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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites, or sub-parasites.—And yet, I mean not those that have your bare town-art, To know who's fit to feed them; have no house, No family, no care, and therefore mould Tales for men's ears, to bait that sense; or get Kitchen-invention, and some stale receipts To please the belly, and the groin; nor those, With their court dog-tricks, that can fawn and fleer, Make their revenue out of legs and faces, Echo my lord, and lick away a moth:
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

His kindness almost surprised our young friend, who wondered why he should take so much trouble for her; and she was oppressed at last with the accumulation of beauty and knowledge to which she found herself introduced.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

It's much easier to pay ten roubles every month than fifty for five!"
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Together we made up between us more than four hundred pounds.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In spite of a very great rise in German prices, they probably do not yet average much more than five times their former level, so far as staple commodities are concerned; and it is impossible that they should rise further except with a simultaneous and not less violent adjustment of the level of money wages.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

At once set his teeth the hard cordage to grind, And in less than two minutes the friend was reclaimed
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

I believed that nothing helps you so much to feel as the taking of what share may, from the nature of the thing, be possible to you; because, for one reason, in order to feel, it is necessary that the mind should rest upon the matter, whatever it is.
— from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald

But at length Columbus secured enough money to fit out a little fleet.
— from A Short History of the United States for School Use by Edward Channing

Manifestly the first should precede the second, and if this sequence is not conscientiously followed it will result in confusion.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

you don't want me to find out who killed your uncle!"
— from A Chain of Evidence by Carolyn Wells

As I pointed out, the tremendous pressures that were put on me those first few days because my name was mentioned, is what I refer to.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The thought of my excellent mother restrained me from many an indiscretion, as also the teaching and the example of the wisest and best of men (the father).
— from Sleep Walking and Moon Walking: A Medico-Literary Study by J. Sadger

[Back to Main Text] Footnote 40: The managers of the New York Public Library have found a way, and have maintained twenty-seven home libraries during the past year (1901): little cases of from fifteen to forty books entrusted to the care of some family in the tenement.
— from The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

[14] Methodist Times , Feb. 8, 1900.
— from From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa by William E. Sellers

The young man gave directions—indeed he appeared to know as well what to do as a surgeon; and one fact impressed itself upon our hero's mind: the fact that the wounded man was prepared to take great chances for his life without the aid of a physician, and this circumstance in itself was very suspicious, and, coupled with facts known to our hero, only confirmed the worst suspicious that had arisen in his mind.
— from Oscar the Detective; Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective by Old Sleuth

A. Mac-Glashan made the front of his shop like a wharf with piles of empty packing-cases to indicate a-prosperous foreign and colonial trade.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro