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Jubilee gas roaster
389 Complete gas coffee-plant installation 390 Burns Jubilee gas roaster 391 Burns coal roaster 392 Open perforated cylinder with flexible back head 392
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

J G Rice
Among other settlers of 1850, not named above, I may name: Nils Thronson, who had come from Valders in 1848, settling in Dane County, Wisconsin he located in Glenwood Township in the summer of 1850; Christopher A. Estrem from Vang Parish, who had immigrated to Chicago in 1848; he came to Winneshiek County and located in Frankville Township as one of the very first Norwegians there; Engebret Haugen, who had immigrated in 1842, locating near Beloit, Wisconsin; the family settled near Decorah in 1850, purchasing the old Indian Trading Post then owned by J. G. Rice.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

junk goods Ramschladen
Rahmenvertrag skeleton agreement Rahmenvorschrift covering law Ramsch; Altwaren junk goods Ramschladen junk shop Ramschmarkt; Tremplermarkt; Trödelmarkt junk market Randmarkt fringe market Rang rank Rang einer Hypothek rank of a mortgage Rang; Prioritätenfolge order of priority Rangfolge rank order Rangreihenmethode ranking method rar scarce Rassendiskriminierung racial discrimination Rat advice Rat counsel Rat suchen seek advice Rategeber adviser raten; beraten advise Ratenzahlung payment by instalments Ratgeber advisor ratifizieren ratify Ratifizierung ratification Ration ration rationalisieren rationalize Rationalisierung rationalization Rationalisierung;
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

jungle gods retire
At its conclusion, the jungle gods retire to the jungle until the next year.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

joy gladness rejoicing
Ro. 15.4, 5. 2 Co. 1.3–7; cheering and supporting influence, Ac. 9.31; joy, gladness, rejoicing, 2 Co. 7.13; cheer, joy, enjoyment, Lu. 6.24.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

just gently remind
‘But you can soon break her of it, Miss Grey,’ said she: ‘it is only a habit; and if you will just gently remind her every time she does so, I am sure she will soon lay it aside.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

John Gymnast Ryzotomus
Then was Carpalin instantly sent away, and Pantagruel, at the same time attended by his domestics, Panurge, Epistemon, Ponocrates, Friar John, Gymnast, Ryzotomus, and others, marched forward on the high road to Mirelingues.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Jews generously restored
But, on his father's death, his two brothers, although they themselves remained Jews, generously restored to their Christian brother his share of their father's property.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Jake Green Ruby
Jake Green Interview with Jake Green — Ruby Pickens Tartt, Livingston, Alabama A CONJU' WHAT DIDN' WUK "Yessum, dem niggers sho' was scared when ole Buck showed up in de fiel'," Jake Green, former slave, laughed with a vigor that denied his eighty-five years as he described "a conju' what didn' wuk."
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Jimmy Grayson refusing
Even if we are beaten out of our boots, I've got that defiance to remember, and the picture of Jimmy Grayson refusing either to be browbeaten or cajoled, even though the price was the Presidency."
— from The Candidate: A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Judge George Rhinehard
He also found time to begin the study of law, and in this he was assisted by Judge George Rhinehard, a jurist of local repute.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

Jacobi George Reid
It is said sometimes—and there is some truth in the remark—that Canadian art hitherto has been imitative rather than creative; but while we have pictures like those of L. R. O'Brien, W. Brymner, F. A. Verner, O. R. Jacobi, George Reid, F. M. Bell-Smith, Homer Watson, W. Raphael, Robert Harris, C. M. Manly, J. W. L. Forster, A. D. Patterson, Miss Bell, Miss Muntz, J. Pinhey, J. C. Forbes, Paul Peel—a young man of great promise too soon cut off—and of other excellent painters, [64]
— from Our Intellectual Strength and Weakness A Short Historical and Critical Review of Literature, Art and Education in Canada by John George Bourinot

just go round
You must just go round the place with him, and see if there is anything you would like to see altered.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson

jewelled gloves reaching
Henry II. wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove set with twelve rubies and fifty-two great pearls.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

just getting ready
"I was just getting ready to go to you!"
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Jim glancing round
Jim, glancing round the mob, which surrounded the palaver, saw that every other man carried a rifle, and had hitched across his naked shoulders a canvas cartridge-belt.
— from Bosambo of the River by Edgar Wallace

Judge Garvey rested
Judge Garvey rested his folded arms upon the pile of books stacked at the rear of the table, and leaned over them in a friendly way.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various


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