Admitting these two points of view : that no purpose can be assigned to Becoming, and that no great entity rules behind all Becoming, in which the individual may completely lose himself as in an element of superior value; there still remains the subterfuge which would consist
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
As the rocks were thrust northeastward and upward they made a greatly elevated region, but did not, however, at any time project into the air, as indicated in section D, because as the rocky mass was being uplifted, streams were wearing it away and cutting deep canyons in its upland portion.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
She fetched crockery—new, and plenty of it; new wooden goblets and other table furniture; and beer, fish, chicken, a goose, eggs, roast beef, roast mutton, a ham, a small roast pig, and a wealth of genuine white wheaten bread.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Already the last pearls of the stars had grown dim and been extinguished in the depths of the sky, and the centre of the sky's brow was growing pale; its right temple, reposing on a pillow of shadow, was still swarthy, but its left grew ever rosier; but farther off the horizon line parted like a broad eyelid, and in the centre one could see the white of an eye, one could see the iris and the pupil—now a ray darted forth and circled [pg 284] and shimmered over the rounded heavens, and hung in the white cloud like a golden arrow.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz
Ware a defective condition of the goods ein materieller Vorteil material advantage ein Mittel zur a means of ein Möbelstück piece of furniture ein Muster entnehmen to retain a sample ein namentlich genannter Frachtführer a named carrier ein namentlich genanntes Schiff a named vessel ein neues Verfahren anwenden apply a new technique ein Pfand einlösen redeem a pledge ein Plakat ankleben to stick a bill ein Produkt auf den Markt bringen launch a product ein Projekt aufgeben abandon a project ein Rat piece of advice ein realisierbares Vorhaben practicable scheme ein Recht erwerben to acquire a right ein reiches Angebot an Ware a wide variety of goods ein reines begebbares Konnossement a clean negotiable B/L ein reines in ein unreines Konnossement a clean into an unclean B/L ein reines Transportdokument a clean transport document ein Risiko auf
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
Now I think what I’ve got to say is good enough reason; but reason or not, I’ll say it, and I’ll stick to it.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?” (I had green eyes, reader; but you must excuse the mistake: for him they were new-dyed, I suppose.)
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
Thou exceptest, these were chief men, divine spirits, Deo cari , beloved of God, especially respected; but I am a contemptible and forlorn wretch, forsaken of God, and left to the merciless fury of evil spirits.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Sae we gaed on, an' the minister gied every ragged bairn that was on the road that day a ride, till the auld machine was as thrang as it could stick, like a merry-go-roon' at the fair.
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
For a while the clear radiance of the stars lighted the looming mountains; but when wastes of naked rock gave place to ragged woods, lakes and pits of darkness spread suddenly before her; every gully, every ravine brimmed level with treacherous shadows, masking the sheer fall of rock plunging downward into fathomless depths.
— from Special Messenger by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Both of these difficulties are to a great extent removed by the facts of the development of these parts in Elasmobranchii.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour
Within thy cyte ressauys till herbry, And to famyliar frendschip and ally; 30 [Pg 59] To quyte the, rendring ganand thankis rycht, That lyis nocht, Dido, intill our mycht, Nor all the laif of the Troian menȝe, Throw out this warld skatterit quhar euer thai be: Bot the hie goddis, gif ony deite takis tent 5 To thame at petuus beyn and pacient, For justice eik gif euer reward beis get, And rychtwys myndis ramembrit and nocht forȝet.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil
Two of his lines in the Poem on ‘Appleton House,’ with its Gardens, Grounds, etc., run: But most the Hewel’s wonders are, Who here has the Holtseltster’s care.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2 by Edward FitzGerald
It consisted in getting everything ready by the time the next big English steamer was to start, and not to say a word to her about it, but to make sure that she that day should have an excuse for going out early and remaining out a long time, and also arrange for Marie to be at liberty.
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Now and again on a rainy day Richard Maule would drag his feeble limbs along the warm moist stone pavement for the little gentle exercise recommended by his old friend and neighbour, Dr. Mannet.
— from Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes
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