I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,— Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!—
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Abwesenheitskarte absence card Abwesenheitsrate absence rate Abwicklung des Handels trade procedure Abwicklungskosten handling costs abzahlen; tilgen; zurückzahlen pay off Abzahlung; Abstottern (Br.) never-never Abzahlungsgeschäft instalment business Abzahlungskauf; Mietkauf hire-purchase Abzahlungskredit instalment credit Abzahlungssystem instalment system Abzahlungssystem tally system Abzahlungsverkauf (Br.) sale on hire-purchase Abzahlungsvertrag; Mietkaufvertrag hire-purchase agreement Abzeichen badge abziehen deduct abziehen subtract Abzug deduction Abzug der Spesen deduction of expenses abzüglich Aufwendungen less disbursements abzüglich Auslagen less expensdes abzüglich Gebühren charges to be deducted abzüglich Gebühren less charges abzugsfähig deductible abzugsfähiger Betrag deductible amount Abzugspflicht deduction at source Achtstundentag eight-hour day Achtung; Hochschätzung esteem addieren add Addiermaschine adding machine adoptieren; festsetzen; annehmen adopt Adressbuch address book Adressbuch directory Adresse address Adressenauswahl address selection Adressenkontrolle mailing list control Adressenliste mailing list Adressenquelle address source Adressiermaschine addressing machine Adressierung addressing Advokat advocate Advokat solicitor AG public limited company Agentur; Geschäftsstelle agency Agenturgebühr agency fee Agenturgeschäft agency business aggressiv aggressive aggressive Verkaufstechnik high-pressure selling Aggressivität aggressiveness Agio; Aufgeld; Gebühr für das Geldwechseln agio Agitator agitator agitieren agitate Agrarerzeugnisse farm produce Agrarland agrarian country Agrarmarkt agricultural commodity market Agrarmarkt farm products market Agrarpolitik agrarian policy Agrarpolitik agricultural policy Agrarreform agrarian reform Agrarrevolution green revolution Agrarüberschuss farm surplus ähnlich similar ähnliche Dokumente similar documents ähnliche Fassungen similar expressions Ahnnehmlichkeiten amenities Akademiker professional classes akademische Bildung university education akklimatisieren acclimatize Akkord piecework Akkordarbeit job work Akkordarbeiter incentive operator Akkordarbeiter operator on incentive Akkordarbeiter piece worker Akkordausgleich timeworkers' bonus Akkordfestsetzung rate fixing Akkordlohn task wages Akkordsatz job rate Akkordschere rate cutting Akkordstunden hours on incentive Akkordsystem
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The maids of honour, Miss Larch Conifer and Miss Spruce Conifer, sisters of the bride, wore very becoming costumes in the same tone, a dainty motif of plume rose being worked into the pleats in a pinstripe and repeated capriciously in the jadegreen toques in the form of heron feathers of paletinted coral.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In the evening my two friends kept their appointments to the minute, and we went to my little casino at two hours after sunset.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The mist lay close and thick, and from the cottage I could not see the highroad.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Then at noon dined with my Lord Crew; and after dinner went up to Sir Thos.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Hence, when Miss La Creevy, admitted by a girl who was cleaning the house, made her way to the sitting-room, she found Mrs Nickleby and Kate in tears, and Ralph just concluding his statement of his nephew’s misdemeanours.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

My lovely Clara also was lost to me—she who last of the daughters of man, exhibited all those feminine and maiden virtues, which poets, painters, and sculptors, have in their various languages strove to express.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In the afternoon I went to Whitehall and there spoke with my Lord at his lodgings, and there being with him my Lord Chamberlain, I spoke for my old waterman Payne, to get into White’s place, who was waterman to my Lord Chamberlain, and is now to go master of the barge to my Lord to sea, and my Lord Chamberlain did promise that Payne should be entertained in White’s place with him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Marry, our play is 'The most Lamentable Comedy and most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisby.' BOTTOM.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The 2d, being a pleasant morning, Lieutenants Clerke and Edgecumbe, and the two Mr Forsters, went in a boat up the bay to search for the productions of nature; and myself, Lieutenant Pickersgill, and Mr Hodges, went to take a view of the N.W. side.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

M. le Comte, aided by Hector, was arranging for the disposal of leather wallets underneath the cushions of the carriage.
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

There is but a mild lumbar curve and no steatopygy.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

Madame la Comtesse affirms that she heard two shots fired on [287] the night of the murder, and only one of M. de Fontane's weapons has been discharged.
— from A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

But the road was, under existing rates, capable of earning dividends on a much larger capital, and this emergency was met by the issuance of consolidation certificates to the amount of $45,000,000.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

On the other hand, the straggling flowers have such long, narrow, curling petals, the threadlike filaments look so much like curling antennae and the long, thin pods stick out so awkwardly, like insects' legs, from among the flowers on the lower part of the stalk, that we find the general effect is rather weird and spidery.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

Flynn hurried away, and from the window I followed the car's course to the house, and a moment later caught a glimpse of it on its way to the gates.
— from Lady Larkspur by Meredith Nicholson

My little captain, as I call him,—he who took me out, I mean, and with whom I had that adventure of the cork soles,—has been in London too, and seeing all the lions under my escort.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields