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implements Reinschrift clean copy
regress Regress nehmen recourse Regression; Rückgang regression regressiv regressive regresspflichtig liable to recourse regresspflichtig responsible for recourse regulär regular regulierbar adjustable Regulierung eines Schadens settlement of a claim Regulierung; Verordnung; Anordnung regulation rehabilitierter Konkursschuldner discharged bankrupt Reibung friction reich affluent reichen; Reichweite reach reichlich abundant reichlich affluent reichlich ample reichliche Mittel ample means reichliche Sicherheit ample security Reichtum affluence Reichweite der Hände; Griffbereich reaching area of the hands Reichweite in Meilen mileage reif mature Reihe von Regeln set of rules Reihe; Serie serial rein; ohne Einschränkung clean reine Bearbeitungszeit net process time reine Schulden net liabilities Reinentwurf; Reinschrift fair copy reines Dokument clean document reines Glücksspiel game of pure chance reines Konnossement clean bill of lading reines Monopol absolute monopoly reines Monopol perfect monopoly reines Verladedokument clean shipping document Reingewinn clear profit Reinigungslappen cleaning cloth Reinigungswerkzeug cleaning implements Reinschrift clean copy Reinvermögen net assets Reise voyage Reise; Tour tour Reiseagentur travel agency Reisebeilage travel supplement Reisebüro tourist office Reiseführer travel guide Reisehandbuch; Reiseführer; Ratgeber guidebook Reisekostenabrechnung travel expense report Reisekostenerstattung compensation for travelling Reisekreditbrief circular letter of credit Reisekreditbrief circular note Reisekreditbrief traveller's letter of credit Reisen travelling reisen; Reise travel Reisender traveller Reisender travelling salesman Reisepass passport Reisepass; Passierschein pass Reiseplan itinerary Reisescheck traveller's cheque Reisespesen travelling expenses Reisevermittlung travel agency Reißverschluss zip Reißzwecke tack Reizartikel; Lockartikel teaser reizen appeal Reklame publicity Reklamefeldzug propaganda campaign Rekordjahr record year Rekordumsatz record sales rekrutieren; Rekrut;
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

I raly cannot contain
I raly cannot contain myself,’ said Mrs. Cluppins, ‘when I think of such perjury.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Inscripti rutilum coelato Consule
Note 83 ( return ) [ Immanesque... dentes Qui secti ferro in tabulas auroque micantes, Inscripti rutilum coelato Consule nomen Per proceres et vulgus eant.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

important ruling concerning coffee
Another important ruling, concerning coffee buyers and sellers, prohibits the importation of green coffees coated with lead chromate, Prussian blue, and other substances, to give the beans a more stylish appearance than they have normally.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

in reduce compress c
V. be short &c. adj.; render short &c. adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress &c. (contract) 195; epitomize &c. 596. retrench, cut short, obtruncate[obs3]; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten[in drawing].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

it requires constant care
But it is a passion that responds very quickly to cultivation, and it requires constant care and education, just as the faculty for music or art does, or it will atrophy.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I reckon Court Calendars
In this catalogue of books which are no books—biblia a-biblia —I reckon Court Calendars, Directories, Pocket Books, Draught Boards bound and lettered at the back, Scientific Treatises, Almanacks, Statutes at Large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which "no gentleman's library should be without:" the Histories of Flavins Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

in return Contents Contents
return Footnote 4: that return Footnote 5: in return Contents Contents p.7 No. 199 Thursday, October 18, 1711 Steele Scribere jussit amor.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

inextension restriction coarctation confinement
ANT: Limitation, inextension, restriction, coarctation, confinement, proximity, scantiness, contiguity, uninterruptedness, continuity.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

indignantly Really Crofts CROFTS
[rising indignantly] Really, Crofts—! CROFTS.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

It represents Christ crucified
It represents Christ crucified between two thieves; Longinus, the Roman officer, mounted on a grey horse, is piercing the Savior's side with a lance; the penitent thief, a grey-haired man, is invoking the Savior for the last time.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

Imperial rescript condemning Constantius
By bribery, and calumnious stories conveyed to the Court at Constantinople, he procured an Imperial rescript condemning Constantius to be banished to one of the oases as a disturber of the people.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

is regular Chandler cor
"As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE end in ED, it is regular."— Chandler cor.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

In Roman Catholic countries
In Roman Catholic countries Sunday was all over at twelve o'clock, and for the rest of the day the Roman Catholics could do just what they pleased; they danced and went to theatres and played games, as if Sunday was one of their own days and not God's day.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

in Roman Catholic countries
The priest is considered, in Roman Catholic countries, as the representative of Jesus Christ, the only depositary of true doctrine, the only dispenser of celestial favours, the agent of the supreme authority of the Pope,—in a word, the infallible oracle, to whose teachings the faith cannot be opposed, and whose mandates must not be resisted under penalty of incurring a mortal sin.
— from Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

in rugged case confined
But not the less for that, to me reply, What art thou, who, in rugged case confined, Dost live and speak?
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

in real capital credit
Ninety-two banks in England shared this fate in a single season of bank mortality; five hundred more could be enumerated in other seasons, many of them superior in real capital, credit, and circulation, to our famous chartered banks, most of which are banks of moonshine, built upon each other's paper; and the whole ready to fly sky-high the moment any one of the concern becomes sufficiently inflated to burst.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

into reality considered closely
While I was in Birmingham I looked a little into reality, considered closely and at their source the causes of the present troubles of this country.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

is rather cheap cynicism
That sort of thing is rather cheap cynicism.
— from Breaking into the movies by Anita Loos

in Rome could count
The palaces of the wealthy in Rome could count slaves by hundreds; on the larger plantations they were numbered by thousands.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak


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