Pursuit — N. pursuit; pursuing &c. v.; prosecution; pursuance; enterprise &c. (undertaking) 676; business &c. 625; adventure &c. (essay) 675; quest &c. (search) 461; scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt. — from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
presumption presumptive evidence circumstantial
— N. probability, likelihood; credibleness[obs3]; likeliness &c. adj.; vraisemblance[Fr], verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence; credibility. — from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Einzelfall individual case Einzelfertigung jobbing production Einzelfertigung jobbing work Einzelfirma sole proprietorship Einzelhandel retail Einzelhandel retail trade Einzelhandelsabgabepreis retail selling price Einzelhandelsgeschäft retail outlet Einzelhandelsgeschäft retail shop Einzelhandelsgeschäft (US) retail store Einzelhandelskette retail store chain Einzelhandelskostenindex index of retail prices Einzelhandelskunde retail customer Einzelhandelspreisindex retail price index Einzelhandelsrabatt retail discount Einzelhandelsspanne retail margin Einzelhandelsumsatz retail sales Einzelhandelsumsatz retail turnover Einzelhandelsunternehmen retail business Einzelhandelsunternehmen retail establishment Einzelhändler retail dealer Einzelhändler retailer Einzelheit detail Einzelheiten particulars Einzelkaufmann sole prprietor Einzelkosten individual costs Einzellohnverhandlung individual bargaining einzeln individual einzeln single einzeln aufführen specify einzeln oder insgesamt any or all of which einzelner Verbraucher individual consumer Einzelposten single item Einzelspalte single column Einzelstück; Einzelposten individual item Einzelstückfertigung; Einzelfertigung piece production Einzelteil component Einzelverträge individual contracts Einzelzeit subtracted time Einzelzeitmessung flyback timing Einzelzeitverfahren flyback timing method Einzelzeitverfahren snap-back timing method Einziehung von Außenständen collection of outstanding debts Einziehung von Forderungen collection of debts Einziehung von Schulden collection of debts einzige Beschwerde sole complaint einziger Absatzweg exclusive outlet Einzug eines Schecks collection of a cheque Einzug von Außenständen collection of outstanding amounts Einzugskosten encashment charges einzuschiebendes Arbeitselement intermittent element Eisenbahn railway Eisenbahnbehörde railway authority Eisenbahnfahrkarte railway ticket Eisenbahngesellschaft railroad company Eisenbahnknotenpunkt railway junction Eisenbahnnetz network of railroads Eisenbahnnetz railroad network Eisenbahnnetz railway network Eisenbahntransport rail transport Eisenbahnunglück railway disaster — from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
professional people evidently connected
In company with the dear Doctor were two professional people, evidently connected with the law, and they were all three standing at the table: the darling Doctor pen in hand. — from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Pusiéronse, pues, en cuclillas los circunstantes, inclusos 20 los polizontes y el mismo Concejal, [74-4] y comenzaron a ayudarle al tío Buscabeatas en aquella singular comprobación, diciendo todos a un mismo tiempo con pueril regocijo: —¡Nada! — from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
No other foundation or support than public abuse No physic that has not something hurtful in it Noble and rich, where examples of virtue are rarely lodged Obstinacy is the sister of constancy Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better Ordinances it (Medicine)foists upon us Passion has a more absolute command over us than reason Pay very strict usury who did not in due time pay the principal People are willing to be gulled in what they desire Physician's "help", which is very often an obstacle Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick Physicians fear men should at any time escape their authority Physicians were the only men who might lie at pleasure Physicians: earth covers their failures Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians Pure cowardice that makes our belief so pliable Recommendation of strangeness, rarity, and dear purchase Send us to the better air of some other country Should first have mended their breeches Smile upon us whilst we are alive So austere and very wise countenance and carriage :of physicians So much are men enslaved to their miserable being Solon said "that eating was physic against the malady hunger Strangely suspect all this merchandise: medical care Studies, to teach me to do, and not to write Such a recipe as they will not take themselves That he could neither read nor swim The Babylonians carried their sick into the public square — from Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
punished prince Edward commeth
Hardicnute is sent for into England to be made king; alteration in the state of Norwaie and Denmarke by the death of king Cnute, Hardicnute is crowned, he sendeth for his mother queene Emma, Normandie ruled by the French king, Hardicnute reuengeth his mothers exile upon the dead bodie of his stepbrother Harold, queene Emma and erle Goodwine haue the gouernment of things in their hands, Hardicnute leuieth a sore tribute upon his subiects; contempt of officers & deniall of a prince his tribute sharpelie punished; prince Edward commeth into England; the bishop of Worcester accused and put from his see for being accessarie to the murthering of Alfred, his restitution procured by contribution; Earle Goodwine being accused for the same trespasse excuseth himselfe, and iustifieth his cause by swearing, but speciallie by presenting the king with an inestimable gift; the cause why Goodwine purposed Alfreds death; the English peoples care about the succession to the crowne, moonke Brightwalds dreame and vision touching that matter; Hardicnute poisoned at a bridall, his conditions, speciallie his hospitalitie, of him the Englishmen learned to eate and drinke immoderatlie, the necessitie of sobrietie, the end of the Danish regiment in this land, and when they began first to inuade the English coasts. — from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8)
The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed
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