By one of these persons, in the exultation of a supposed cure, it was proclaimed far and wide, by dint of handbills and little pamphlets on dingy paper, that a distinguished gentleman, Roderick Elliston, Esq., had been relieved of a SNAKE in his stomach!
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
forðweard (e 2 ) I. inclined forward : advanced, progressing, growing, ready ; enduring, everlasting, continual : future .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
sich bewerben make an application sich beziehen auf refer to sich daraus ergebende Streitigkeit subsequent dispute sich dauernd wiederholend continual sich der Dienste einer anderen Bank bedient uses the services of another bank sich der Fertigstellung nähern nearing the completion sich der Mehrheit anschließen join the majority sich einem Kartell anschließen join a cartel sich eines guten Rufes erfreuen enjoy a good reputation sich einigen to come to an understanding sich einigen to come to terms sich einigen; einen Vergleich schließen to come to a mutual agreement sich einigen; übereinkommen come to an agreement sich einkaufen buy into sich einmischen interfere sich entschädigen recoup sich entschuldigen apologize sich ereignen occur sich ergänzende Lebensmittel complementary food sich ergebend aus ihrer Nichtbefolgung arising from their failing sich erholen recover sich erneuernder Kredit revolving credit sich etablieren establish sich etablieren establish oneself sich frei nehmen take a day off sich für Auslagen sofort zu erholen promptly to recover outlays sich gegenseitig ergänzend; komplimentär complimentary sich gut verkaufen sell well sich hieraus ergebende Kosten costs resulting from this sich hieraus ergebende Verzögerungen delays resulting from this sich
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say to his daughter point-blank:— “I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him to me.” Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute diagnosis: “My father never cared very much for my sister after her folly.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Author of "Along Alaska's Great River," etc., etc.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen
As a general rule, every executive function, whether superior or subordinate, should be the appointed duty of some given individual.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
Pero la goma recogida en esos cauchales o hulares naturales
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Gabriel returned every evening to the upper cloister, wearied out with walking the length and breadth of the Cathedral.
— from The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
He might have grown as old as the Duke of Alva, or Prince Waldeck, in the Low Countries, and yet have got reputation enough every year for any reasonable man: for the command of general in Flanders hath been ever looked upon as a provision for life.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir
Grosseteste, Robert: Epistolae , ed.
— from Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
Determined to use every effort to deceive him, lest he should betray to her parents the real cause of her sufferings, Emmeline generally rallied every effort and rattled on with him, as from a child she had been accustomed, therefore it was no wonder the worthy surgeon was deceived; and often, very often, did the poor girl wish she could deceive herself as easily.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar
Ferguson's share of the entailed estates is about 5,000 £ gross rental; everything else goes to the B. J.'s.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Henry Reeve
The general religious energy embodies itself in a thousand forms; but while there is before the church a vast field to which the activities of all are scarcely equal, there is, also, 'a fair field and no favor,'—a field in which all have the same advantages, and in which each is sure to find rewards proportionate to its wisdom and its zeal.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
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