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he provoked king Ptolemy
This Onias was one of a little soul, and a great lover of money; and for that reason, because he did not pay that tax of twenty talents of silver, which his forefathers paid to these things out of their own estates, he provoked king Ptolemy Euergetes to anger, who was the father of Philopater.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

ho pheugôn kai palin
[Greek: Anêr ho pheugôn kai palin machêsetai]—The man who runs away will fight again.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

have patricians knights plebeians
In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

haimatopoiêtikê prosagoreuomenê kai pasa
haimatopoiêtikê prosagoreuomenê kai pasa d' allê dynamis en
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

helkein phainetai kai panti
Pan gar ek pantos helkein phainetai kai panti metadidonai kai mia tis einai syrrhoia kai sympnoia pantôn, kathaper kai touth' ho theiotatos Hippokratês eipen.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

He probably knew Persian
He probably knew Persian well, his knowledge of English was quite fair, but in neither of these directions lay his ambition.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

herabgesetzter Preis knockdown price
Vergleichsurkunde deed of arrangement außergerichtlicher Vergleich private settlement außergewöhnlich extraordinary außergewöhnliche Abschreibung extraordinary depreciation außergewöhnliche Aufwendungen extraordinary expenditure außergewöhnliche Aufwendungen extraordinary expenses außergewöhnliche Umstände extraordinary circumstances außergewöhnliche Zeit abnormal time außerhalb der Arbeitszeit off-time außerhalb der Saison off season außerhalb der Saison off-season äußerlich external äußerliches Erscheinungsbild appearance außerordentliche Erträge extraordinary income außerordentliche Geschäftskosten non-operating expenses außerordentliche Hauptversammlung extraordinary general meeting äußerst gedrückter Markt demoralized market äußerst herabgesetzter Preis knockdown price außerstande unable außerstande diesen Ansturm zu bewältigen we are unable to cope with this rush außerstande ist die
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

h poets k policemen
= long-haired; e = loving cold mutton; h = poets; k = policemen on this beat; l = supping with our cook pg089
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

his personal Kula partner
Then there is the local resident, not his personal Kula partner, with whom he carries on gimwali .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

high priest knows precisely
No one here but the high- priest knows precisely who they are, for if Eulaeus were to learn the truth he would send them after their parents as surely as my name is Serapion."
— from The Sisters — Volume 1 by Georg Ebers

his pleasure knowing purpose
He grunted his pleasure, knowing purpose now.
— from The Beginning by Henry Hasse

his prime keen physically
Up and down this breadth by Beacon street, between these same old elms, I walk'd for two hours, of a bright sharp February mid-day twenty-one years ago, with Emerson, then in his prime, keen, physically and morally magnetic, arm'd at every point, and when he chose, wielding the emotional just as well as the intellectual.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

had professed knowledge Pg
Tharefra hie departed to Dundy, whare, with great admiratioun of all that heard him, he tawght the Epistill to the Romanes, till that, by procurement of the Cardinall, Robert Myll, then one of the principall men in Dundye, and a man that of old had professed knowledge, [Pg 126] and for the same had sufferred trublc, gave, in the Quenis and Governouris name, inhibitioun to the said Maister George, that he should truble thare toune no more; for thei wold not suffer it.
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox

Hope President King Peace
Along with Dr. DuBois, some of the other internationally known persons who attended that first Congress were Boisneuf, Deputy from Guadaloupe; Captain Boutte; Canadace, French Deputy from Guadaloupe; Mme Chapoteau; Mrs. Helen M. Curtis; Diagne, French Deputy from Senegal; Grossilliere, Deputy from Martinique; Mrs. Ida Gibbs Hunt; Mrs. Addie W. Hunton; Dr. John Hope; President King, Peace Delegate from Liberia; B. F. Seldon and Roscoe C. Simmons.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

his philosophical knowledge preparing
Marx then gave up altogether the study of jurisprudence, and worked all the more assiduously at the perfecting of his philosophical knowledge, preparing himself for his degree examination in order—at the instigation of Bruno Bauer—to get himself admitted as quickly as possible as lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bonn.
— from The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Max Beer

however preferred keeping patients
Parochial authorities, however, preferred keeping patients in the workhouse at an expense not exceeding two shillings a week, rather than send them to the county asylum, where the minimum charge was seven shillings a week.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

his place King Pharaoh
And to his place King Pharaoh did restore His butler, and he served him as before.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan


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