il.),' for all men who have a companion are readier in deed, word, or thought; but if a man 'Sees a thing when he is alone,' he goes about straightway seeking until he finds some one to whom he may show his discoveries, and who may confirm him in them.
— from Protagoras by Plato

get a salary said
"Now he'll get a salary," said the man.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

general and specially sorrow
Have displeasure against all thy sins in general, and specially sorrow and mourn because of thy daily transgressions.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

God and sat still
The maiden thanked God, and sat still till evening came, when the step-mother came in and marvelled to see the work completed.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

get a skeely skipper
“O whaur will I get a skeely skipper To sail this new ship o’ mine?”’
— from Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

gowns and stout shoes
Beatrice has got now warm gowns, and stout shoes, and plenty of good food.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

gravel and sedimentary strata
Thermometer, at noon, 54°; at 4 p.m., 55°; at 9, 27°. 23D MAY.—The river seemed to cut its way through rocky ranges, and to receive many tributaries; had, in some places, bergs, and margins of ancient gravel and sedimentary strata; in others, rocky escarps of great height, presented sections of rocks through which it passed.
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

gave a soft sigh
Andrew hugged her up close and gave a soft sigh.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

glare And so soft
"But first as he flew, I forgot to say, That he hover'd a moment upon his way To look upon Leipsic plain; And so sweet to his eye was its sulphury glare, And so soft to his ear was the cry of despair, That he perch'd on a mountain of slain; And he gazed with delight from its growing height; Not often on earth had he seen such a sight, Nor his work done half as well:
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

gave Athalie smelling salts
Someone gave Athalie smelling salts; she was taken into the fresh air; but she was careful not to recover consciousness.
— from The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) by Paul de Kock

garrison and stakes set
My brother had certain trees blazed on the brush and timbered side of the garrison, and stakes set with little flags on them on the prairie side, which took in about eight or ten acres of ground.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

grey and seemed surcharged
The sky was of a dark leaden grey, and seemed surcharged with rain and storm.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir


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