Gebühren im voraus bezahlt fees paid in advance Gebühren sind einzuziehen charges to be collected Gebührenabrechnung account of charges Gebührenaufstellung table of charges Gebührenermäßigung reduction of fees gebührenfrei free of charge gebührenfreie Autobahn freeway gebührenfreier Telefonanruf freephone Gebührenordnung scale of charges and fees Gebührenrechnung bill of costs Gebührenverzeichnis table of costs Gebührenverzeichnis tariff of fees gebundener Preis controlled price gebundener Preis maintained price gebundener Verkauf tie-on sale gebundenes Kapital fixed capital Geburtenrate birth rate Geburtenüberschuß excess of births over deaths Geburtsdatum date of birth Geburtsjahr year of birth Geburtsort place of birth Geburtsschein birth certificate Geburtstag birthday Gedächtnisstütze aid to memory gedämpftes Licht dim light
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
Gargasus, son of Cypselus. See Gorgus.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo
F - To full length Breeches M - All around at waist under coat Leggings G - Size of calf H - Size of instep {369} Hat Size of hat Size of linen collar worn Answer following questions plainly: Age? Height? Weight? BOOKS FOR REFERENCE This list of reference books has been prepared for the use of scouts, to supplement information given in the handbook prepared for their use.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
This subject of servants was a standing grievance, and I could not wonder much at it; for if gentlemen were scarce, and almost unheard of in the “genteel society” of Cranford, they or their counterparts—handsome young men—abounded in the lower classes.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
He opened with artillery, but General Ewing soon got some of Captain Richardson's guns up that steep hill and gave back artillery, and the enemy's skirmishers made one or two ineffectual dashes at General Lightburn, who had swept round and got a farther hill, which was the real continuation of the ridge.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
And yet, natheles, men say they shall go out in the time of anti-Christ, and that they shall make great slaughter of Christian men.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
RIGHT THERETO: the ideal of a spirit who plays naively (that is to say involuntarily and from overflowing abundance and power) with everything that has hitherto been called holy, good, intangible, or divine; to whom the loftiest conception which the people have reasonably made their measure of value, would already practically imply danger, ruin, abasement, or at least relaxation, blindness, or temporary self-forgetfulness; the ideal of a humanly superhuman welfare and benevolence, which will often enough appear INHUMAN, for example, when put alongside of all past seriousness on earth, and alongside of all past solemnities in bearing, word, tone, look, morality, and pursuit, as their truest involuntary parody—and WITH which, nevertheless, perhaps THE GREAT SERIOUSNESS only commences, when the proper interrogative mark is set up, the fate of the soul changes, the hour-hand moves, and tragedy begins...”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"So far, so good," say our critics, "but you will have Rothschilds coming in from the outside.
— from The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
Their journey was enlivened by many a good story of camp and field and incidentally the officers evinced a strong curiosity in the organization of the Boy Scouts about which they asked many questions.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Ralph Victor
Alcoholic extract of aconite, 30 gr.; sulphuret of calcium, 16 gr.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson
It is true there were bad persons who obtained commodities and services on credit for which they never intended to pay; careless and extravagant persons who bought more than they were able to pay for; and foolish and oversanguine people who, after having by labor and economy accumulated a good store of commodities, exchanged them for shares in enterprises which never could pay.
— from Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community by David Ames Wells
You, Sir Count, will, I think, gladly see our captive placed in safety."
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott
Feversham meanwhile was seeking—with no great success—to engage Mr. Wilding in talk of Monmouth, against whom Feversham harboured in addition to his political enmity a very deadly personal hatred; for Feversham had been a suitor to the hand of the Lady Henrietta Wentworth, the woman for whom Monmouth—worthy son of his father—had practically abandoned his own wife; the woman with whom he had run off, to the great scandal of court and nation.
— from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini
"Why, the only thing about it is that it's haunted there's a ghost there," and as he spoke the storekeeper slipped a generous slice of cheese on a cracker and munched it.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake; Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope
A green sheet or cloth is spread over the tomb and a lamp is kept burning by it, while offerings of incense and flowers are made.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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