111 Hawe-thorne , sb. hawthorn, PP, Prompt.; haȝþorn , MD.—ONorth. hagaþorn (Mat.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
im Umgang mit Dokumenten documentary practices praxisbezogen related to practice Präzedenz; Präzedenzfall precedent Präzedenzfall creative precedent Präzedenzfall original precedent Präzedenzfall test case Präzision precision Preis price Preis prize Preis am Ort price on the local market Preis auf dem freien Markt price on the free market Preis auf dem Weltmarkt price on the world market Preis außerhalb der Saison off-season price Preis für Mengenabnahme quantity price Preis herabsetzen mark down Preis heraufsetzen mark up Preis je
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
And if the setting up and putting down of kings and governments is God’s peculiar prerogative, he most certainly will not be robbed thereof by us; wherefore, the principle itself leads you to approve of every thing, which ever happened, or may happen to kings as being his work.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine
So at noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I met Creed, who dined with me, and after dinner mightily importuned by Captain Hicks, who came to tell my wife the names and story of all the shells, which was a pretty present he made her the other day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
To this end that Syrian Phyresides, Pythagoras his master, broached in the East amongst the heathens, first the immortality of the soul, as Trismegistus did in Egypt, with a many of feigned gods.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
True, on returning from abroad, Paul had paid Nikolai a visit with the intention of staying with him for a couple of months, as a congratulatory compliment on his happiness; but the visit had lasted a week only, since the difference in the position of the two brothers had been too great, and even now, though that difference had diminished somewhat, owing to the fact that Nikolai Petrovitch had lost his wife, and Paul Petrovitch his memories (after the Princess's death he made it his rule to try and forget her)—even now, I say, there existed the difference that, whereas Nikolai Petrovitch could look back upon a life well spent, and had a son rising to manhood, Paul Petrovitch was still a lonely bachelor, and, moreover, entering upon that dim, murky period when regrets come to resemble hopes, and hopes are beginning to resemble regrets, and youth is fled, and old age is fast approaching.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Buffeted, beaten down, delivered by popular Petion, he might well answer bitterly: "And I too, Monsieur, have been carried on the People's shoulders."
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
I looked sternly at my friend while I thus addressed him; for, to say the truth, I felt particularly puzzled, and when a man is particularly puzzled he must knit his brows and look savage, or else he is pretty sure to look like a fool.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe
ek tou peripatou philosophous, hois mêden hôn Erasistratos hypelambanen areskei.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Had good Stutely's master but known how his man was compassed about with perils, perchance he might send succor to bring him out of the hand of his enemies.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Ainsy pourras plus hault monter.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley
Hart patiently placed his men, first giving his instructions to the campmasters, and then remaining silent, while they placed the individuals.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan
And that this man had robbed the poor Tartar girl, Mr. Van Torp had no manner of doubt; and he believed that he had probably promised her marriage and abandoned her; and if this were true, to help her to find Kralinsky was in itself a good action.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
I am longing, for a double reason, to see Vitrimont and Gerbéviller and Lunéville, since I've learned that at one of those places Paul Herter may appear.
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
At Christmas-time, in the last days of 1491, the impatient Marchesana had written to remind him that she had never yet received the eclogue which he had promised to send her at her brother Alfonso's wedding, and refused to be put off with any other verses, saying that his poems pleased her more than those of any living bard.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright
Thus, questions of provisions, public health, monopoly, speculation, regulations for the prevention of fraud, and the protection of apprentices, one by one came under the jurisdiction of parlements , ministers, governors, and of their delegates.
— from Guilds in the Middle Ages by Georges François Renard
Just like his poor papa, he makes a long face if his supper is cold, but not once does he come up on time."
— from Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
Popular periodicals have multiplied; and several important theological reviews have been started in England and America, notably the Critical Review , the Hibbert Journal , and the American Journal of Theology .
— from The Expositor's Bible: Index by S. G. (Samuel Gardiner) Ayres
On his return, the London and provincial papers had many paragraphs respecting this visit, his reception, and his life; to amend the errors of which statements, I must have been writing one at the very hour of his death; for I had not time to stop its insertion in one of the Shrewsbury papers, when I received a short, but most affectionate and affecting letter from his son, informing me, 'as his father's most valued friend,' that he expired, in full possession of his fine and powerful mental faculties, in quiet and cheerful resignation, on the 8th of November, 1828, in the 76th year of his age.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 557, July 14, 1832 by Various
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